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Winners emerge as 2016 BMW Golf Championship ends in style

  Tunji Adebayo has emerged the overall winner of the just-concluded 2016 BMW Golf National championship hosted by Coscharis Motors at the Lakowe Lake Golf Club in Lagos. Though Adebayo came third in the Men’s Category 1, he achieved a gross 79 Nett  to emerge the overall winner and therefore will ...

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Daniel Rowe wins first national title for Volkswagen Motorsport

Daniel Rowe and his Volkswagen Motorsport Golf GTI last Saturday won the Sasol GTC Africa Production title  at a very unpredictable Zwartkops Raceway event in South Africa . Rowe, a dominant presence in the GTC Production category since round one,  continued with that form, winning both GTC Production races on ...

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Coscharis Motors set for BMW Golf Cup National Final

Coscharis Motors said it would play host to the BMW Golf Cup International Tournament on December 2  at the Lakowe Lakes Golf Club in Lagos. The tournament, according to the company,  is the National Final to qualify the Nigerian market for the World Final in Dubai next year. It said ...

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New Porsche 911 RSR for Le Mans

  Porsche said it would tackle the 2017 racing season with a completely re-developed GT racer. The company stated this in a statement issued Wednesday in Dubai. The new 911 RSR, which Porsche described as the most spectacular 911 ever, makes full use of the breadth of the Le Mans 24 ...

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Mike Horn prepares for the longest leg of Pole2Pole expedition

Mike Horn is set to begin the longest leg of his Pole2Pole expedition with the crossing of the Antarctica continent. By ski and with the help of a kite weather permitting, Mike will cover roughly over 7,000 km until he reaches the other side of the continent, the South Pole ...

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Volvo reaffirms commitment to Nedbank Golf Challenge

  Volvo Car South Africa has reaffirmed its partnership with the Nedbank Golf Challenge, which held at the world-famous Gary Player golf course at Sun City from Nov. 10-13. The golfing spectacular, which is in its 15th year and attracts top golfers from all over the world, is Volvo Car ...

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Double Podium for Toyota GAZOO Racing

  Toyota GAZOO Racing returned to the podium with second and third place finishes in the 6 Hours of Shanghai, the penultimate race of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. The #6 TS050 Hybrid of Stéphane Sarrazin, Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi recovered from the misfortune of two ...

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HondaJet sets two speed records

Honda Aircraft Company said its HondaJet has officially set two speed records over two recognised courses from Teterboro, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Boston, Massachusetts to Palm Beach, Florida. Pilots Peter Kriegler and Glenn Gonzales took the HondaJet on both flights. A statement from the company said the ...

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Toyota launches new premium sports cruiser

  Toyota Motor Corporation has launched a new boat, the Ponam-28V, which will be sold through a network of 50 companies in Japan. The premium sports cruiser is a next-generation hull that combines three structural components―FRP, aluminum, and carbon fibers, to achieve a new sense of riding comfort, high rigidity, ...

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Shanghai Showdown for Toyota GAZOO Racing

  Toyota GAZOO Racing heads to China in a positive mood for the penultimate race of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the 6 Hours of Shanghai at the Shanghai International Circuit. Victory in the last race, on Toyota’s home ground at Fuji Speedway, enhanced the position of Stéphane ...

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