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Large MINI contingent at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge // Dakar winner Joan “Nani” Roma starts in the MINI ALL4 Racing.
Wed Mar 26 16:27:05 CET 2014 Press Release
The FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies is in full swing. The next great challenge on the race calendar, the third, comes in the form of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, from 6th to 10th April – the 4th rally of the year. MINI and the Monster Energy X-raid Team travel to the third round of the 2014 season looking to build on solid recent results.
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26th March 2014.
Large MINI contingent at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge //
Dakar winner Joan “Nani” Roma starts in the MINI ALL4 Racing
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Munich (DE). The FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies is in full
swing. The next great challenge on the race calendar, the third, comes
in the form of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, from 6th to 10th April
– the 4th rally of the year. MINI and the Monster Energy X-raid Team
travel to the third round of the 2014 season looking to build on solid
recent results.
In the 2nd round of the championship, the Baja Russia, local
favourite Vladimir Vasilyev finished second in the MINI ALL4 Racing,
which is based on the MINI John Cooper Works Countryman and fourth at
the 3rd round, the Baja Italy. His young team-mate Martin Kaczmarski
(PL) came home fourth and fifth.
There will be a much larger contingent of MINI ALL4 Racings on
display in Abu Dhabi. The X-raid team will run six cars in the desert.
Among the drivers in action is Dakar winner Joan “Nani” Roma (ES), who
returns to the cockpit for the first time since his triumph at the
toughest rally in the world back in January of this year. The Spaniard
arrives as defending champion, having won last year’s Desert Challenge.
The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge was first held in 1991. This
year’s demanding route takes the competitors on a 2,015.8-kilometre
trek through the desert. The conditions are very similar to those
encountered at the Dakar Rally: fine desert sand, in which the cars
can easily become stuck. This season, the MINI ALL4 Racing has already
proven on more than one occasion that it can reliably, and seemingly
effortlessly, overcome these extreme conditions.
MINI drivers at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.
#302 MINI ALL4 Racing.
Monster Energy X-raid Team
Joan “Nani” Roma/Michel Périn (ES/FR)
#303 MINI ALL4 Racing.
X-raid Team
Vladimir Vasilyev/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RU/RU)
#306 MINI ALL4 Racing.
X-raid Team
Erik Van Loon/Wouter Rosegaar (NL/NL)
#308 MINI ALL4 Racing.
X-raid Team
Martin Kaczmarski/Filipe Palmeiro (PL/PT)
#309 MINI ALL4 Racing.
X-raid Team
Stefan Schott/Andreas Schulz (DE/DE).
#311 MINI ALL4 Racing.
X-raid Team
Aidyn Rakhimbayev/Anton Nikolaev (KZ/RU)
FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies, race calendar:
14.02. – 16.02. Baja Russia
13.03. – 16.03. Baja Italy
06.04. – 10.04. Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge
20.04. – 25.04.
Cross Country Rally Qatar
18.05. – 25.05. Pharaons Rally
Egypt
18.07. – 20.07. Baja Aragon
14.08. – 17.08. Baja
Hungary
28.08. – 30.08. Baja Poland
03.10. – 09.10. Rally
Morocco
30.10. – 02.11. Baja Portugal
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