The morning started off with some pretty bad news, Dave discovered that he had also broken a spring mount and made the tough decision to turn back for repairs, rather than causing further damage to his beloved Nissan and thus jeopardizing the challenge. Dave's trip is over on day One.

The team are absolutely gutted.

After this setback we made some pretty good Km's today and are currently camped at Well 10.

All four riders are feeling the effects of the arduous terrain so far and this is just the beginning.

Boony stacked early and Red followed suit. This gave Red the privilege of serving the Broos on request for being the last stack of the day.

Red is determined not to fall off tomorrow but is tempted to sabotage Cavie so he doesn’t have to serve the Broos again.

There have been some extremely close calls including unplanned and unskilled off track adventures, serious washouts, insane corrugations and the odd near death experience.