Wednesday, 13 June 2007

What happened in 2005?

This is what happened to the 43 cars that left London in 2005...

27 cars reached Mongolia
14 cars reached the finish in Ulaan Baatar
1 car snapped in half
3 engines fell completely out of the cars
2 cars flipped over in Mongolia
1 team was held for 5 days in no-mans land
1 team cycled 200km to get to the finish when their car gave in
100's of tyres were blown
3 teams attended weddings
1 team got engaged
2 teams were robbed at knife point
3 teams were chased by armed bandits
1 team found a 10ft deep pothole
1 team found a 25 tonne crane that had rolled due to a pothole
1 team had to reverse up a mountain after losing all bar one forward gear
1 person spent 24 hours in a Kazakh jail charged with 5 crimes against the state
1 person was detained by police in Azerbaijan and threatened with a beating from a dwarf - this followed an incident with a cow
3 people were banned from Turkmenistan for a year
1 person was stoned by a Mongolian nomad (who he then shot at with a gun)
1 team got rammed off the road after an argument over water melons
1 person spent a day in a Turkish hospital
0 teams died