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Our cars have arrived! Together with 680 vehicles that have been shipped from Le Havre to the province of Buenos Aires. Two days ago, motorcycles, quads, cars and trucks attending the rally were officially welcomed in Argentina by the Minister of Tourism, Enrique Meyer, and the coordinator of the rally in Argentina, Leonardo Boto.

Apart from the usual crew on the boat, two employees of the Dakar attended the cruise in order to keep an eye on the precious cargo. Upon arrival, they were greeted by the Argentine dock workers and aided by some Dakar crew members for unloading the vehicles. The maneuvers took nearly nine hours and now all vehicles are stored in a closed park. Of course, we can't wait to pick them up.

Now all we can wish from the Pewano team - Have a merry christmas & happy holidays!

Bijna klaar voor de start!

Morgen gaat het beginnen ( http://www.dakar.com/index_DAKus.html )
en nu maar hopen dat alles voor het XC60 Team goed verloopt.

Oei, wat lees ik nu.....

The former South African motorcycle rider, participating at the wheel of a Volvo XC60-based Pewano, has been the victim of a fire which has destroyed his vehicle. Both the driver and his German teammate Jürgen Schröder emerged unscathed.


Is nie goed nie.

Yeb, ze liggen er al uit!

Poeh.... Dat is wel heel zuur...

Ik was wel heel benieuwd wat ze hadden gepresteerd in de race

Zei ik toch, hij was te lelijk.

Maar zuur ja.

Hmm dat is balen, eens kijken of het zo ook op tv komt...

Ai, dat is jammer!

Dit is wel zuur. Geen tweede auto mee?

Erg jammer

Al dat werk voor niks.

En niet te vergeten al het geld van het team en de sponsoren.

Dit gevonden op Nieuwsfeed .............

16:25 Alfie Cox eerste uitvaller Dakar
De Zuid-Afrikaan Alfie Cox is de eerste uitvaller van de rally. De Volvo XC60 brandde uit. Zowel Cox als bijrijder Jürgen Schröder bleef ongedeerd. :?

Heel jammer, er ruste niet echt een zegen op deze deelname.



Overigens is dit al de derde Volvo die in 3 dagen in vlammen opgegaan is...

Persbericht:
NEWS / 2012-01-02
A FIRE FORCED PEWANO OUT OF THE RACE
The Swedish team Pewano never got the chance to show their full capacity during the world’s toughest race – the 2012 Dakar Rally. Half way into the first special, the violent fire forced Alfie Cox and Jürgen Schröder to abandon the PEWANO XC60 RR.

“The car went up in flames, there’s nothing left”, says Hans Sönksen, Team Manager of Pewano. He continues: “We are terribly disappointed and sad. We knew this would not be easy, but that the car would catch fire, was not even a conceivable scenario. During 14 days of racing you always have to be prepared for mechanical problems, but since we had all the necessary fire equipment and had secured all flammable material - even in our wildest imagination - we had not been able to predict this.”

It was during the first stage between Mar del Plata and Santa Rosa de la Pampa, after a couple hours of faultless driving, that something went wrong. With the car gutted by the flames, it’s not possible to determine what caused the fire, but we believe that a leak in either the powersteering pump or one of the hoses in the powersteering system was the cause.

“We were racing at the pace of the front-runners, the car was absolutely stunning. I did not have to fight to keep up the speed, and I enjoyed every moment of the drive as the car was so easy to control. About 30km into the stage, the power-steering failed and the next moment my side of the car was engulfed in flames. We immediately tried to extinguish the fire, but it was just not possible. Fortunately we managed to escape from the burning car; however the entire team is really shaken-up and very, very disappointed”, explains a devastated Cox.

For the last couple of months everyone in the Pewano team has worked day and night for this race, and to see the car get burned into ashes - there’s only one word to describe the overall feeling: emptiness. We were set to bring the car to the finish in Lima, regardless of results, and now we are deprived of that opportunity.

Despite the violent fire, both Cox and Schröder are unharmed. Cox remarked: “It could have been much worse, the most feared moment for any racing driver is to be caught in a burning vehicle, we escaped and we are shocked, and disillusioned, but otherwise fine. I feel truly sorry for the team; they worked really hard in preparing the car. Now we will re-group, and plan our way forward.

Erg jammer en heel sneu voor alle mensen die er enorm veel tijd in hebben gestopt. Maar goed het blijft een mechanische sport en dan gebeuren er dit soort vervelende zaken.

Het ongeluk gebeurde al in de competitie de eerste dag, wanneer de bestuurder Alfie Cox en zijn bijrijder Jurgen Schröder op weg waren tussen Mar del Plata en Santa Rosa.

De uitgebrande auto maakt het onmogelijk om te zien wat de oorzaak van de brand is, maar de bestuurder Cox vermoedt dat er een lek in de stuurbekrachtiging pomp, of een probleem in een van de slangen in de servo.
Toen ze de brand opmerkten hebben ze nog gepoogd de brand te blussen met koolstof maar het was hopeloos.

En blijkbaar is het daar bij gebleven, zie ze nu iig niet voorbij komen...