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For the third consecutive time, Camelia Liparoti becomes the FIM Women´s  Cross Country Rally World Cup winner on Yamaha. The French-Italian quad rider knows this new title means no rest as she prepares her participation in Dakar 2012 and other surprises. Camelia Liparoti had a very busy year in 2011, but this didn´t push her away from the Cross Country Rally World Champi...

The winner of the 2009 World Quad Championship for Women, Camelia Liparoti, also finished in second position in the overall quad classification. Now, the Italian is looking towards the Dakar.  A challenge which she sees as an opportunity to get her revenge. Having failed to finish on the podium in the 2009 edition, she is quite determined to remedy that situation in January 2010… The field is...

After the Dakar 2009 in Argentina, Camelia Liparoti has launched herself into the Cross-Country Rally World Championship (ex Rally-Raid) on her quadbike KTM 525 XC. She is battling for the title in the Female motorbike-quadbike category and for a podium position in the the overall quadbike scratch category." This year, the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge has opened the World Championship. This has...

The last stage, run in the form of two loops around Nefta, allowed Cyril Despres to pull away from his rivals and take his 3rd OiLibya de Tunisie ahead of Marc Coma, a little ‘lost’ first time around. The battle for the third place between the Spaniard Jordi Viladoms and ‘Chaleco’ Lopez finally went in favour of the Chilean for just 13 seconds – incredible after 11 days of racing… In the 450 class...

The third stage between Oued Mellah and Ras el Oued gave the competitors the chance to let rip over a varied 365 km special of sandy pistes, bumpy going and compressions. An African timed section which both motorcycle and car drivers seemed to unanimously appreciate. In the bike class the overall changes, with Cyril Despres taking the lead by just over 2 minutes on Marc Coma and a little more than...

The sun shone on the second stage taking the competitors from Tunis to Oued Mellah… The 60 km of special stage posed few problems, just the occasional close encounters with some cactus for a few and a problematic deviation for the lead riders. Finally, in the bike class Marc Coma took the victory ahead of David Casteu and Francisco ‘Chaleco’ Lopez. In the cars the BMWs chased each other. After Gue...

Spain’s Marc Coma regained the overall lead in the motorcycle category of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge 2009, as surviving crews completed the fourth Hertz loop stage through the emirate’s Empty Quarter to the south and east of Humeem, on Thursday.Coma caught his great French rival Cyril Despres in the desert and the pair raced together to the finish of the penultimate stage of the UAE’s premier ...

TAL MUREEB, ABU DHABI (UAE): BMW X-raid’s Guerlain Chicherit and Spaniard Marc Coma controlled proceedings at the end of a punishing 296.75-km desert loop stage of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, around the Tal Mureeb bivouac in Abu Dhabi, on Tuesday. Coma sped past four-time champion Cyril Despres to hold an unofficial lead of 1m 25s in the motorcycle section at the end of the second of five le...