Norbert Kiss may be the only Hungarian driver on the FIA European Truck Racing Championship grid this year, but there is another driver, reigning British series champion Ryan Smith, who treats the Hungaroring as his surrogate home venue. “This is a home race. The team is Hungarian and this circuit for me is the best on […]
Hino Team Sugawara has announced that it will be entering two HINO500 Series trucks in the trucks category in Dakar Rally 2018 which will be held from Jan. 6 thru 20, 2018 in Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Having been participating in the race for more than quarter of a century since becoming the first Japanese […]
All pictures here provided by Bertram Tuah, Geoffrey Lee and Paul Si Article by PAUL SI If you are from the Malaysian Peninsula you will think Sabah and Sarawak (which is part of Malaysia and situated on the island of Borneo) is just like small town Peninsula and the way of life, very similar. Well, […]
Since 2003 more than 350,000 truck drivers in nearly 50 countries have participated in Scania Driver Competitions (SDC) – the world’s largest truck and bus driving event – that focuses on increasing road-safety awareness, improving fuel consumption and minimising the environmental impact of commercial vehicles. The final driving skills round of the inaugural SDC Southeast […]
Starting from June 2017 and for the next three years, IVECO will be the official supplier of heavy-duty logistics vehicles for the Abarth racing division, and will supply the team with two trucks, a Stralis XP and a Eurocargo. The first will be destined for the Abarth Selenia Trophy, which is run on the race […]
Gerard de Rooy places the PETRONAS De Rooy IVECO Team and his #500 IVECO Powerstar in third place at the 2017 Dakar Rally having driven almost 9,000 km across South America’s most difficult roads. Gerard de Rooy, the PETRONAS De Rooy IVECO team leader and winner of the 2012 and 2016 Dakar rallies with IVECO, […]
When the road ahead takes you nearly 10,000km through some of the harshest terrain on the planet you’d better come prepared. 1. The Dakar Rally is almost as long as an entire World Rally Championship season The Dakar Rally is classified as a Rally Raid event, which means it’s a long-distance event that takes place […]
The Borneo Safari, held annually in Sabah over the past 26 years, is widely acknowledged as one of the toughest off-road vehicle event in Malaysia. Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) was no stranger to the Borneo Safari, having entered a fifth-generation Triton in last year’s event, which was also the 25th Anniversary edition of the Borneo […]
Isuzu Malaysia Sdn Bhd marked the 10th consecutive year of its sponsorship of and participation in Borneo Safari with a four vehicle media team. The seven-seater Isuzu mu-X Monster is making its debut accompanied by three ‘Borneo Safari-proven’ Isuzu D-Max Monsters. The vehicles, carrying 12 invited members of the media from Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, […]
Congratulations Adam Bint on securing the 2016 BTRA British Truck Racing Championship (Division 2) at a wet and wild Pembrey meeting (October 15/16). Adam took the CMG Volvo White to two more wins plus one second, one third and a fourth in atrocious conditions to outscore his nearest challenger, John Powell. Binty leaves Pembrey with a […]
