Following the recent sequence of five consecutive wins with team boss Jean-Louis Schlesser at the wheel, it was another BFGoodrich-equipped Buggy Schlesser which came out on top in the Tunisian sand this week

Following the cancellation of last January's Dakar, competitors drawn by the wide opens spaces of northern Africa are lining up for the opening round of the 2008 FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup

The drama-packed 2007 UAE Desert Challenge saw Mitsubishi/BFGoodrich's Stéphane Peterhansel collect his fourth win in the United Arab Emirates

All the leading cross-country rally teams (Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, BMW, Schlesser, etc.) and most of the potential winners of next year's Dakar will join battle in the desert of the United Arab Emirates next week for the last showdown before January's trans-Saharan marathon

The 2007 Rallye Maroc, fourth round of the FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup, boiled down to a duel between Volkswagen/BFGoodrich team-mates Carlos Sainz and Giniel de Villiers

After skipping the recent Rally Por Las Pampas in South America, the Volkswagen/BFGoodrich team will be out in strength for this week's Rallye Maroc, fourth round of the 2007 FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup

Mitsubishi Pajero/BFGoodrich's Luc Alphand and his co-driver Gilles Picard claimed their second consecutive win on the Por Las Pampas Rally, round three of the 2007 FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup

The Rally Por Las Pampas is the third round of the 2007 FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup and takes competitors from southern Argentina to the northern tip of Chile via a route totalling 4,116km in length