Mongol Rally

fellow Veeky Forumstits
I'm a baguette and I want to travel around in a shitbox from London to Mongolia

Should I ?

I was thinking about a 4L (In case I would want to take part in the 4L Trophy later on)

I've got basic knowledge of mechanics as a "car guy" but none of my friends are. They would basically be deadweight but I don't care

What concerns me the most is the money

I'm saving to buy 206 RC to start racing and go fast innawoods and my current car project is to restore an AW11 which takes lots of time and money too

Is it easy to get sponsorships ?
Is there anyone in here who already did the Rally ?

BUMP

Or I was thinking about a panda

>London to Mongolia
Good fucking luck.

Ask around your local shops, businesses and whatnot. Every little bit helps.
You might also want to send mails to the bigger companies like Coca-Cola, Red Bull, betting companies and onwards, as you never know what their response will be

Pic related; couple of guys I know is taking this one from Oslo to the Mongol Rally and then hopefully back

Thanks

Yeah that's a pretty good idea
There's not many baguettes trying this rally out since we already have four similar idiotic charity-axed races

Coming back might be more difficult and shit
As I am a student and work full time(night shifts), 5 weeks might be the maximum amount of time I could spare for the race

>mfw I'll cross Ukraine

Keep your Geiger-counter close and your vodka closer

Just like that, not lifted, road tyres?

kek of course
Even if Chernobyl is prettier during autumn

That's the point

Anyways if I bought a Panda 4x4 I might want to lift it, and bring a couple off-road tyres

>Should I ?
No.
Unless you can carry an entire second car for parts, you really, really should not.
I'm not sure you realize how much distance there is, and how shitty the roads will be.
And once you'll be stuck somewhere in Russia with a broken 4L and the closest spare part is 3000km away, and your fuel is freezing in your fuel tank because the car was never designed to tackle -25°c, and the only way out is an helicopter you can't call because you don't speak russian and they don't speak english and it would take them at least a couple hours to get to your place, maybe you'll start to realize why this wasn't such a good idea in the first place.
This sirt of thing would already be very dangerous in a new car, doing it in an old, beaten up shitbox held together by tape is suicidal.
>inb4 but that guy went arround the world in a CX
with a convoy
>inb4 but muh Top Gear trips
with a fucking convoy
>inb4 it's a great trainign for the 4L trophy
the 4l trophy is a meme, it's motorsport for people who don't like motorsport and the only sucessful attempt at making it hip and quirky. You're essentially going on an "adventure" doign the speed limite on spanish countryside roads.

Well that's why they recommand using a Micra, lots of parts available during the whole trip

A 4L is shit, I changed my mind anyways

I barely speak Russian, Greek and arabian ( arab is like a second tongue to us)

There's still a "convoy-like" mindset, there's always two to three cars teamed up for the whole trip

>the 4l trophy is a meme

4L trophy is shit, should be exclusively for students but it's overpriced and there's something wrong with giving school equipments in the middle of february

I don't want to ruin myself for charity desu

I'm much more interested in racing but travelling to Iran seems so fun and interesting and visiting Turkmenistan's gateway to hell would be great