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Today was declared non competition which was a huge relief as the car was not a bit well. Simone Ayeris worked on it for about 3 hours fixing the axle, the pin had sheared off, and straightening up the spring in order to thread the new pin through. He also cleaned up the oil pump cap which was leaking. We hit the road at 11.30 and had a beautiful drive over roads which felt less bumpy because we were in less of a hurry, but we still had to make it into camp for a passage control. We travelled through stunning mountainous scenery, totally unpopulated with black jagged volcanic hills surrounding us as we were on the plains between. It is very high, about 6000ft so cold and sunny. A lot of deep sandy patches on the road which we managed to plough through on our trusty off road tyres, which have been commented on a lot, until the last and most spectacular where we finally ground to a halt. As luck would have it, there was a landrover waiting to pull us out. But we did fell a little bit silly. Not as silly as the South Africans who started their car this morning and, for the first time in history it started first try but was in reverse, shot back and onto someone’s tent, and they were in it! A bit of a rude awakening. Fitted new spark plugs which did mean we flew! Finished our day at Teel River with a glass of wine, or two, watching the sunset with Craig and Nicky.