Cross-Country Rallies

With just a few weeks to go until the highlight of the season 2013, Jordi Viladoms causes a major surprise in the rally scene. The Catalan changes the team and has decided to enter the upcoming Rally Dakar aboard a Husqvarna TE449 prepared by Speedbrain. World championship runner-up Viladoms will not be part of the official Husqvarna Rallyeteam by Speedbrain, but being the elite rider he is, he ...

Cyril Despres (KTM 450 Factory No. 2), on his KTM, took the victory at Morocco rally at the end of six days of racing and more than 2,000 kilometres. Big blue skies greeted the finish line of the OiLibya Rally of Morocco, the backdrop: the beautiful dunes of Tinfou. He’d left in eighth place after losing a lot of time yesterday, but Cyril Despres (KTM 450 Factory No. 2) perfectly managed his tim...

Husqvarna Speedbrain Joan Barreda was happy with his second place overall at Morocco rally on Saturday. Paulo Goncalves and Matt Fish put in noteworthy performances too finishing in fifth and eighth respectively. This result for the Husqvarna Rallye Team By Speedbrain is all the more notable for the high turn-out of top riders who participated and for the particularly taxing course. Joan Barreda p...

The erg of Cheggaga was the setting for the 4th stage of the OiLibia Rally of Morocco. The organizers proposed to tackle it by the more unknown side ... Jakub Przygonski (KTM 450 No. 6) and Krzysztof Holowczyc (Mini All4Racing No 303) came out first as it was the Poles who best dealt with this stage a very demanding one for both men and machines.The finish line was swept by an intense sandstorm, i...

Great disappointment for Rodrigues, forced to stop when he was leading the SS4. Amazing top 3 finish for Zanol, with fellow TEAM HRC Sunderland 7th, Pizzolito 13th and Campbell 18th. Team HRC rider Helder Rodrigues’ stage stopped at km 58 today when he was opening the track with an 11 minute margin when his Honda CRF 450 Rally developed a fuel problem.The Portuguese rider began today with an 11-m...

This third stage of the Oilibia rally of Morocco, linking Erfoud to Zagora, was indeed full of surprises. In the car category the best performance of the day came down to Vigouroux and Winocq in their Trophy Truck n°308, winners of the special just ahead of the Brazilian team: Spinelli and Haddad (Mitsubishi n°309). In the bike category to days special was won by Paulo Goncalves (Husqvarna 450 n°5...

Stage 3 Wednesday 17th October 2012On a day that saw temperatures in the desert hitting 42°C, TEAM HRC Helder Rodrigues finished on top of the overall rankings after a long and demanding 291 km stage. Starting third, Helder Rodrigues pushed hard to catch Coma, but was navigating alone when he  saw a badly damaged bike in an open “piste” with camel grass. He stopped to assist Marc, who had inj...

Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain won their first stage victory on the TE449RR in the Morocco Rally. Paulo Goncalves, the team’s Portuguese rider, took the Erfoud to Zagora stage that featured 291 km (182 miles) of special test. Goncalves finished just three seconds ahead of rival Rodrigues. A great performance too from Joan Barreda who came in fourth in the stage and now sits in third in the ov...

After Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Sardinia, it was the Pharaons Rally in Egypt where Camelia celebrated her fourth consecutive win of the Cross Country Rally World Champion in the women moto-quad category. At the “Pharaons Rally”, Camelia climbed to the third position in the overall quad-bike category and took the victory in the ladies category.Four podiums in five participations in the Egyptian desert t...

The “Baja Morocco”, first event of its kind organized on African soil, ended in triumph today, not far from Erfoud. After a second leg spread over 200 km, including 163 Km on the clock, all competitors still racing celebrated in style. For some, an FIM World title in the Baja World Cup.Dominating from the start, the Italian Alessandro Zanotti (TM 450 No. 101) delivered once again a royal performan...