Find out who felt the need to drive to Timbuktu...
Come back soon to see all the pics and possibly reasonably accurate (and maybe libellous) info about the participants...Team 1 'Team Sheen'Karl, Mark and (from Nouakchott on) Nicola (long suffering wife of Karl). PDC and Tashkent veterans, and rather hopeless dis-organisers of the T4. Were taking a Mercedes until it turned out to be a pile of junk, and ended up with Frida the delectable Volvo.
Team 2
George
Mondeo
Team 3 'Shap Ahoy'Tim and Nick hail from somewhere 'up north' and piloted an Escort diesel estate, generally at high speed, and sadly sang for us as well.
Team 4 'Team Lionel Shapiro'Richard and Anne-Marie boldly went where no clapped out Ford Fiesta had gone before. Ok Timbuktu was a town too far for their Fiesta, but to reach Bamako in the red wreck was an incredible feat in itself. Lionel Shapiro? A well-wisher from London. Well, something like that.
Team 5
Paula can
normally be found zipping round London beneath some pretty blue
flashing lights.
Tim is a bloody
student, need I say more? Oh, he is one of the maladjusted individuals 'planning' the RFTS 2008 trip. Paula and Tim took a rather smart Mercedes 190 on T4, though sadly due to circumstances beyond their control were unable to get to Timbuktu.
Team 6
Filipe and Ana
Umm
Team 7
Ian and Sam
Trooper
Team 8
Nathan and Frankie
Mercedes 240D
Team 9
Ray and Jon
Land Rover
Team 10 'Team Hitchhiker'
Toby has been described as 'a renowned explorer, bon vivant, wit and international celebrity'. On Wikipedia no less. Though not for long. He took the slightly unusual decision to enter a driving challenge without a car. Unfortunately, photographs do exist of this individual. He also forms part of the RFTS 2008 Disorganising Junta.
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