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Dakar day 2, some bad luck

2012-01-03 0 komentarze

Day 2 of Dakar started of as a dream, Martin was very quick and passed waypoint1 in second position! The second day of Dakar started of amazing, passing Waypoint 1 in second position. Martin hit a rock and a tire blew. Normally not much of a problem, but the ring holding the tire in place was bend and so they couldn't drive on and had to wait for the quick assistant Martien to come with spare parts It had put them back in 24th position :-(. Lets hope for a better day on day 3.

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Van den Brink survives the first stage

2011-01-18 0 komentarze

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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Confidence is back for Vd Brink

2011-01-18 0 komentarze

After the first gruelling stage, that saw 3 Dutch trucks out of the race and of course the nerves of it being the first stage with the bad memory of last years crash, we can now safely saw that Vd Brink is back in Dakar! Starting the second stage from 41ste place he began an impressive race and ended 16th at the end of the day, overtaking 15 trucks!!

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