Meet the team

Dominic - the group's token hobbit, Dominic is responsible for all the technical duties of the team (by which we mean the website). He has had just 1 significant car crash to date, but only broke his arm and closed the M5 for a bit, so we still trust him to drive. Dominic is consequently half-man half-machine, with his entire left arm being made from some form of titanium alloy.

Stuart brings the only clean drivers licence to the team, despite being unfairly labelled as having an 'Essex boy' driving style. Stuart works for the University of Exeter, and is the second team member to reside in the city. Regular 400 mile journeys to his North Yorkshire parental home have stood him in good stead to deal with the rigours of high mileage touring, even if it hasn't prepared him for the horrors of sharing a car with 3 other hairy, smelly people (otherwise known as his friends). As a fierce West Ham United fan, Stuart plans to spread the West Ham name and colours across one third of the world. Opinion remains divided as to how this will be received, however...

Patrick - perhaps the scariest choice of driver on the team is Paddy with his inability to keep a car on the road for more than a year of ownership. With at least 4 write-offs under his belt, only his claim that none were his fault has kept him in the driving seat. Paddy is our resident mechanic, on the sole basis that he knows one end of a screwdriver from the other, and is able to hold multiple car parts in his gargantuan (frankly rather scary) paws. He is also the only team member with any previous experience of having guns waved at him, although whether or not this is a good thing remains to be seen...

Michael - having recently been caught for speeding, Michael is under no illusions that this could possibly happen in our little fiesta, and is therefore considered among the safer of us. Michael is hopeful of securing vast amounts of corporate sponsorship for the journey from 'sources', most of which will remain unknown to the rest of the group. With the smoothest face of the four (not to mention the majority of the population), Michael may try and use the rally as an excuse to grow a pitiful beard, but just might get confused for a girl in some of the hairier middle-eastern countries.