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Lastly, the car & crew it all revolves around … Proto Crew. Grueling swamps will be awaiting Filip and his co-pilot Ben in the fearsome “Proto” class, where they will be racing the House of Flying Spanners-built “Mouse”
 Mouse lifting a paw  Filip  Ben
Good Luck guys!!!
driving “chase” for our Proto Racer is my Co-Pilot Rob and myself, Quentin, in my old (t)rusty Range Rover:  Rob & Quentin digging and winching out the Range in the clay of Inor
 Quentin during the second tour in Russia
 My co-pilot Rob, doing what he loves
Next up are Michel and Julie in Grand Tourism, with the G4 Discovery 3.  the D3 during Ladoga 2011
 Julie, digging up the winch
 michel, always eating
I’ll start by introducing our support team, thanks to whom we’re able to go out there and run proto: Camp support consists of four people this year, Britt with her co-pilot Mathias in the Defender 90, and Jochen and his son Simon in their Disco 4. they’re all joining us in Russia for the first time, but have plenty of off-roading skill as they demonstrated during the team’s training weekend in Inor.  Britt, photographer photographed
 Mathias, quite concentrated indeed  Jochen, smiling for once
 Defender 90 "Vark", pullling out our proto racer Mouse
 Discovery 4, aka. the troop carrier
Short post to let you all know, officially, the Belgian Collective has entered the Ladoga Trophy 2012!! Team presentation is in the making, but ‘spoiler alert’ : we’ve entered Proto! Check back soon, Quentin Just came across these pictures from the beach race – didn’t spot any of the other team members though.
Filip, Diede and Peter L left St Pete’s yesterday evening and made it to the ferry. Michel and Peter T are staying for some partying and will be boarding the ferry tomorrow. Some more detailed updates: Michel’s D3 did fine, but had one glitch during a long river crossing where the ECUs stopped communicating, which caused it to go into all sorts of failsafes and get stuck. Machine, Peter’s D1, broke a shock but they had it welded and it seems to be holding up. Piper, the P38, has some problems with the transfer box actuation, but a manual override solved that. There’s also a crack forming in the windshield, and the shocks and shock bushings are shot. The team arrived at the last camp. It’s very hot there (30°C+) and it’s as if the swamp has dried up. All cars are holding up well. Russia is taking its toll on the cars now, but they’re still going strong! The damage mentioned in the previous post was a broken shock (now welded) and a burst servo hose (also fixed). Michel’s D3 went into transmission failure in the middle of a little lake (it does that from time to time), giving the boys a good opportunity to test out Piper’s winch. Just got word that they encountered a swampy bit of rockcrawling. They also had a rally-style stage (not sure whether it’s an actual rally stage or just the nightstage) where they ran into a bit of damage. Next up: beachrace! |
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