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Finalized the day of patience, Became first in line for the class.

January 10(Local date), today’s stage was separated by 2 parts same as yesterday. The road was narrow like one camion could roll through. All entries start in order for the ranking of yesterday, many camions ran before Jun’s car and he could not pass them. He settled for keeping a low speed even the team mates angered such a slow pace.

In the first half, Jun drove at so good rate but Gibon, the team mate failed to make a curve turn and tumbled from the cliff. The radiator damaged when his car tumbled down. To salvage Gibon’s car, it took about 2 hours with a help from a camion.

Camion’s SS ended at the first half on the schedule. After that only the cars and the motorcycles raced in the last half of the course that reduced Jun’s strain. He drove the forest road with briskness. He said,
“I controled myself in the first half, the reward waited for me in the last half”
The mechanics of the team worked all thorough 2 nights to fix the problems and maintain the car and Jun was able to finish this stage with no troubles for their effort.

The first half of the entire rally schedule was over and Jun came out on the top in his class. This is the achievement for Jun’s constant effort. However he was cool and said,
“We have one more week”
Jun knows any troubles turn over the gap to followers easily.

Jun drove the difficult courses in series and wake up at 5:00 everyday this year, he is tired due to lack of sleep. Tomorrow is the rest day, Jun’s wish is sleep all day.

Dakar Rally 2014 Stage 4 Result:
Liaison:270 km
SS:427km
T2 Autos Result:1st
Overall standings:22nd

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This is Dakar Rally ! Accomplished the survival route.

January 09(Local date), the stage of today was separated by 2 parts and difficult, long way to the finish line. The rally officials prepared 911km long included the liaison for today. However the temperature rose too high to complete a whole course and they abbreviated 100km of the last half.

After Jun passed the half point of the first half, he became the heat stroke a bit, and Alan the navigator fell sick. Jun’s team mates came together till 40km from the start, he let others go forward due to wait for Alan’s health condition was back. Under extreme weather condition, Jun gave the water to a motorcycle rider who did not have any, then Jun and Alan drank all of the water they had. Local temperature rose to 47 degrees and they opened all windows but no wind came in. It was really tough situation.

The clutch of Jun’s car did not work on the way and he had to drive 200km with 2nd gear only, it took a long time. Additionally stuck 3 times, flat tire 2 times, many troubles hit Jun. And the overheating of the engine began. Jun repeated stop a little while to cool down the engine and run many times. The team mate’s car was the same and the maximum time lag with them was 20 minutes over in the first stage.

On the entire route, Jun had 3 times stuck, 2 times flat tire and more troubles bothered him but he could finish the race. The gap with the team mates was only 3 minutes at the goal.
Jun said,
“Today’s course was like uncharted road and this is The Dakar. The courses of this year are so much difficult to drive. However if I want to do a high speed rally, I would to go to WRC, this is the rally raid that drive through the rough and tough nature. Today’s run was not good though the time lag was only some minutes as a result. I feel like I ride my luck”

Dakar Rally 2014 Stage 4 Result:
Liaison:384 km
SS:527km
T2 Autos Result:2nd
Overall standings:34th

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