Sunday Evening Open Thread: âPounding Sandâ
Sunday Evening Open Thread: âÂÂPounding Sandâ û Balloon Juice
... The line between "patient" and "glutton for punishment" is a fine one, and at times it"s difficult to
tell on which side of it...
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: âPounding Sandâ
Sunday Evening Open Thread: âÂÂPounding Sandâ û Balloon Juice
... The line between "patient" and "glutton for punishment" is a fine one, and at times it"s difficult to
tell on which side of it navigator P?(C)rin and driver Joan "Nani" Roma fall. The "raid"-style Dakar
Rally is basically an entire World Rally Championship season crammed into two frantic weeks "
thirteen days in which they may spend as many as 12 hours a day crossing some of the least carfriendly surfaces on earth.
Naturally, they are not relaxing hours. The Mini is a furious rock-polisher of a car, to the point where
Roma and P?(C)rin"s conditioning regimen includes extensive neck exercises just so they can hold
their heads steady enough to read the instruments and logbook. It"s also incredibly hot in there "
"fifty, sixty degrees," P?(C)rin estimates, and nobody"s impressed until they realize that, as a
Frenchman, he means Celsius.
And that"s just inside the ca
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