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out your competitors from yesterday
and tomorrow. It’s anyone’s
guess whether it was intentional
or coincidence when a strong
team was thrown together with a
weak team.
South Africa and Japan find
themselves together in the sandbox
once again. While the one
team has the sandy, home team
advantage, the other is absolutely
inexperienced at riding
through deep sand. It is heavy
going for the South Africans to
repeatedly dig up and haul out
the Japanese team’s 800ccs after
every crash – and there are
several of those. Looking back,
Roger Kane Berman thinks that
the ride through the sand with the
Japanese was the toughest thing
he’s ever been through.
GS
DAY 3
16.11.2010
TROPHY
Mission Ponta is a tough one. Endurance and the right riding
technique for sand are one thing, but self-discovery,
the struggle to become a team, which on top of that cooperates
with another team, is something else. Not least because
everyone has come into this with completely different
backgrounds. While some teams had already trained intensively
with each other, others only got to know each other
at the airport.
Communication is another factor. Team Nordic is made
up of three Scandinavians: one Swede, one Finn, and one
Norwegian. Since they don’t all speak each others’ language,
they’ve decided on English as the team language –
though they still curse in their own languages.
After 320 gruelling kilometres in one day, the fishing village
Ponta do Ouro awaits, sitting on the Indian Ocean. Everyone
is richly deserving of a dive into the blue water and
a cool beer!
Everyone has made it to the finish line. Everyone is happy.
Team Nordic is celebrating the day’s victory; with the
same number of points it is now on equal footing with Germany,
sitting in second place in the overall rankings behind
the UK.