In case you thought Dakar 4x4s were only any good at carrying around the likes of Anneka Rice as she skips from one challenge to the next, lan Stent has been on a number of rather manic off-road excursions which set the Dakar rather more demanding challenges. |
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| gradually wandering its way through this revolting gloopy gunk as though without a care in the world. For the last five minutes or so we’d sat on solid ground watching a number of other staunch 'off-road' enthusiasts throw their various pieces of machinery into the swamp that we were now having so much 'fun' in. They'd all got stuck, of course, and we'd had such a laugh watching everyone else getting into trouble that we decided it was time to have a go ourselves – | |||
| THE LIGHT SANDY COLOURED MUD IS now over the wheels. It looks like a MacDonalds’ chocolate milk shake and the Dakar’s exhaust is bubbling away some three or four inches below the surface. So long as the engine doesn’t stop we're OK | – if it does we are, as they say, in deep MacDonalds! Dakar Cars' Barry Chantler is at the wheel and he's pottering along like some old lady on a Sunday drive in the country. The engine's barely running above tickover but the Dakar 4x4 is | this is typical 4x4 mentality and the reason why so many vehicles get stuck in the same pond. In any other walk of life you'd be driving along, see someone in the mud ahead of you and think .. I'll go around that Oh no, not here. We’re talking Lemmings | |
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