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Tenth stage, eleventh place, back in Argentina

2011.01.18. 0 hozzászólás

A long and boring 686 kilometer connection route wore the team down before the start of the 176 kilometer special stage. Even with the long connection route, the very extreme conditions during the special and difficulties in navigating the team finished eleventh of the day.

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Van den Brink survives the first stage

2011.01.18. 0 hozzászólás

It was a battlefield on the first day of the Dakar race. Several strong Dutch trucks crashed in the first stage including: Wuf van Ginkel and a little later Hans Bekx both trucks were to damaged to continue. Another big loss is Gerard de Rooy he had to stop the rage because of an injury to his back, suffered after a hard jump.

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Back on all four wheels and back in the Rally

2011.01.18. 0 hozzászólás

A day after the Van der Brink team were faced with the unfortunate event of the truck flipping over on its side, the team made up for lost time yesterday in a shortened stage for day 10 of the Dakar Rally.

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