The Finke’s on This Weekend
Posted on June 10, 2017 Tags: Finke Desert Race Western Australia
West Aussies Show the Way!
Toby Price, Australia’s first Dakar Rally winner.
It’s the 42nd running of the Finke which traverses extremely rugged terrain that “is best tackled with long-travel suspension and heavy-duty bash plates”, according to organisers.
Toby Price, the first Aussie to win Dakar – the world’s most challenging desert race – is a five-time Finke winner.
Last year he won the motorcycle category outright. But but he’s racing four wheels in ’17 because he’s still recovering from a particularly nasty broken leg from this year’s Dakar.
Among his many challengers is US off-road hero Harley Letner who has won the legendary Baja 500 desert race twice and is undefeated in the 2017 US Best of the Desert Series.
Whoever wins the coveted bike trophy will have to beat the likes of brothers Todd and Jacob Smith on their mighty Hondas.
The 2017 Finke Desert Race finishes Monday, June 12.
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