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October 5(Local date), today was the destabilizing day. Jun lost GPS way points sometimes and he had to fight the hard battle in the difficult course to navigate. Jun spent the time without seeing other competitors within 30 km radius and he continued the race with fixing the gap of GPS way points.

After that Jun’s navigator Alan found GPS way points and the only thing they had to do was going straight to the goal. Unfortunately, they had flat tires 3 times and encountered the crash of motorcycle in front of him like yesterday. Jun helped the motorcycle rider and finally crossed the finish line later. Jun didn’t check the official result yet, but he felt today’s race was so interesting.

Jun said “Tomorrow is the last day of the rally, and I will try harder till the end to grab the good feeling to Dakar Rally”

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Stage:12th, Class:3rd

Overall Standings:8th, Class:1st

October 4(Local date), Jun started from the overall standings 5th and the soft sand caught his car today. Other high powered machines climbed up the sand dune easily but his stock car based race machine stuck in the sand easily. Also the radiator problem happened and Jun had to spent a time to repair it. Well, Jun’s ranking got down today.

He encountered another accident during his car stuck in the sand. When Jun evacuated the air from tires, the motorcycle rider fall from the sky and hit the ground. It was 10m high and the rider couldn’t wake by himself. Jun helped the rider, he took off the helmet from the rider and called somebody to help, it was the situation that he couldn’t let it pass. Jun’s rank was down, and he lost much time. However he did what the human should do and accepted the bad result.

The rally remain 2 days and Jun will catch up on the antecessor soon.

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