James Rickwood-Dodsworth and Andy Wallace (both 19), from Newcastle and Gateshead cross Europe and take in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the Mongol Rally 2006. ...We want to drive to Mongolia, but there's a crazy Chinese woman standing on top of our newly-purchased car, in Gateshead, yelling "Take photos!". Ling Valentine, owner of our major sponsor LINGsCARS.com had just finished filming her promotional video for her new-car leasing website and we were all exhausted. She had forced us to drive like rally madmen for her video, and the car smelt hot. As soon as Ling's boots abandoned our roof and hit the ground, we hit the road. Why did we choose a mental Chinese woman for a sponsor? Goodbye Ling Earlier, Ling had provided our food as she had promised. Eight boxes of identical "Chicken soup flavour" sell-by-date this month, Chinese brand packet noodles had been thrown into our Fiat, along with 100 pairs of chopsticks and two boxes of Chinese tea bags. We stood there and watched, with our mouths open. We were expecting food, not dried chemicals. "Go!" Ling simply yelled after provisioning us, then turned her back and marched off. We jumped straight back in the rubbish car we had bought, an R reg Fiat Seicento, and it took us 7 hours to reach London from Gateshead. The rally rules stipulate a "car less than 1000cc", and when it was sitting and shining at the photo shoot, our black LINGsCARS Seicento had seemed a fine choice. That was before three breakdowns ...
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