An article in today's Sunday Times mentions that a bunch of disabled squaddies will be competing in the next Dakar rally for Race2Recovery. It starts in Lima on 5th January and ends in Santiago on 20th January.
Do we know of anyone that could greet them with a couple of cases of cold beer and show them a night on the town?
Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 10 Jan 13 at 13:38
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I might be able to find someone.
Are there any more details or contacts?
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>> I might be able to find someone.
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>> Are there any more details or contacts?
www.race2recovery.com
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Are these the guys that were on Top Gear a while back? IIRC, Ben Collins (ex Stig) was giving them a helping hand.
edit - it was, unless this is a different group of squaddies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTZW5a6rC3M
double edit - it is the same group of squaddies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrNrMScrdL4
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 19 Nov 12 at 01:36
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Three British men including two former soldiers have been badly injured in a crash in South America as they were taking part in what is billed as the world's toughest race.
The men were transferred to a local hospital and later flown by aircraft to another hospital in Lima where they are said to be "stable and conscious" with injuries described as "non-life-threatening".
A spokesman for the Race2Recovery team said a support vehicle the three team members were travelling in during the Dakar Rally was involved in a head-on collision in Peru which is believed to have left two other people dead.
The crash happened when their vehicle, a Land Rover Defender, was travelling in convoy on day five of the rally with other support vehicles in the Peruvian town of Tacna, near the Chilean border.
tinyurl.com/a7aezf9 - (The Telegraph)
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>> Three British men including two former soldiers have been badly injured in a crash in
>> South America as they were taking part in what is billed as the world's toughest
>> race.
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Not nice and not even during the race.
Wonder what the taxi was?
Looks like the Defender won that battle and it's such an old design as well.
Glad the team is carrying on, you can't change what's just happened and they are there for a reason.
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www.larepublica.pe/10-01-2013/tacna-cuadruple-choque-en-dakar
Two Peruvians were killed and up to 10 other people injured.
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Witnesses said they were driving on the wrong side of the carriageway.
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>> Witnesses said they were driving on the wrong side of the carriageway.
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Who?...The Brits or the Peruvians?
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So far the Peruvians are being somewhat circumspect.
It would seem that the two Peruvian people killed were in what are euphemistically called taxis, or community transport. These collided head on with the Dakar support vehicles coming the other way.
Such vehicles are not know for their respect of white lines, nonetheless neither do they drive head on into SUVs all that often.
There was one comment made, and quickly not made again, that the Dakar vehicle(s) were "pressing on".
They'll investigate it slowly, inefficiently and maddeningly. They will almost certainly arrive at the truth, they usually do.
And then someone will decide what level of correlation is required between the truth and the statements issued.
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I've just been at the airport dropping a friend off- it is buried in large, adventurous types all wearing sponsored clothing.
I did look out for any Brits to congratulate, but didn't find any. Most of the people seemed to be Scandinavian.
And I cannot imagine the excess luggage bill.
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Santiago welcome? - No FM2R
