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D&G Buggies @ Croatia Trophy
We are very happy to announce the good results from Nico Ladang and Peter Whitman and their co-drivers at the Croatia Trophy 2010.
They both finished this very tough edition of the trophy!
Peter Whitman was really pushing his D&G Spidertrax portal axled Humbug to the limit and was on his way to take the 2nd place overall! Unfortunately on the last day due to a roll the wheelstuds of the rear wheel broke off which which resulted in a DNF for the last day. This resulted in a 7th place which is still an amazing result!
Nico Ladang in his orange D&G buggy suffered with a three that damaged the cooling fan which meant that he couldn’t push the engine to the limit. Still he and his co-driver were able to get to the 11th place!
Congratulations to both teams with this great result!
Some pictures:
Croatia Trophy 2010: Day 1
Today the first day of the trophy, we just got in a picture from the line up at the start.
As soon as we get more info, You will find it on here!
Croatia Trophy 2010: Prologue
Yesterday it was time for the first test of the competitors!
They had to drive the prologue to determine the starting order for the first real day (today – saturday)
both teams did great! Pete and Adrian with and Nico and his codriver werner became 2nd!
some pictures and the ranking of the prologue! More pictures later today on here and on http://croatia-trophy.org/offroad/2010/05/01/the-prologue/
Croatia Trophy 2010: Live Update!
It is again time for the amazing Croatia Trophy!
This year two of our customers take part at the trophy!
Peter Whitman and his Co-Driver Adrian Turner with the Yellow Humbug on Portalled Spidertrax Spider 9’s and Nico Ladang with his Co-Driver Ben Flamaing from team Off-Roadrunner with their orange D&G Buggy on spidertrax axles!
Of course we wish them both best of luck and will try to give you a daily update on their performances!
A few pictures we received this morning from Pete (the trophy only starts tomorrow so last checkups of the cars is done today!)
Spidertrax Spider 9’s take 2nd place in French Extreme!
The X-treme Challenge organized by our good friend Gilles Girousse is one of the toughest challenges in Europe!
a D&G Tuning-twisted customs buggy managed to grab the 2nd place with the Spidertrax Spider 9 axles!
some pictures:
Congratulations with this great result!
King of the Hammers 2010
Last week some Customers from D&G 4×4 Tuning travelled to the USA to follow the worlds toughest 4×4 event: The King of the Hammers 2010
Thanks to Stefan Pracht and Fiona Richardson for the pictures!
This is a first selection, more pictures will follow soon!
A video found on youtube:
The Baskerville Challenge 09: Humbug and Fire Ant
Last weekend the Humbug had its first test at the Baskerville Challenge in North Wales.
Andy Chaplin, co-driver of Pete on the Humbug wrote a short report of the weekend:
After some very late nights and early starts at D&G Tuning we left with the humbug on friday evening for its first outing the baskerville challenge in north wales.
We arrive at the hotel at 1.30am and people come out to see the car at 7.30am we go outside to load our equipment for the day to find the car surrounded by people asking what things do how things work.
We start at stage 6 and it does take long for pete to get into the swing of 450 hp and he powers up though a boulder strewn gully we collect and power out of this section and into section 7 a steep hill climb we lost the front arb locker so we we just went for the power option and used the winch the winches are Gigglepin GP82 and now 24volt into 12 volt motors and pull like a ls2 at full chat. once we got to the top of the hill we fixed the arb hose which was a simple rerouting of the ARB air pipe to fix.
stage 8 was a very steep descent and gave us a test of the rear steer and the year winch both worked very well we collected the punches and got onto stage 9 a reverse winch down hill for 38mts pete just hit the winch button and descended using his rear steer all the way down collecting his punches on the way
stage 10/1112 went with out drama but for stage 13 it all ended up on the side then the roof and then the side pete was making lots of funny noises once he came to a rest we got him back on his wheels and on his way the only damage was a piece of lexon popped out the roof and peters ribs a little sore but he’s a big lad and he will get over it!
on to stage 14 last one of the day a rock crawl that was more like a few pebbles when you have 500mm of ground clearance then a 38mtr winch pulls followed by a long winch down and the a big rock crawl and then back to parc ferme
for a test weekend first time out the workmanship that D&G have produced id fantastic a brand new buggy completed 2 days in a very tough uk competition and is now back in belgium having a view tweaks
thank you to D&G and all help we have received in building this buggy!!
In the meanwhile the Humbug is back in our workshop for a last finishing touch, and we took the axles apart and are very happy with the result. After a whole weekend of tough testing, the new portal boxes didn’t had any problems!
Some pictures and a video from last weekend, thanks to “Alan” and “Kevin Thomas”.
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