The Rainforest Challenge Has Entered Its Fifth Year And It Is Bigger Than Ever.
I was trudging through ankle-deep slush to get to the stage. This trail went on for nearly a kilometre and I had no choice but to walk it as our taxi wouldn’t have made it past the first five metres. If I was lucky, one of the many D-Max V-Cross pick-ups being used as support vehicles by the event organisers would pass by and I’d hop into the back. No such luck yet, so I continued to walk. This was the easy bit. Getting into the stage and finding a good spot to shoot from was slightly harder. As slippery as this trail was, once you turned off the main trail, you were in a dense, virgin forest. So now, it was slippery and tricky to manoeuvre through. Then there was the danger of getting ploughed down by an out-of-control vehicle, getting sliced in half by a snapped winch cable, or just embarrassingly losing footing and cracking your skull on a rock. Fun. That’s when I heard it — the unmistakable burble of a straight-piped V8 engine — so I scrambled to get off the track to someplace safe.
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THE PERFECT RECIPE FOR KARI FT. EUROGRIP
What happens when you do track days in the name of pushing the limits of a tyre
ROOKIE BLUES
Acosta Urged for Patience as KTM Chases Ducati
THE VALUE OF TIME
Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen
DJI Osmo Action 4
Being an automotive journalist, our job entails us to ride motorcycles of all kinds and not to forget, the life behind driving some exotic set of wheels as well.
WAR WORDS WORLDS
Indians might not have played a deciding role in the previous world wars but now, our participation is much more evident
XTREME MACHINE
Maserati's racing history is a patchwork of epic highs and long absences, so can the MCXtrema - a track only version of its latest supercar-bring back the glory days?
WET AND WILD
No doors, no roof, no boot, but at least there's a windscreen... Paul Horrell pulls on his waterproof trousers and takes the Nomad 2 for a spin
STREAM W0RKS
This is an MG. Yes, really. Turns out it's got form in streamliners too...just ask Stirling Moss
A map and a compass.
Dacia got a foothold in the UK with cheapness, now it wants toughness on its CV. Can the new Duster handle Morocco's heat and locate a Dakar team in the desert - no GPS allowed?
A RECKLESS DEVELOPMENT?
Farewell, V10, this is the new Lamborghini Temerario, a 907bhp V8 hybrid. A worthy Huracán successor, or a misstep from the Italian firm?