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donations open for SWORDE-Teppa
you can now donate to SWORDE-Teppa on behalf of team mONgOLIATH from here. They seem to be a great charity, helping people in the poorest country in central asia, tajikistan.
new stats
different rally 2005 stats from the wikipedia page on the mongol rally. this one's funnier
43 cars left London... 27 reached Mongolia...14 reached the finish in Ulaanbaatar. What else happened
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 rolled by a pot hole.
3 teams attended weddings
1 team had to reverse up a mountain after losing all bar one forward gear
1 person spent 24 hours in a Kazakh jail charged with 5 crimes against the state.
1 person was stoned by a mongolian nomad (who he then shot at with a gun).
1 team were rammed off the road after an arguement over water melons.
1 person spent a day in a Turkish hospital.
3 people were banned from Turkmenistan for a year.
As a result of an incident with a cow 1 person was detained by police in Azerbaijan and threatened with a beating from a dwarf.
2 cars flipped over in Mongolia.
3 teams were chased by armed bandits.
0 teams died