Road Warrior

Road WarriorJanuary 4, 1988--Hassi-Messaoud, AlgeriaNot for nothing has this Paristo-Dakar rally acquired an unrivaled reputation as the most miserable piece of work an off-road racer will ever see. People die in this thing. And don't let anyone tell you the course is 8000 miles. It may be 8000 miles on the rally map or in the official route book, but when you're out here for real on this endless expanse of boulders and sand dunes and dry lakes, zigzagging through Algeria and Niger and Mali and...