Update From Mongolia

This morning at 12:29am I received the following text:
"I'm broken down in Mongolia!
Rear axle broke. It took out the lower cv joint. This sucks."

Then at 4:41pm another text arrived:
"9 hours waiting in the desert. Waiting in the desert with a lovely Mongol family. On a truck now to Kovd"

And at 6:37pm this post:
"On my way to the welder!"

It's a shame, because this incident has dropped "team ladybug" from a very respectable 2nd place down to 10th place in the rally. With the roads so bad, we can only hope that the remaining 40 percent of cars who haven't yet experienced mechanical difficulties, will also have a breakdown at some point so as to even out the playing field and allow "team ladybug" to catch up again in the overall total time.