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• Senegalese Authorities Deport Mauritanian Terror Suspect

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Senegalese authorities have deported back to Nouakchott the Mauritanian citizen Taleb Ould Ahmednah. Ould Ahmednah is accused of being a member of the Al Qaeda wing in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). He was arrested two months ago in Dakar where he was questioned by local authorities about his false papers. In the ...
  12 hours ago

• COOPER TIRE BACKS TOYOTA DAKAR RALLY SQUAD

  
  European Motor News — Authority: 148
  Cooper Tire Europe will compete in next year’s Dakar Rally after sealing an agreement with Dakar veteran, Spaniard Xavier Foj.
  1 day ago

• Volkswagen entering five Race Touaregs in 2010 Dakar Rally

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 580
  Volkswagen will again seek to be the champion at next year’s Dakar Rally and will be entering five Race Touaregs. VW won the rally last year with its Touareg rally concept, which is powered by a 2.5-litre TDI that outputs 276bhp. The car topped the timesheets in 10 of the 13 stages to claim a [...]
  2 days ago

• Team x-raid wins Baja Portalegre 2009

  
  Puro Off Road — Authority: 114
  Baja 500 Portalegre 28th October to 1st November 2009 – Team X-Raid / Yser Racing Team driver Filipe Campos and Jaime Baptista piloting a BMW X3CC are the winners of the Baja Portalegre 2009 This win gives Filipe Campos the Iberico Trophy for 2009 and makes him the Portuguese champion for 2009 season. Additional ...
  5 days ago

• Five Race Touareg at 2010 Dakar

  
  Puro Off Road — Authority: 114
  It is truly a five-star line-up: Volkswagen will field five Race Touareg vehicles at the 2010 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile. The Wolfsburg-based automobile manufacturer has signed the Brazilians Maurício Neves and Clécio Maestrelli as another driver/co-driver team alongside the previously confirmed pairings ...
  6 days ago

• Chinese Carmakers Prepping For 2010 Dakar Rally [Racing News]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 736
  Given never ending concerns over Chinese quality, completing the punishing cross-continental Dakar Rally could send the right message. Both Greatwall and Geely are planning to enter the race as a proof-of-competency in vehicles that at least look like Pajeros. [ ChinaCarTimes ]
  6 days ago

• Volkswagen to field five Race Touareg vehicles at 2010 “Dakar”

  
  oneighturbo.com — Authority: 439
  57 days until the 2010 Dakar RallyIt is truly a five-star line-up: Volkswagen will field five Race Touareg vehicles at the 2010 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile.The Wolfsburg-based automobile manufacturer has signed the Brazilians Maurício Neves and Clécio Maestrelli as another driver/co-driver team alongside the ...
  6 days ago

• LEGENDS DRIVE VOLKSWAGEN SCIROCCOS AT RACE OF CHAMPIONS

  
  European Motor News — Authority: 148
  The biggest names from the world of motorsport, including Volkswagen factory driver and Dakar Rally winner Giniel de Villiers and Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button, lined up on the grid in motorsport prepared versions of the Volkswagen Scirocco at this year’s Race of Champions in Beijing, to battle it out for ...
  1 week ago

• Sayonara Toyota

  
  vee8 — Authority: 130
  The day after Bridgestone announced that they would be leaving Formula 1 , it emerged that Toyota were poised to do the same. This was not as much of a shock as Bridgestone’s exit, but it is nonetheless major news. Toyota are the third major manufacturer to leave F1 in just twelve months, and now rumours furiously ...
  1 week ago

• Robby Gordon Off-Road Dakar Hummer revealed

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 580
  No off-road race is too grueling for HUMMER and Robby Gordon Off-road. They have teamed up one more time to take on the 2010 Dakar Rally, which is known for its brutal terrain and extreme environmental conditions. Team HUMMER will have Gordon lead it from behind the wheel of his HUMMER H3 race truck.Gordon is [...]
  1 week ago

• HONDA PARTNERS WITH DAKAR LEGEND FOR NEW OFF-ROAD EXPERIENCE

  
  European Motor News — Authority: 148
  Honda (UK) Motorcycles has partnered with Britain’s most successful Dakar legend, Mick Extance, to launch a new enduro and motocross experience – the Mick Extance Honda Off-Road Experience.
  1 week ago

• “Dakar” winner Giniel de Villiers competes in Race of Champions

  
  oneighturbo.com — Authority: 439
  Volkswagen driver Giniel de Villiers will compete in the Race of Champions in Beijing from November 02 to 04. The South African who won the Dakar Rally in the Race Touareg in January 2009 will contest the event together with former Formula 1 racer David Coulthard for the RoC All-Star team.‘I’m very happy about ...
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  Innobuzz Knowledge Solutions — Authority: 162
  
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• Real Hip Hop In Africa: Senegal Rocks To The Breaka Dawn!

  
  Old School Scholar Hip Hop Culture and Music — Authority: 123
  If there is a wake up call to what Hip Hop music really is and what it means to people around the world, then this is one documentary that will plainly spell it for you in Senegal, West Africa. This is an excellent video to serve as a reminder to America what Hip Hop truly is at the core to these emcees.
  2 weeks ago

• Yamahas Super Tenere art installation baffles Tokyo crowds

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  Tenere is a desert region in the south central Sahara - a place where, in 1977, Frenchman Thierry Sabine famously got lost on his motorbike for three days during the Abidjan-Nice Rally. The rest as they say is history - Sabine returned to France to create the Paris-Dakar rally and Yamahas two wheeled namesake ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quote of the Day

  
  myninjaplease — Authority: 133
  Caption: Xtreme Bboys (Senegal). Urbanation BBoy Festival. Dakar. 6/6 Break competition. July 19th, 2008. Photo via Alexandre Foulonoulon “In 2000, rappers spoke about how we could change the nation. People understood and we changed the government. Until we spoke people didn’t believe this could happen,” ...
  3 weeks ago

• THE LORD OF YAMAHA ADVENTURES

  
  European Motor News — Authority: 148
  Throughout the 80’s and 90’s, Yamaha Ténéré machines have worn their Paris-Dakar Rally heritage with pride.
  3 weeks ago

• Dakar to The Gambia with Adam

  
  STA travelbuzz — Authority: 129
  STA Explorer Cut to Africa , aka the fair mannered Adam, has made passage from Dakar to The Gambia. The trip is covered in three posts, the first documenting his last night in Les Mamelles , Dakar. Details of making friends with all sorts of locals are included as well as his thoughts on the new Radisson ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hemmings Find of the Day: 1970 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, Paris-Dakar edition

  
  Hemmings Auto Blogs — Authority: 506
  One of these has been haunting Pebble Beach for a few years, complete with a pair of externally mounted spares sunk into the trunklid. Doesn’t seem this particular Silver Shadow has that external-spare option, but it does come with racing history, having been entered in the 1981 Paris-Dakar rally. And it’s now ...
  4 weeks ago

• Geopolitics and giant goats: thoughts from a week in Dakar

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 434
  By Ilmari Soininen, KF9 UIMCEC Dakar, Senegal “ Africa lite”  is how a retired career diplomat once described Senegal to me. Glancing at a map of West Africa he may have a point. Bloody diamond-fuelled conflicts in Sierra Leone and Liberia, violent Islamic extremism in Mali and Mauritania and the recent ...
  4 weeks ago

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