NEW DELHI: "It felt the same like when I did the Dakar for the very first time. I loved it then and I love it now," says the 41-year-old.
Three years and nine months since suffering a near-fatal crash at the 2021 Dakar, India's pioneering rallyist, the first Indian to compete and complete the Dakar, made a comeback to the sport at the two-day Rallye TT Cuenca in October.
Santosh is no stranger to terrifying crashes. He is all scars. But none of them derailed his life the way the high-speed accident in 2021 did, leaving him with brain trauma, partial memory loss, double vision, loss of gross motor skills and depression.
Then began a long road to recovery for Santosh to bridge the gaps in his memory and to relearn basics, such as how to coordinate his hands, legs and get them to work together to achieve small tasks. But the off-roader from Bengaluru learnt quickly and was back on a two-wheeler in seven months.
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