The term, "racing product" is just horrendous and total proof that the organizers have no respect for the actual racing, let alone the roots of the series.

Not moaning about it. Just didn't know as I haven't kept up with it in years now. So I asked.

Sure, it's the Paris-Dakar that I'm familiar with. Thanks for the explanation.

Because it's here in NC. Our freaking state tree is a telephone pole with a Camaro wrapped around it.

I'm still confused by the name of this. Do they end up in Dakar or is it just the nme of the series?

This article is, by far, the best thing I've read on Jalopnik. It's well researched, written, and edited with tons of very relevant photos. You even have a bibliography!

Amazing work! I do have a question though…

Thinking fake. Camera angle is very low to be held by a driver, the crash sound isn't very convincing, and the camera doesn't move with the violence you would expect for the type of crash it's supposed to be.

That looks like every video chat with everyone under 10 I have ever had with my kids. All they want to do is mess around and fill the screen with funny faces.

Keeping a large, obvious part of a car embedded in your body for half a century is some of the weirdest dragoning I've ever seen.

So he road on the rode? Sweet.

After such a hellish ride I hope he got the point.

The bigger issue is that tobacco advertising in sports is banned in most of the countries that they race in.

Sigh. Formula E already has enough of an image issue from their montley bunch of C list drivers.

No Isetta (9.5 HP) or Messerschmitt (9.9 HP)? I am disappoint.

I'm sorry, and I'm a big military hardware nerd, but all I see in this headline is "…Confused Clitoral Combat Ship".

"Mud Logging" sounds like code for sewer engineer. Like a Brown Trout fisherman.

"He drives the car, I carry it around."

Crushing an aluminum can is easy. Crushing a block of aluminum is really, really hard.