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		<title>Madrid enthusiastically greets &#8220;Dakar” winner Sainz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (22 January 2010). An emotional and triumphant homecoming: His native city, Madrid, received Carlos Sainz with rounds of cheers after his &#8220;Dakar” victory. Together with his Spanish compatriot Lucas Cruz the 47-year-old had been leading a Volkswagen trio to a one-two-three win from 2 to 16 January at the toughest test in worldwide motorsport.
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		<title>Carlos Sainz: &#8220;You need goals which are worth living for&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (18 January 2010). The fulfilment of a long harboured dream: Volkswagen factory driver Carlos Sainz won the 2010 Dakar held in Argentina and Chile. In this toughest test in motorsport worldwide the charismatic Spaniard celebrated, together with his fellow countryman Lucas Cruz, his very first &#8220;Dakar” victory in the automobile category for his country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sainz and Cruz: a strong unit in the Volkswagen cockpit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (17 January 2010). Two &#8220;Dakar” winners like chalk and cheese: The Volkswagen factory duo of Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz complement one another inside and outside the cockpit to form a strong, heterogeneous unit. The two Spaniards – the driver emotional and spirited, the co-driver calm and meticulous – took the trophy to their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-areg: Volkswagen defends &#8220;Dakar&#8221; title with one-two-three</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Wolfsburg (16 January 2010). Triumphant title defence in South America: Volkswagen has won the legendary Dakar Rally for the second time in succession and including 1980 for a third time. After a ‘showdown in blue’ the Volkswagen duos and their TDI powered Race Touareg prototypes celebrated a one-two-three podium lockout at the finish of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen drivers´ duel keeps &#8220;Dakar&#8221; result open to the finish</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (15 January 2010). Two Volkswagen Race Touareg fighting for victory are keeping the 2010 Dakar Rally exciting and the result open up until the last minute: On the desert classic’s thirteenth and penultimate stage Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) took 2 minutes 32 seconds from their team mates Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E). The Spanish duo’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two times three: Volkswagen trio leads stage and overall standings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (14 January 2009). Exciting team internal duel for overall lead: Volkswagen provided an impressive example of the power and performance of its TDI technology on the twelfth and longest Dakar Rally stage: Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E) as well as Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) dominated the two-part twelfth stage, with a total of 476 kilometres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen still lead &#8211; Al-Attiyah reduces deficit to Sainz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (13 January 2010). Volkswagen defended its lead on the eleventh of the 14 stages in the Dakar Rally: The three Volkswagen Race Touareg cars continue to lead the overall standings after the second Andes crossing from Chile to Argentina. The name of the potential winner still remains wide open: The leaders Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen celebrates fifth stage win &#8211; three Race Touareg lead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (12 January 2010). The Spaniards Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E) increased their lead over their two team mates in the overall standings following the duo’s first stage victory and Volkswagen’s fifth so far this year in the 2010 Dakar Rally. Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) are now second 10 minutes 6 seconds behind the leaders, Mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One-two-three for Volkswagen &#8211; third stage win for Al-Attiyah</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (11 January 2010). Volkswagen claim first three positions on stage, three &#8220;Blues” head overall standings: The TDI diesel powered Race Touareg continued to set the benchmark on the ninth of the 14-day long 2010 Dakar Rally. Nasser Al-Attiyah and Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) claimed the day’s victory on the route between Copiapó and La Serena [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen leads Dakar Rally with three cars at mid-point</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (08 January 2010). After seven of the 14 legs of the 2010 Dakar Rally Volkswagen maintains a commanding advantage: Three Race Touareg cars with TDI power are running in front in the overall standings before the rest day. Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E) are leading the world’s toughest rally with 11m 03s ahead of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen driver Sainz extends lead at &#8220;Dakar&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (07 January 2010). Volkswagen continues leading the 2010 Dakar Rally after the sixth of 14 stages with three Race Touareg cars. Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (E/E), who had taken the lead the day before, extended their advantage in the Race Touareg from 4m 37s to 15m 24s. Their team-mates Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen trio in front: Miller with stage win, Sainz takes lead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (06 January 2010). Volkswagen took the lead on the so far longest and toughest special stage of the Dakar Rally: As many as three Race Touareg vehicles are setting the pace at the front of the field after five days, both in the stage and overall classifications. Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E) are leading the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Volkswagen drivers in the top four places</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (04 January 2010). Volkswagen continues maintaining its hold in the group of the front runners on the third leg of the Dakar Rally: Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E), Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) and Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/ZA) with their three Race Touareg cars are ranking in positions two to four at the world’s toughest desert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touareg, therapists, packet soup: The Dakar Rally in numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (29 December 2009). At the turn of the New Year the Dakar Rally spellbinds millions of people around the planet. From 1 January 2010 when the Volkswagen factory drivers Carlos Sainz, Giniel de Villiers, Mark Miller, Nasser Al-Attiyah and Maurício Neves attempt to defend the first historical diesel victory from last year during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation title defence – Volkswagen targets “Dakar” victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (28 December 2009). The greatest adventure motorsport has to offer – the biggest challenge a manufacturer can confront: Volkswagen starts the 2010 Dakar Rally with the ambitious target of bringing the coveted winner’s trophy back to Wolfsburg for a second time. Following the historical victory in January 2009 with the Race Touareg 2, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Above the clouds: five Race Touaregs on the way to the “Dakar”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (17 December 2009). Five Race Touaregs, one destination: Buenos Aires. Volkswagen has flown the rally cars for the Dakar Rally to South America. The five powerful 300 hp cross country rally prototypes for Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (ZA/D), Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E), Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/ZA), Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) and Maurício Neves/Clécio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nasser Al-Attiyah: “Volkswagen’s ‘Dakar’ win is a great help”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (12 December 2009). Volkswagen signed Nasser Al-Attiyah this year. The Arab from Qatar who won last year’s FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup contests the Dakar Rally for the first time with a factory team. The 38-year -th the Race Touareg. In parallel to this Nasser Al-Attiyah also completed a sprint rallying season and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen’s pioneering achievement in the toughest rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (09 December 2009). Thirty-one years ago on 26 December 1978 the first ever Dakar Rally started from the Place du Trocadéro. At the same time Volkswagen was busy working on direct injection technology, which the brand offers under the name TDI since 1991. Nobody would probably have expected at that time that exactly 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amarok –The Volkswagen Among Pick-Ups Launches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hannover, December 1, 2009 – With the Amarok, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is now also entering the segment of mid-range pick-ups, representing an annual market volume of two million vehicles worldwide. The Amarok is not only the fourth model series of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand, it is also the first 1-tonne class pick-up to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grande Brasile takes “Dakar” winner Volkswagen to South America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (01 December 2009). 60 tons of material, 17 support vehicles – Volkswagen’s &#8220;Dakar” crew embarked on its voyage across the Atlantic ocean to South America. The winning team of the past Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile will tackle the title defence project from 02 to 16 January 2010 by fielding five Volkswagen Race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Dakar&#8221; logistics of the Volkswagen team in detail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[36 days until the 2010 Dakar Rally	 
 	The &#8220;Dakar&#8221; logistics of the Volkswagen team in detail

