Dakar 2021 In the time of COVID-19, organiser ASO created a “rally bubble”: participants and other parties were required to be tested for the Coronavirus no more than 72 hours before departure for Saudi Arabia. You were only allowed onto the charter flight organised by ASO with a negative test result. Upon arrival in Jeddah,…
Breslau Rallye 2020 Team Dust Warriors participated in the Breslau Rally in the summer of 2020 with the DAF rally truck and a Yamaha side-by-side. Just 100 kilometres after the start, on 15 September, the side-by-side toppled into a river while climbing a steep hill. With the help of another team, the side-by-side was put…
Afrika Eco race 2020 After arriving in Tangier on 4 January, the team began with a medical examination. There was a lot for the team to get used to at the start of the rally with the rocky surface, the dust, potholes, large dunes and the occasional chicken on the track. On the third day,…
PROLOGUE. 24 September 2018. This is the first time I hear and read the name William van Groningen. He has just purchased a DAF truck including a service truck. What I didn’t know then is that within two years this team would become a familiar face in the off-road world. March 2019. When I drive…
The Scania R500 started life as a flower truck at Lievaart (photo Rob de Visser) and moved on to Limi Trans (photo Arjan Dijkers). Today it is a mobile hotel, with a kitchen and dining room in the trailer for the Dust Warriors, the Van Groningen family’s rally team. Photos: Alex Miedema
