Watch out for Russians speeding in the deserts and Cape York.

On Monday 23 August whilst refuelling in Wiluna, two white 100 Series covered in serious ARB bling and Mickey T MTZ’s etc come into Wiluna to refuel also. The drivers had rally driver type gear on and the vehicles had a websites and other stickers on them, including a map of their intended route. Which is up the CSR, down the Tanami, across the Simpson, then to FNQ and up to Cape York.

I tried to speak to a few of them, they pointed me to Vlad, he spoke broken English and said they were going to drive to all of these places. I was impressed at their challenge. He then said they were going to do it in 3 weeks yep, I was no longer impressed Three weeks. I said you’ll damage your vehicles and be a danger to other travellers, ‘Ve have radio and flags, ve will be alright’ he said.

I added ‘you wont see much at that pace and you’ll do some serious damage to your vehicles’. He said ‘I tried to get them to stop before dark last night but they just want to drive’ ‘No scencics’ he said. He also said one of the drivers is a European off road rally champion.

I checked out their website tess.ru and sure enough they are flying, should be in Halls Creek toady 28 August i.e. the CSR in 6 days.

So if you’re out there or are in contact with friends out there let them know of the Russians intended route and that they may get a shock when a bull bar greets them at high speed on a dune crest.

If anyone has an up date on how they are going re vehicle damage or damage to tracks or better still can read Russian on their website please advise.

Cheers

Phil