Team Aristotle - Building a Micra for the Mongol Rally
We are Team Aristotle, taking on the Mongol Rally in a Nissan Micra K11.
The team consists of Dimitri Raptis, a surgeon, and Anastasios Milonidis, a car mechanic. Different backgrounds, same goal: get a very small car across a very big continent.
The team name is in memory of Dimitri’s father, Aristotle, who passed away recently. This rally is both an adventure and a tribute.
Our Micra is currently being prepared including suspension, brakes, engine repairs, basic protection, roof rack, lighting, keeping the car as simple and repairable as possible.
Small car. Big road.
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Anastasios Milonidis getting the Micra K11 ready for the long road to Central Asia.
Mongol rally 2026, in skoda fabia. Four young guns from Denmark Nikolaj, Max, Eddie and Martin going on a propper adventure. Not dead set on the rute, we'll se where the wind takes us. See you at the start line in Czechia
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Three crazy spaghetti eaters ready to cross The most Rugged desert just to bring their Fiat Panda to Kazakhstan. Members: Riccardo - map clerk and you have devices Matteo - the only one who knows English Andrea - driver Veichle: FIAT Panda Young 1100cc. Route: Rome - Prague, Slovacchia,Ungheria, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and fKazakhstan. Go back to Italy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lapanda_dellapriliana
Team name: Two guys, one Yaris
Drivers: Miha and Teo ( contructional enginees in the making from Slovenia)
Car: Toyota Yaris, 1.0L of pure power
Strengths:
- Built-in cup holders for mid-stage beer breaks.
- The horn works really well for scaring goats
- It’s a Toyota
Weaknesses:
- Everything else.
Our strategy: Drive like we stole it, but very carefully because it’s actually Miha’s daily commuter and he needs it for the school run on Monday.
If you see a small black Yaris going suspiciously slowly through the stans while two Slovenians argue about whose turn it is to navigate, that’s us. Give us a wave, or better yet, some spare spark plugs.
We are going through Iran and would love to have some company when drinking beer in the evenings.
We created an instagram acc that you can freely follow and get in contact with us;)
@1tcrane
See you at the finish… or the nearest ditch. Whichever comes first.
Team Two guys one Yaris (1tcrane)
Team Name: Cani Rabbiosi (Rabid Dogs in Italian)
Members: Simone (aka Grande Capo - Big Boss) and Leonardo (aka Piccolo Falco - Little Hawk)
Veichle: FIAT Panda Young, red like blood and fast like the wind
Route: Italy - Prague, then eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and finally (possibly) Kazakhstan. Not sure if we'll make it out of Italy though.
Four wheels, one brain cell, two rabid dogs. We are hungry, feed us. We are coming, expect us. We are dogs, fear us.
We made and Istagram for our team, feel free to follow us, we'll do the same. In this way we'll rejoice for our success and tears for our inevitable demise will be less salty.
Cani Rabbiosi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cani.rabbiosi?igsh=dzRxOHBhYmQ3bDBu
See you on the road, dogs!
Team Name: Yaris i baris (which roughly translates to shirtless in Yaris)
Members: Benjamin, Jonas, Jonas and Nikolai
Vehicle: Toyota Yaris Verso 05, with only 240k km on the odometer
Route: We want to visit as many of the 'stans as possible and also Iran.
Four guys in their mid 20s to very early 30s looking for the adventure of a lifetime. The team consist of a chiropractor, a film&TV-producer, a motorcycle salesman and an embedded manufacturing engineer (I'm not sure what that means, but I know he's very smart).
We just made the Instagram for our trip, which is why I'm shamelessly posting here now. It's very barebones, we just made our first post, but if you want to follow along, here it is https://www.instagram.com/yaris_i_baris26/
(yes, we suck at team photos. As our chiropractor barely made it into the frame. We'll get a better one before the trip probably... Maybe, possibly)
Team: Mistakes Were Made arrives as a one-man circus with three unimpressive celebrities and a mini-mini van that resents existing.
Driver: Daryl Daley, semi-retired Canadian, veteran, professionally stubborn.
Vehicle: “Cpl Bloggins – The Mighty Kangoo - Reporting for duty. Unarmed. Unfit. Unqualified.” Smells like old coffee and bad decisions.
Parody Co-pilots: Justin Trudeau, providing 400kg of aerodynamic ego drag; Mark Carney, elbows up, armed with charts and charisma set to airplane mode; Greta Thunberg, the loudest sock puppet in Scandinavia, yelling HOW DARE YOU every time the throttle moves.
Logistics strategy: pray, cable ties, and a laminated apology to border guards.
Nutrition plan: sausage, panic, warm water.
Mechanical plan: break, fix, repeat.
Morale plan: roast the Kangoo until it starts out of spite.
Objective: cross continents while making other teams feel better about their choices.
Contingency plan: none, which is the point.
This is the way.
Propper voyage on the Mongol rally in 2026, with a couple of mates from Denmark
