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Day 21
21. May
2000, Samarkand to Tashkent
The road
from Samarkand to Tashkent was a nicely built highway, but we took a little
detour through the mountains between Qizil Tut and Yangi Kishlok. Unfortunately
the weather was bad and rainy, but the road had been recently repaired
on the worst parts which was a pleasant surprise. We raced rather quickly
through the hundreds of pot holes, but we still lost 4 minutes total in
this 59 minute section. A lot of cars took heavy damage today. Broken
axles, smashed oil sinks, crushed check absorbers, ... an seemingly endless
list of repairs that cars had to do. We arrive in Tashkent quite early
at 3 PM and take a very close look at the car to make sure that we don't
overlook any possible damage, since the most difficult parts of the journey
in central Asia are still ahead.
| TC 66: Samarkand Out |
8:
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31 |
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| TC 67: Qizil Tut |
10:
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11 |
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| TC 68: Yangi Kishlok |
11:
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10 (4 minutes penalty) |
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| TC 69: Tashkent In |
15:
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59 |
241.20 km |
Overall 41 minutes
penalty
The
official results can be looked up on this website
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Obviously the
Canadian team arrived here before we did
The road takes
us right across the hills to Tashkent.
We were running
very low on fuel today since most gas stations are closed on Sunday
mornings. Fortunately there was high octane fuel at TC 69 from a
tank truck (Everything above 76 is high octane.)
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The local people
of Qizil Tut are watching the cars taking off from the check point
Unfortunately
it starts to rain heavily right in the worst part of the track about
30 minutes before Yangi Chick.
And we reach
Tashkent early around 3 PM
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