Sadly codriver Niels Heede Pedersen and I are already back in Denmark from this
years Dakar rally. A broken gearbox ended our rally on the 3 special. It was
sad to exit the rally so soon even before we reached the Africa stages where
the real action starts. There is lots to be happy about though. We set a good
time on the 2 special - where we were faster than several factory teams ( # 54
in the general classification and # 23 in the amateur classification ). Our Volvo
was praised by everybody, compeditors - the organization - the press and the
spectators. A lot of pictures were taken of the car - even by our compeditors.
We were happy that our service team are able to continue. Thy can get a lot of
valuable knowledge about the rally and they can assist the Swedish and Danish
competitors, Håkon Roos (start # 255) and Marc Dulum ( start # 37 ) if
nessesary. We hope now that our sponsors will make it possible for us to continue
developing the car. Our plan is to participate in the Atlas rally in Morocco
this june and of cause - the Dakar 2004! All for now - thank you for all the
encouraging mails - we will be back! Ivan
