Show me the way to Ulaan Bataar... Vol. II

Now this is the sort of stuff that really kicks ass.  The organisers of the Mongol Rally have posted a rundown of all the bad things that happened in last year's rally to give us an idea of the countless ways in which we could meet our maker this year.  Here's the list:-

43 cars left London.

27 cars reached Mongolia.

14 cars reached the finish in Ulaanbaatar.

2 teams were robbed at knife point.

1 car snapped in half.

3 engines fell completely out of the cars.

1 team were 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.

1 team got engaged.

1 team found a 10ft deep pot hole.

1 team found a 25 tonne crane that had rolled due to a pot hole.

1 person spent a day in a Turkish hospital.

3 people were banned from Turkmenistan for a year.

1 person was detained by police in Azerbaijan and threated with a beating from a dwarf. This followed an incident with a cow.

2 cars flipped over in Mongolia.

3 teams were chased by armed bandits.

0 teams died.

every team had a very memorable trip.

It has been my life long dream (or, at least, my life long dream for the last ten minutes) to get banned from a nation with lots of vowels in its name.  Also, I don't want to lie on my deathbed regretting the fact that I never flipped a car. 

If you'd like to read about our plan to take part in the Mongol Rally 2006, click here.  If you'd like to throw some spare cash our way to help us acheive our £1000 charity target, click the picture of the cars in the left sidebar (the one under the moodily lit vanity shot of me doing my 'Blue Steel' pose).

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