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London to Cape Town Day 19: Porsche Penalties

January 20, 2012

Pics by Gerard Brown/Rally Organisers Day 19 on the London to Cape Town and it’s back to business as normal in Africa: smashing nice cars to pieces! If this keeps up, then perhaps only the support 4x4s will take the flag in Cape Town. At the end of Day 17, the 911 lay 3rd with [...]

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Feature 993 RS/Cup for sale at JZM Porsche

January 18, 2012

I was down with JZM Porsche in Hertfordshire last week, doing a piece for Ferdinand magazine and talking about some other exciting stuff we have coming up together. Spent a few hours catching up with Jonas, and then Technical Director Steve McHale took me on a tour of their highly impressive facility. As we walked [...]

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London to Cape Town: Day 17 is Carnage

January 17, 2012

Pictures: Bert Callens and Alltrack.be Day 17 of the London to Cape Town Rally and all dreams of a quick breeze down a ‘civilised’ East African coast have been smashed to smithereens. So have most of the cars competing on the rally, thanks to the horrendous Marsabit to Nairobi road. Had a text from Hayden [...]

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London to Cape Town: Porsche Durability Continues

January 16, 2012

More news in from Kenya. It’s been a tough day: many are arriving back to base well late and five cars are still stuck in the desert – but the two top ten Porsches are making more ground on the leaderboard. Hayden is clearly keeping busy, hence the lack of texts. The organisers say that, [...]

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London to Cape Town: Day 15

January 16, 2012

Pics by Gerard Brown I’m just back from three blurry days in Ireland on my little brother’s stag do. Hayden sent me a quick text on Friday by way of update, but this is the first chance I’ve had to blog it. Not heard much since, no doubt due to communication network availability. As soon [...]

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London Cape Town 2012: Day 11 from Hayden

January 12, 2012

Photos by John Bayliss from Car 37: Volvo 144 The organisers say Day 9 of the 2012 London to CapeTown was the most physically demanding day so far, after so many crews became stuck in the soft sand of the first desert section in Egypt. The ferry that night took them into Duba, to be [...]

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