Sunday, April 6, 2014

Day One - not a good day


Apologies to those of you who visited the site yesterday expecting an update from the rally. Unfortunately one of the riders, Dubai based British ex pat Cameron Waugh, suffered serious injuries following a crash approximately 155kms into the stage on Day one. Despite the valiant efforts of fellow competitor Jakub Przygonski, who called for a medevac helicopter and performed CPR on Cameron 'to the point of exhaustion', Cameron succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Having learned this just after driving halfway to Liwa to meet Kate, to hand over a pulley wheel which turned out to be the wrong part (yes, the second time in two years I've done that) I returned home late and had no desire to sit and write some witty comments about the day's activities. Sorry.

RIP Cameron, we offer our condolences to his family.

Ian and Sheila finished the day, which is more than half a dozen other cars managed, despite some gearbox issues which we believe are related to cooling and possibly therefore, the damaged pulley wheel. Richard and Rick were trying to take the bearings from the pulley I brought down last night, to fit into the damaged one from the car. Fingers crossed.

Quick Update at 9.40am on Day 2. Richard the Fifth and Rick the Careless succeeded in pressing the bearings out and swapped them for the bearings in the old pulley. So not a completely wasted journey / evening. Well done guys.

 

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