The Challenge

Described as the wacky races meets scrapheap challenge, the Plymouth-Dakar rally has for five years been the embarrassing poor relation of the bona-fide championship event, the Paris-Dakar Rally. For the potty Plymouth version, which raises funds for charity, performance vehicles are substituted for bashed-up bangers (which must be purchased for under £100) and the entourage of support teams and film crews are substituted for absolutely nothing, in the 3000 mile, 22 day scramble to Africa.