How to win the Dakar Rally, according to Toyota's Nasser Al-Attiyah
Experiencing it from the switchgear-rich cockpit is something very special indeed, and from lap two onwards, the fact that we’re leaping into the dust cloud generated by the last lap’s landing adds an additional frisson of excitement that absolutely isn’t needed. The smoothness of the landing is also plain unnerving, the damping metered out with impossible delicacy and control under the duress of obscene physics.
-sourced twin-turbo 3.5-litre V6 of this year’s winner, although as we roar past, nobody seems to mind this particular throwback.Back to top Al-Attiyah doesn’t talk much during our drive – the buzz of the engine and the whine of straight-cut cogs in the six-speed sequential gearbox are too loud for that – but later he tells me the upgrade has been transformative. Greater suspension travel has resulted in a more composed, neutral and faster car whose driver is better able to manipulate the handling and attitude through corners.
It seems this strident bulldozer of a racing car really handles once you’re dialled into its size and mass. If made to guess, I would have said it weighed no more than 1600kg. The sense of flow it achieves in the context of this is remarkable and the speed eye-watering. Exposure to all of this for the first time requires a genuine suspension of belief.
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