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FCs team in this year's Cape to 2:1 Cape challenge finished first in the off-road category and 10th overall, using BT's Globetrak satellite communication system to find their way through the three-day, 3,700 mile course from Cape Tarifa Citadel in Southern Spain to Northern Norway.
The course bad to be completed in the fastest time legally possible, sticking to local laws throughout the route.
Globetrak enabled the four-man team to keep up to date with weather and traffic conditions and to book ferry crossings in advance. The team's placing of first in the of-road" category at a time of 65 hours 47 minutes beat the previous Guinness world record of 61 hours 57 minutes. And the best news is that £20,000 was raised in sponsorship for the NFC MAC challenge for the MacMillan nurses charity.