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Video: Martin Kolomy /Buggyra on Dakar 2015 – Stage 4 (Chilecito – Copiapo)
Jan 7th: Chilecito > Copiapo.
The competitors will have to prove they are worthy of entering Chile! A very early start and a climb to a height of 4,800 metres will precede the border crossing at Paso San Francisco. The really challenging section will begin with a gradual warm-up on the mining tracks, before drivers are faced with the reality [...]
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Tatra feature in the February 2014 edition of Classic & Sports Car magazine, out today
Tatra. Andrew Roberts becomes well acquainted with four of the firm’s finest exports, a T87, T603 and brace of T613s, charting the models’ development from 1936 through to 1995. Each of these rear-engined leviathans boasts a thumping air-cooled V8 engine, but which is the more dynamic to drive? Dave Richards puts his foot down to [...]
JAN 6th: SAN JUAN > CHILECITO. MARDEEEV (KAMAZ) STORMS TO VICTORY AND IS NOW IN OVERALL COMMAND
The pressure endured by the competitors yesterday, to a very late hour for some, will drop a notch on the route to Chilecito. The decrease in mileage and intensity will allow the competitors to enjoy the majestic landscape. The red earthen tracks overlooking cliffs or plunging into canyons will take the Dakar to the heart [...]
JANUARY 5TH – DAKAR STAGE 2 – 625KM Villa Carlos Paz-San Juan
The fast but short stage 1 was succeeded by the longest stage of the Dakar. Any rest will be short-lived, because before reaching San Juan, the competitors will have a particularly busy schedule: quite simply the longest special stage in the rally, which is varied enough to unsettle even the most experienced of drivers. Hard [...]
Video: Best Tatra driver so far Martin Kolomy comments on Stage 1
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TATRAS 4th, 13th, 21st, 32nd, 37th and 45th in DAKAR’s FIRST 144 km LONG STAGE
The competitors will be rapidly plunged into the heart of the Argentinean countryside. The combination of the route’s different features means that there will be something for everyone, while sticking to relatively simple criteria, for the time being. Fast tracks coupled with sharp bends will divide up the vehicles, according to the levels of the [...]
Ales Loprais comments on Tatra-MAN switch for the 2015 Dakar
For his 9th Dakar, Ales Loprais is perhaps at a turning point in his career. Although there has not really been a falling-out with the Tatra brand that has shaped his family’s long history (6 Dakars won by his uncle Karel), the most consistent Czech driver of the modern era will be taking starter’s orders [...]
Tatragate India: Tatra ban lifted
NEW DELHI: The government is open to reviewing cases of blacklisted defence firms on merit as it prepares a new policy that will allow foreign defence firms to legally hire agents, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said.
He added that banned firms can be conditionally allowed to do business in the country. “Based on merit and [...]