Dakar Ready
SA4x4|January 2017

Winner of our BF Goodrich competition, Carine Reyneke, was whisked off to charge about the dunes of Namibia in a Dakar rally car prepped for the Redlined Motorsport team. This is her story... 

Dakar Ready

The GPS showed that the Coke can was about half a kilometre straight ahead of where we were, but the afternoon heat had made the dune sand soft and treacherous. After the second unsuccessful attempt to go straight up the windward (the more gradual) side of the dune, we had to find a way around it. We were in a Dakar Rally race-ready Nissan Navara, playing not far from Walvis Bay in the giant sandpit that is the Namib Desert. And, after a few days of racing up, down and sideways on dunes, deliberately getting the vehicles stuck, digging them out and even jumping them, it was now time for the final challenge. Our Namibian hosts had hidden a few cans of Coke in the desert and brought back the coordinates. Our task was to fetch them. (The Coke cans, not the coordinates).

"I can run 500 m," I told Luke, one of the rally drivers who is in training for Dakar 2018. Secretly, I was a bit scared that wed get properly stuck in the sand and have to dig the car out.

"Naaaah. We have a car; let's drive there," he insisted.

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