Dakar 2016: car of Martin from the Brink, burned out

Posted on 05-01-2016 at 11:19 by autoblogger – 24 Comments”

The team Mammoet Rallysport drove yesterday for the first and last stage. For Martin van den Brink, Peter Willemsen and Richard Mouw came to a premature end to the Dakar Rally 2016.

After the first stage Sunday was cancelled because of the heavy rainfall began From the Brink Monday is swiftly on the second day. In the opening phase snuggled the Harskampse formation is quite simple in the top ten. At about 100 kilometres before the end of the trial about 387 kilometers went wrong. “I felt that there was no brake pressure. In a bend to the right we came to a shore, I could see the truck still on the path and then we heard something. Mechanic Richard Mouw then went to look and shouted that the left rear was on fire.” The Renault caught on fast flame. The riders were in safety, but the flames were soon put an end to the aspirations of the team.

The men of the Mammoet Rallysport tried the fire yet to be extinguished, but that was impossible. “We received help from Kamaz-rider Dmitry Sotnikov. That was very nice, but also the Russians could do nothing more. It is really very remarkable that it goes so fast. We could just start from nothing. Finally I have only a few pictures made,” said Martin, who so closely watched that his life’s work to the ground was destroyed.

“Ton van Genugten is seventh. I think that our place had been,” says Van den Brink, after he and his teammates in a helicopter to the bivouac in Termas Rio Hondo.