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30/05/2026

What a convoy 👏🤩🍊🧡

26/05/2026

Amazing weekend in Holland 🇳🇱
Awesome roads, great people and some incredible convoys. Huge thanks to Land Rover Club Holland for organising an unforgettable trip 👏 already looking forward to the next one! 🍊

24/05/2026

Ending the day hearing stories from some of the 2006 G4 Challenge Competitors - Brian, Gary, Nora, Thijs and Robert 🍊

23/05/2026

Busy day today! A few green lanes, visit to Overloon War Museum and meet up at Roan 4x4 🍊🇳🇱

22/05/2026

Made it to LRCH family weekend 🍊🇳🇱🧡

21/05/2026

Experience of a lifetime🍊🧡

20 years ago today, the 18 Land Rover G4 challenge competitors and the whole crew that made this incredible event happen boarded planes to fly home to locations across the entire globe. With truly new lifelong friendships forged in competition and shared wonder, adventure and adversity. With “farewell, for now” a common theme, as contact details were shared and Facebook accounts set up, just in case this new fangled social media thing takes off!
Last nights award ceremony and celebration event left a few well earned hangovers, but the announcement of our 18 individual positions at the end of 4 weeks adventure were revealed; Martin received his trophy and I was honoured and humbled to receive the Team Spirit Award, voted by competitors and staff, with my name engraved below Tim Pickering from 2003.
I simply can’t leave this set of reminiscences without massive thanks to a huge number of people who brought this epic event to life: Land Rover themselves for having the vision to promote their fantastic brand and vehicles in such an awe inspiring way; Niki Davies for such visionary leadership and Event Direction; Simon Day and D3 for the incredible competition , logistics and locations; the marshals and drivers, some of whom I didn’t meet until the final party; the international media who followed our progress as passengers; and never forgetting the incredibly talented word, voice, video and photo artisans who so exquisitely captured our adventures, so we didn’t have to think about it! Reliving these memories has been a roller coaster, but my final thanks has to go to my colleagues, friends and family at home, and most of all my parents, my brother & my fabulous wife Ellie ❤️ who all supported me through training, selections, yet more training and being away from home for 5 weeks. Looking after an inspiration of our first daughter Charlotte, who I missed incredibly, but drove me on to do my best whilst away in competition! (Davina joined our adventures in June 2007, & is equally an inspiration too!) 🧡🧡🧡 The mantra we created (Jonty!😘): “Stronger, Harder, Faster!”

20/05/2026

It’s been a pleasure reading Brians memories everyday, can’t believe it’s coming to an end.. the whole recollection has been spectacular🍊🧡

20 years ago today the whole Land Rover G4 team woke up in the last campsite of the 2006 event, tonight would be hotel beds and well earned on all counts, competitors, staff, media, we’d all had a hard, but incredible final week in Bolivia!🇧🇴 spectacular doesn’t even come close to describe it! 🧡 But first, we had to convoy to the stage final location, another river valley, but bigger than yesterday, yet the convoy needed to park on every inch of space, this was a must see show!
Niki Davies stood on a Range Rover bonnet to announce the much anticipated final 4 competitors to face the finale and a chance to win a brand new Range Rover! No surprises in the 4: Martin, Kris, Dmitry then JB. The order and score difference was a slight surprise, but Martin and Kris had been mighty this week and Dmitry had struggled with losing dibbers, hence points.
The final involved zip line into the valley, a mind maze of flag poles to solve, kayak down stream, mountain bike, run, drive, mental challenge (that would have included climbing to the basket of the hot air balloon but the wind was too squally) then finally run up the river to finish by slapping the bonnet of the Range Rover in the middle of the river, with the rest of us 14 competitors on it!
It was a thrilling race to watch, clearly all 4 putting maximum effort, but as hard as Kris tried, he couldn’t quite make up the time advantage Martin’s score had given him, Martin Dreyer of South Africa was a brilliant, deserving and extremely likeable winner!
I’ll save the final post about the prize ceremony at the hotel until tomorrow…. So one last post to come! 🧡

19/05/2026

What an unforgettable adventure! And that convoy, wow!🔥😍🍊🧡

20 years ago today the 9 teams of stage 4 on the Land Rover G4 challenge 2006 disbanded for the final time! We were all solo competitors again, having trodden a complex path of collaboration and combat, with a fair smattering of fortitude and fate thrown in, we all stood on our own with just the stage 4 final event to go!
The convoy from the penultimate camp was simply epic! I had to pinch myself to not realise I was actually driving in this camel trophy style continuous stream of tangier orange vehicles, kicking up dust, twisting and turning down the most incredible mountain road towards the valley setting for the stage final, with helicopter photo/film cover buzzing overhead, but bitter sweet as today would pretty obviously be my last competition of the G4 challenge, given only the top 4 would compete tomorrow for a chance to win the Range Rover!
The queue of vehicles was intense, with two defenders set up and our 18 country flags fluttering on their roof racks. The aim, another eliminator, 18 start on mountain bikes, race down the gravel river bed, ditch the bike, run up the opposite valley side, then trek across the riverbed, up the first valley side to the defender carrying your flag, then plant it on the finish line.
I’m not sure how many times I competed, but I got a headstart each time on the mountain bike section, but generally was back into the mid pack on the run/scramble.
The power houses of Martin, JB, Kris and Dmitry were all at the front, knowing they had to get more points to get a better lead in the final tomorrow. I don’t have many photos of this event but an enduring memory of Kris powering to the finish on the final round, running when he wasn’t being chased actively and could have rested, in a show of strength! The rest of us endured and tried to enjoy our last event on this fantastic opportunity of a lifetime! 😎🧡

18/05/2026

Frustrating day for Brian and Marco! 🍊

20 years ago today the Land Rover G4 challenge competitors set off for the final day of remote competitions. Marco & I had struggled all week with longer distances between locations and our lower strategy pit departure time meaning we’d probably not scored as many points as the other teams, the top few teams doing 4 or 5. Today we did 3 remote competitions before we had to head to the compulsory event that was a mass start and had a strict cut off time to arrive.
We raced through a spectacular canyon system on foot visiting 5 dibbers secured in the deep ravine: spectacular! Then tackled a winching exercise using the spare tyre as an anchor in the sand to create a zip line to pass equipment down to Marco on the riverbed: great fun and iconic Land Rover wilderness ingenuity!
All whilst still over 4000m but our bodies getting more used to the thin air.
But then came the drive to the compulsory competition, I thought we’d left enough time, our visa (a matrix of allowable time between all events of that day) agreed, but it seemed our team support driver (allocated at random each week and tasked with driving competitor no.2’s car along behind, in case we needed it, carrying our kit and media who wanted to follow us closely) decided differently! They kept holding back on the convoy of 2 drive, not signalling on the radio of any problem, nor trying to stay close. With this dawdling the time cut off to Kill Hill was getting very close! Then a radio call “I’ve lost you, I can’t see you”, so we had to turn around and go back to find them! 🕰️ By the time we’d gone back, had a talking to that they “felt” we were driving too fast (opinion, not borne in fact!) I realised we’d missed the cut off time and hence would lose our whole day’s points! 😡 we arrived at Kill Hill to see our fellow competitors racing up a precipitous incline trying to capture flags of different points value, with Kris right at the top shouting in triumph again! 🇧🇪 A very frustrating final day for Marco and I, assuring our minds that neither would be in the final 4 tomorrow, and all of this played out in the vacinity of Butch Cassidy & The Sun Dance Kid’s shoot out finale: irony!? 🧡

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