Prometheus Sponsors MaxAdventure's 'Moss Marathon'

The Max Adventure team are to recreate a historic drive by Stirling Moss as part of their 'warm-up’ training to the London to Cape Town run in support of Help the Heroes.

 Back in December 1952, at the same time as George Hinchliffe was battling his way across Africa to establish yet another new record to Cape Town, Stirling Moss and three co-drivers left Norway in an attempt to visit 15 countries in five days before arriving in Portugal.

The Max Adventure team’s challenge will be huge, even though they will be using modern vehicles, fitted with much more economical engines allowing greater fuel ranges. Speed limits will hinder their progress and the amount of traffic on the roads is probably ten-times that of 50 years ago.

More remarkably though, was that Stirling Moss and his team didn’t complete the 3,280 mile journey in five days, but in under four - 89 hours and 59 minutes!

Prometheus was delighted to sponsor them and prior to their trip the participants attended the Surviving Adventure Course, a course designed to train people with little or no medical experience to manage a medical emergency while off the beaten path or in a remote location.

You can follow their blogs about this historic journey at Oslo to Lisbon 2009 - "The Moss Marathon" :: Max Adventure