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MaxRally carries the story and some new pictures of our brush with near-failure to finish the 2011 East African Safari Rally.
After Björn hit a truck stuck in the mud a few hundred metres from a stage end, it was touch and go as to whether we’d get running again. The front section of the roll cage was damaged, with damage to the windscreen aperture too, but luckily we had a car to hand which could donate a front cage section to our cause.
It’s never easy to deal with major events on a rally that takes competitors hundreds of miles from anywhere, across Africa. Sometimes you have the resources to solve a problem and sometimes you don’t. When you don’t, you accept that, this time, it was not meant to be. When you do, but it is a big job that may not work, you have to decide whether you’re man enough to give it a go.
We came a long way to get the Safari Rally win, so Team Tuthill gave it everything, and tried every solution available to us. The obvious mechanical one was cut up a good car to help a damaged one that was in the lead. Any of our competitors would have done the same, and they know it. Read the full story here.
