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Stage 6

January 9(Local time), Jun started Stage 6 surrounded by many trucks but actually he ran smooth. Today’s course was separated by two parts from the 69km pavement liaison point. Jun lowered the air pressure of tires before second part of the course. He did same thing yesterday, although it didn’t work. But this time, it became a big hit.

Jun passed though the deep fesh-fesh ground area properly. His teammate stuck in there. But fesh-fesh was too deep to stop the car, he could do nothing and kept moving on.

Jun lowered the air pressure more at the entrance of the dune. Three cars stuck in front of him and blocked his line. Jun sneaked through the cars somehow but the tire fell off from the wheel’s rim. He let his teammates passed during he was changing the tire and he allowed that they were taking a lead.

Then next, a huge dune hill was coming up. Jun tried to cross over by accelerating from the around and using the edge, but there was a big hole on the top and his car fell off from the head. The left front tire was dented to the inside and it damaged the tire and the power steering. Jun and Alain talked just before that, if the differential rock had been broken, they would get a huge struggle. And the situation actually happened. They asked the audience to pull out the car and back to the race again. However, driving on the off road without the power steering was so hard. Jun felt uncomfortable vibration from jaggy road drive and couldn’t steer correctly. His arms had muscle pain but he finished the last of 30km safely.

Tomorrow Jun runs Marathon Stage starting this year. It is the course that TLC can’t support him. The stage includes the course around World famous Uyuni Salt Flat that is the first time for 4 wheels. Hope no troubles.

Liaison:255km
SS:392km
Total:674km
T2 Autos Result:1st
Overall standings:27th

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Stage5

Today was the bad day. First of all, the air conditioner broken when Jun left the camp ground and had to start the race without the air conditioner. After, he smelled the coolant of the radiator and the water temperature was up. He thought the radiator broken and got a hole on it but nothing. Jun continued the race with wondering about this.

Jun battled with his team mate sometime and the engine stopped suddenly. The engine started again at once. Then thhe car was on the land of soft sand like 2011. So he evacuated the air pressure of the tires. This decision gave Jun a harmful result later. The low air pressure tires did not mach up the course and Jun’s running pace did not increase then the tire went flat.

Slow buggies passed him during he was fixing the flat tire, and continued the race with them bothered each other. When Jun escaped from the rat race, Alain the navigator felt bad by the course shook his body from side to side. Jun drove the car with took care about Alain’s health and his concentration backed little by little. Jun increased the pace but flat tire again. They changed the tire quickly but the jack did not return. The bad day that small troubles bothered Jun, though he finished the race not much late from his team mate.

Jun’s health got way better and he still minded about his throat but he said the air passage got wider and easy. Today was the bad day but he could keep the best concentration power since the rally started.

Liaison:239km
SS:458km
Total:697km
T2 Autos Result:1st
Overall standings:28th

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