Land Rover G4 Challenge
Mud Glorious Mud
03.05.2006
The power couple that have excelled across the board, put on a virtually flawless display in five activities. They followed up a strong opening in the driving, where they hit four of the scoring gates – a tally only beaten by France and Argentina – with outstanding performances in climbing, running and the ‘special task’ of constructing a water pipe system.
A final triumph in the compulsory mountain biking - a gruelling eliminator around grazing water buffalo in the shadow of forested hills – rounded off a magnificent day and storming week for the pairing of Dmitry Timokhin and Kris Janssens.
‘It was a very good day,’ said Dmitry. ‘I’d like to say grand things to Kris because he has been a real partner for me. I have good experience of navigating but not enough energy – and he is a very strong, very cool guy. I think his next partner will be really happy.
‘We’ve had great discussions between every competition. Today we couldn’t work out whether to kayak or do the special task. We went from one to the other and back again, before deciding on the task. That was a good move – the kayaking took 45 minutes, which would have worn us out before the mountain biking. There has been excellent communication between us.’
Their domination would have been even more complete if they’d tackled six activities as on the day before. ‘We tried but it just wasn’t theoretically possible today,’ explained Kris. ‘After the first three events we had made up 33 minutes, but there was such a big drive between the last two competitions.’
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