2021 Toyota Mark X Specs.

For the aboriginal time in about three decades, off-road racing’s best iconic annular won’t booty abode in Botswana.

For bounded off alley racers, the year’s highlight will access in the Northern Cape Province’s Upington breadth this weekend.

The break will be the Toyota Gazoo Antagonism South Africa 1000 Desert Race, annular three of the 2021 South African Cross Country Series. The event, over three canicule and about 1 000 km on 18, 19 and 20 June, will avowal a badly aggressive acreage in the Production Agent category.

Topping the access account will be four Toyota Gazoo Antagonism Hilux bakkies, manned by arresting champions Henk Lategan/Brett Cummings, Giniel de Villiers/Dennis Murphy, Shameer Variawa/Danie Stassen and assemblage aces Guy Botterill/Simon Vacy-Lyle.

The aggregation will affection a new petrol-powered 3.5-litre turbocharged V6 agent in one of their new bearing Toyota Hilux antagonism anatomy – it is yet ambiguous who will be abaft the caster of this vehicle.

Brian Baragwanath/ Leonard Cremer (Century Antagonism CR6) should be able of a top-five finish. Picture: Nadia Jordaan.

The desert-like altitude will be a aboriginal for the new Ford Castrol Cross Country Rangers, in the easily of Lance Woolridge/Elvéne Vonk and Gareth Woolridge/Boyd Dreyer. Others to watch in the arch FIA chic should accommodate Chris Visser/Albertus Venter (Toyota Hilux), Brian Baragwanath/Leonard Cremer (Century Antagonism CR6) and Mark Corbett/Rodney Burke (Century Antagonism CR6).

Team Red-Lined Motorsport’s V8 Nissan Navaras will be piloted by Ernest Roberts/Henry Köhne, Conrad Rautenbach/ Riaan Greyling, Eben Basson/