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2015 DAKAR Second half movie
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The acknowledgment and the announcement
I complete the full distance of Dakar Rally 2015 safely.
This is my 5th won at the class for me.
My challenges to stock car category were 8 times include my Nissan era and 5 times victories in 8 time means my winning rate over 50% and it is higher winning rate than Ichiro of MLB lol.
However it was not easy to win the race this time.
I could not exercise my true performance due to my throat disordered from year end of 2014 in the first half of the rally.
I broke my car sometime even turned over after the half way. What a mess. It was not the driving that capture the victory.
But a bit of luck on my side and I could have a lead because the 2nd car troubled during the race.
After that, we joined hands sometime and ran together for the goal to succeed the one-two finish. We did boundary-pushing battle at last of the rally and we won.
I was so much assisted by the mechanics and I could not grab the victory without the support of 2nd car. The victory that we all got together as one team. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m really grateful to my sponsors and fans who gave cheers for me too.
Especially 2nd car’s run during the race was amazing this year and if they did not have radiator’s trouble in the first half of the rally, I couldn’t be the winner.
I am sorry for having caused fans so much worry that ugly trouble happened in the team. But I had to fight with my pride to outrageousness thing that trample down my life as the rally driver and the efforts by the team crew.
I wrote about it in my Facebook already, the director of the team ordered me, that I give up the top and hand over it to 2nd car. I think I must show the respect for the team order as the factory team driver. That is why I need a definite reason too. For example, make an appeal as French driver’s win or recommend a company member as a navigator, those are allowable reason. I don’t have any counter for it.
But the director did not tell the reason about his order. I talked with the chief mechanics and the crew of 2nd car. I talked to another company member of Toyota Auto Body. Then I found there was no priority who must be the winner in Toyota and Toyota Auto Body. All of the crew arrived at a conclusion that was I didn’t have to give up the top at that time. It means the director’s order was not to think about the business advantage and we found it related to personal thought. It was not a team order.
I am thinking about I have a lot of responsibility for this trouble and I perturbed the people. So I stand down from the driver’s seat of TLC’s 1st car and stop my activity of the race. I am sorry that I blow the celebratory atmosphere for 5th win and the championships for 2 years but this is the only way to take my responsibility for this trouble and I was against the order with my preparation. I still believe my decision was right.
It ended up like this. Please wish me and TLC a good luck.
Takahiro Iwase CEO of Toyota Auto Body pleased so much and Akio Toyota CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation gave to me the message of congratulations after the rally.
The team members and I stood on the podium with the pride and the confidence at last.
Thank you for your support !
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おめでとうございます!! &お疲れさまでした(^^)/
ゆっくりと体 休めてくださいね。
日本は寒いですよ~
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Report #14 Rosario > Buenos Aires
Stage 13
January 17(Local time), the good news came from when Jun was on the road at the liaison. Jun won T2 Auto class again !
Jun got a heavy rain in the last stage of this year. There was no rain when he started from the bivouac and gallons of rain fell just after that. Today’s SS was shorten from 174km to 33km by a large margin. Jun’s view was too bad to see and the road surface was slippy. It was so dangerous like he was running on the ice. The condition of today’s course was so bad but he drove the car safely to the finish line and he accomplished about 9000km from the start of January 3(Local time). He captured 5th victory at his class finally .
Jun couldn’t been convinced about team’s strategically sometime during the Dakar Rally 2015. He talked with the team mates and Jun expressed the clear intention to the goal. Jun worried if he kept his power of concentration till the end but he acted up to his belief at last.
Liaison:219km
SS:174km
Total:393km
T2 Autos Result:1st
Overall standings:29th
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おめでとうございます!
帰って落ち着いたら、肝臓のセッティング出たころ祝杯にお誘いします!! -
おめでとう!! 最後まで大変だったみたいだけど、さすがだね。
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おめでとうございます!大変でないことはあり得ないのがダカールラリーとは言え、最後までハードなコンディションだったのですね。様々な過酷なコンディションを切り抜けて来られたのも、豊富なダカール経験と、テクニックと意志力と体力、それから日頃からアウトドアで磨いているアウトドア勘もお持ちだからだと思います。チームの判断がどうして、と思うような場面があっても、モチベーションと集中力を切らさず最後まで走って来られたのも冷静さと熱さを併せ持つ三橋選手ならではだと思います。さすが三橋選手!と思うにつけ、三橋選手の来年のダカールの戦いが見たいと早くも思わせられてしまいますが、まずは、ご自愛なさってお疲れをお取りになって下さい。何たってダカールラリーのゴール!現地は盛り上がっているんでしょうね~ゴール後も楽しみな感じですね~。とは言うもののお祭り騒ぎとなると、治安は良くないかも知れないのでお体はもちろん、iphoneやお財布パスポートにもお気をお付けになって下さい。お疲れ様でした!
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おめでとうございます!体調不良と聞いて心配でしたがさすがはプロですね!早く報告の声を聞きたいです!
全てにおいて「さすが三橋選手」と思うにつけ、三橋選手がレース活動を自粛なさるとは勿体ないことだと思います。と言うか、三橋選手のいないTLCは想像できません。今までずっと各所のイベントでランクルのデモ走行してTLCをアピールしていらしたのに。オフシーズンもファンがTLCの存在を感じられるのも三橋選手あってのことではないでしょうか。近くは2月11日放送のJ SPORTSのダカール総集編番組が三橋選手抜きだったら残念ですし、つまらないです。是非ともレース活動に復帰できますように!
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