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2019 Cross-Country Rally Season: Global schedule again for X-raid MINI

Feb 06, 2019


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Reorganisation of FIA World Cup
Kuba Przygonski out to defend his title

Just a few weeks after the Rally Dakar, the X-raid team is preparing for the start of the 2019 cross-country rally season. First up is the Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally (20.-26.02.2019) in Qatar at the end of February. Jakub “Kuba” Przygonski (POL), reigning champion in the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies, will start in a MINI John Cooper Works Rally, as he looks to get his title defence off to a successful start. He will be joined in the cockpit by Timo Gottschalk. The German won the Dakar Rally as Nasser Al-Attiyah’s navigator in 2011. Last year, he started alongside Yazeed Al-Rajhi.

Reorganisation of FIA World Cup
The FIA has made a number of organisational changes for this year and is now running two world cups: one for cross-country rallies, featuring five events, and one for cross-country bajas, with eight events. This division is not a new phenomenon, as the two competitions were clubbed together prior to 2011. The main differences between rallies and bajas are the number of days that the events last, and the number of kilometres against the clock. Cross-country rallies must feature at least 1,200 kilometres of special stage (up to a maximum 3,000 km) and must not last longer than eight days. Bajas are between 600 and 1,000 kilometres long and last two to three days. X-raid has won the World Cup eleven times, with two of these victories coming in the World Cup for Bajas.

Other races on the X-raid calendar
As well as the FIA races, the schedule for the X-raid team also includes other cross-country events in 2019. One of the highlights of the season is the Silk Way Rally, which this year takes competitors through Russia, Mongolia and China. The dates for the rallies in the Dakar Series are still largely unknown.

The events, at which X-raid will start with the MINI JCW Buggy and MINI JCW Rally, will be announced in good time ahead of the respective rallies.

World Cup victories with X-raid cars:

-Cross Country Baja World Cup-
2004 Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei / Alain Guehennec BMW X5CC
2008 Nasser Al-Attiyah / Mathieu Baumel / Tina Thörner BMW X3CC
-Cross Country Rally World Cup-
2008 Nasser Al-Attiyah / Mathieu Baumel / Tina Thörner BMW X3CC
2009 Guerlain Chicherit / Mathieu Baumel BMW X3CC
2010 Leonid Novitskiy / Oleg Tyupenkin BMW X3CC
2011 Leonid Novitskiy / Oleg Tyupenkin MINI ALL4 Racing
2012 Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei / Andreas Schulz MINI ALL4 Racing
2013 Krzysztof Holowczyc / Andreas Schulz MINI ALL4 Racing
2014 Vladimir Vasilyev / Konstantin Zhiltsov MINI ALL4 Racing
2015 Nasser Al-Attiyah / Mathieu Baumel MINI ALL4 Racing
2018 Kuba Przygonski / Tom Colsoul MINI John Cooper Works Rally
2019 FIA Cross Country World Cup Calendar

2019 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies
21. – 26. February Manateq Cross Country Rally Qatar
30. März – 04. April Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge UAE
05. – 11. May Turkmen Desert Race Turkmenistan
26. Mai – 01. June Rally Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
04. – 08. October Rallye du Maroc Morocco
FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas
14. – 17. February Manateq Cross Country Rally Qatar
07. – 09. March Dubai Baja UAE
20. – 23. June Italian Baja Italy
25. – 28. July Baja España Aragón Spain
08. – 11. August Hungarian Baja Hungary
29. August – 1. September Baja Poland Poland
19. – 21. September Jordan Baja Jordan
24. – 26. October Baja Portalegre Portugal


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