Saeed swept his hand across the desolate landscape in front of us, the dusky skin of his fingers pointing towards the barely discernible horizon. “This is an old land,” he said. “So old that the sand is the bones of stones.” He was right. Hardly...
We were winding up to a thrilling final of both the 30th edition of the Pharaons Rally as well as the 2012 World Cup but it seems that both have been descided thanks to a routine inspection of the Sonangol Buggy. A FIA technical steward found that the restrictor...
The organisers said that the hardest stage was over and that today's would be the most beautiful. “Pretty?” Jean-Louis Schesser scoffed. “It was too hard to be pretty. Much harder even than yesterday!” And Kalifa Al-Mutaiwei would probably agree...
The battery problem that put Jean-Louis Schlesser on the back foot on Day 1 meant that basically his options were limited to going flat out for the rest of the rally. Yesterday's leg saw him do just that, taking a huge 16 minutes back from World Cup rival...
Dubai’s Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei and German co-driver Andreas Schulz were on track to extend their advantage over arch rival Jean-Louis Schlesser in the Pharoahs International Cross-Country Rally at the fourth passage control of the third selective section...
After loosing some 20 minutes with a technical problem yesterday there was only one thing that Jean-Louis Schlesser could do today and that was to go flat out... and with a time almost 10 minutes faster than anyone else that's exactly what he did. “All...
I don't know what the requirements for being able to call an event a legend, but I think the Pharoans Rally should be on the list as it is older than some of the competitors. Held in the empty wastes of Egypt the event is now in it's 30th year! The start...
Dubai’s Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei and German co-driver Andreas Schulz continued to lead the Pharaon's International Cross-Country Rally in the Egyptian desert after the second 344km Tibniya loop stage on Tuesday. The Fazza Rally Team star began the second...
