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Solberg Secures Debut Podium Finish for Ford

24/1/2012
Ford World Rally Team’s Petter Solberg and Chris Patterson clinched their first podium at the wheel of a Ford Fiesta RS WRC after an exceptional performance on the Rallye Monte-Carlo.

What's more, the Norwegian, returning to the Ford camp for the first time since 2000, celebrated a personal best with third place at the iconic event.

Rejoining the FIA World Rally Championship calendar for the first time since 2008, Rallye Monte-Carlo provided the WRC crews with five gruelling days of competition covering more than 433km. It has been the longest WRC event since Kenya’s Safari Rally in 2002, and was primarily based in Valence before relocating south to the glamorous Principality of Monaco on the French Riviera.

HiLux podium at Dakar

18/1/2012
Toyota HiLux has completed a dream run in the world's toughest off-road race, achieving a podium finish in the 2012 Dakar rally.

The double-cab petrol HiLux clinched third spot in the gruelling endurance event after two weeks of competition in the wilds of Argentina, Chile and Peru.

Dakar is the ultimate endurance test with this year's rally covering 8,300km, including 4,200km of special competitive stages through some of the toughest terrain in the world.

Frosty bounces back from break

16/1/2012
Ford Performance Racing’s (FPR) Mark Winterbottom is recovering quickly from a broken tibia sustained over the Christmas break and is scheduled to participate in V8 Supercars’ official pre-season test at Sandown on Saturday, 11 February.

Winterbottom broke the base of his left tibia – near his ankle joint – while water skiing two days before New Years Eve.

With assistance from V8 Supercars Medical Delegate, Dr Carl Le, he was successfully operated on and had two screws inserted into the break.