Pictures from Novemberkasan 2012

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Hi!

...we've got this little rally called "Novemberkasan" here in Sweden every year.
Known as the most brutal enduro race in the world.

300 km's more or less incl transport stages (210 k's of specials yesterday), based on three laps, one lap of all stages in the daylight, 2 laps in the dark.

Snow and cold arrived just a few days ago, and the thermometer showed -5 celsius during the day, and went down to -10 over night.

Very, very wet...mixed with transport stages in seriously cold weather.
The winner Joakim Ljunggren won in just above 5 hours of time on the stages, the last one to make it (64 made it out of ~150 starting) crossed the finish line with an additional five hours on the time.

A few pics I shot of the riders during the day stage, SS1 and SS3.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=4a449d1814

A few movies from the night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQhKTZTtK8k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiRROn96dMI

More pics

http://www.faskunge.com/NOVEMBERKASAN2012/

A couple of friends of mine took the challenge, one crashed out on a extreme test, the other had a complete light failure on the first night stage.

I am tempted to try it myself...how difficult could it be, start at 09.00, and hopefully finish in the middle of the night?