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
1 comment:
You're all crazy.
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