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As the SA Rally-Raid Championship heads to Vryheid for its penultimate round of the VAPS HCV Vryheid 400, few names command as much respect in the paddock as Giniel de Villiers. A Dakar winner, multiple South African champion, and one of the most consistent drivers in off-road racing, he has long been the benchmark for […]

Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa (TGRSA) kicked off the 2024 South African Rally-Raid Championship (SARRC) with an impressive start, securing the top two spots at the inaugural event in Malalane, Mpumalanga. Leading the charge was the duo of Giniel de Villiers and his co-driver Elvene Vonk, who claimed victory while their teammates Guy Botterill and […]

Giniel de Villiers and Dennis Murphy brought their GR IMT Hilux EVO T1+ home in the 9th-fastest time on Stage 8 of Dakar 2024. The 2009 winner of the Dakar Rally and his co-driver had a clean run, only relinquishing time to the stage winners in a rough section near the finish, where they opted […]

PARYS, FREE STATE – A second-place finish in the final round of the 2022 South African Rally-Raid Championship (SARRC) was enough for veteran racer Giniel de Villiers to win his

[fusion_text]It was third time unlucky for Toyota’s number 1 rally driver Leeroy Poulter, but third time luck for the Castrol team’s Dakar hero Giniel de Villiers in the Secunda Motor Rally held in Mpumalanga this weekend. [youtube id=”PJ3fWt9WKr0″ width=”100%” height=”60%” autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””]

Defending Donaldson Cross-Country champions, Castrol Team Toyota’s Anthony Taylor and Dennis Murphy, are fully prepared to tackle 2015 season. The pair have tested the new specification Toyota Hilux race vehicle, which is based on the vehicle that saw Giniel de Villiers and German co-driver Dirk von Zitzewitz finish second in this year’s grueling Dakar Rally, […]

The joy knows no bounds and the relief is equally tangible: Giniel de Villiers and his co-driver Dirk von Zitzewitz have done it. They completed the 9,000 kilometres of the 2015 Dakar Rally and finished runners-up in the toughest rally in the world. For just under two weeks, the South African-German duo faced numerous challenges.

Second place for de Villiers and von Zitzewitz leads strong Toyota performance Toyota was back on the podium at the climax of the 2015 Dakar cross-country race with Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz claiming a superb second place result in their Toyota Imperial Hilux.

SOLID STAGE FOR DE VILLIERS/VON ZITZEWITZ, AS TEAM ORDERS HOLD BACK POULTER/HOWIE TERMAS DE RIO HONDO – Stage 11 of the 2015 Dakar was marked by yet another solid performance by the Toyota Imperial SA Dakar Team’s ‘mister consistency’, Giniel de Villiers. Partnered by long-standing German navigator the Dakar veteran from Paarl posted the 3rd-fastest […]

POULTER/HOWIE IMPRESSES, AS DE VILLIERS/VON ZITZEWITZ CONSOLIDATES SALTA – Another day on the Dakar, another crossing of the Andes… Stage 10 saw the crews move from the dustbowl of Calama in Chile, across the Andes and down to the lush forests of Salta in Argentina. Along the way they also competed in a testing, 358 […]