I remember a guy during a desert race (Vegas to Reno) a few years back who crashed in the final 50 miles and punctured his lung. He got back on and finished. I can’t even imagine what being on a bike in that terrain must be like with a punctured lung

How about rugby?

With the size of that homologation fee I suspect the only Polo we might see running this year is the 2016 model

You are indeed correct, which is a large part of why homologation costs so much.

Two words: “too slow”

No joke, this is my ringtone, starting at 15 seconds in

As I said in another comment, for rally this is no more dangerous than normal. I co-drive, and there are spots at a number of rallies where we know if we get it wrong we’re going to die. Not we might die, WE. WILL. DIE.

No worse than the trees, bridges, guardrails, and cliffs of normal rally

What they really need to do is give them a proper RX car

Rory won me over with this

EXTREME DUSTYBAIT

Always

Yep

He’s not a Bond villain, he’s Hank Scorpio

It’s more of a budgeting/planning issue

I may already be on that entry list

Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

We were five or six cars behind them at NEFR. Usually I wouldn’t get into the car until after watching them launch

The best coverage is on WRC+, but it’s a subscription service (totally worth it in my book). Next season Red Bull TV will be providing some free coverage as well.

It very nearly is. The off-season is just mid-November to mid-January