Wolfsburg (27 November 2009). Project title defence: Volkswagen will again contest the famous Dakar Rally in January. One year after the triumph of the Wolfsburg-based automobile manufacturer at the debut event in Argentina and Chile – the first in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Dakar” expedition of the Volkswagen team in detail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 days until the 2010 Dakar Rally	 
 	The “Dakar” expedition of the Volkswagen team in detail  

Volkswagen Race Touareg 2
Wolfsburg (13 November 2009). Project title defence: Volkswagen will again contest the famous Dakar Rally in January. One year after the triumph of the Wolfsburg-based automobile manufacturer at the debut event in Argentina and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen to field five Race Touareg vehicles at 2010 “Dakar”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[57 days until the 2010 Dakar Rally	 
 	Volkswagen to field five Race Touareg vehicles at 2010 “Dakar”  

Maurício Neves
Wolfsburg (06 November 2009). It is truly a five-star line-up: Volkswagen will field five Race Touareg vehicles at the 2010 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile. The Wolfsburg-based automobile manufacturer has signed the Brazilians Maurício [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The countdown is underway – 100 days until Volkswagen’s start to the “Dakar”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 days until the 2010 Dakar Rally	 
 	The countdown is underway – 100 days until Volkswagen’s start to the “Dakar”
Wolfsburg (24 September 2009). An XXL-sized Dakar Rally: Exactly 100 days from now, the demanding title defence project will kick off for Volkswagen in Argentina and Chile. At the second Dakar Rally in South America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitness week in Arosa kicks off “Dakar” preparations for Volkswagen drivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfsburg (21 September 2009). Fit for the title defence project: The Volkswagen drivers have prepared themselves for the 2010 Dakar Rally with a five-day altitude training programme. In Arosa, Switzerland, the traditional fitness week of the &#8220;Dakar” winners kicked off preparations for the desert classic. For the pairings in the Race Touareg cockpits, Carlos Sainz/Lucas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cates Becomes the Sixth Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup Winner of 2009 in New Jersey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megenbier holds a 39-point Championship lead heading into series&#8217; final race
MILLVILLE, N.J., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Less than 24 hours after one of the most exciting races of the season, the SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup drivers returned to New Jersey Motorsports Park for the series&#8217; second race of the weekend. Once again, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen driver Carlos Sainz about to win Silk Way Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silk Way Rallye, Leg 8, 12 September 2009	 
 	Volkswagen driver Carlos Sainz about to win Silk Way Rally  
Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz

Wolfsburg (12 September 2009). By clinching his third stage victory at the Silk Way Rally through Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan Volkswagen factory driver Carlos Sainz together with his co-driver Lucas Cruz (E/E) took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stage victory for the &#8220;Dakar” winners &#8211; Volkswagen continues in front</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silk Way Rally, Leg 5, 09 September 2009	 
 	Stage victory for the “Dakar” winners – Volkswagen continues in front  
Giniel de Villiers

Wolfsburg (09 September 2009). The &#8220;Dakar” winning duo Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (ZA/D) won the fifth stage of the Silk Way Rally through Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan and thus reduced its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fight for the top: Volkswagen quartet continues to lead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Fight for the top: Volkswagen quartet continues to lead






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Wolfsburg (07 September 2009). Continuation of the team-internal duel: Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) won the third leg of the Silk Way Rally and extended their overall advantage over their immediate rivals, Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen Motorsport Newsletter 23/2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Volkswagen Motorsport Newsletter 23/2009
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Al-Attiyah clinches 100th stage victory for Volkswagen Race Touareg







Volkswagen factory driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) clinched their first stage victory on the second leg of the Silk Way Rally and thus assumed the overall lead of the rally. Their exploit marked the 100th stage victory of the [...]]]></description>
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