The Dakar rally is considered one of the most dangerous races to partake in, its held once a year and I think it was brilliant broadcasting to stick posh boy Charley Boorman on a high powered motorcycle and put him in the middle of it all, the absurdity of the premise can only be comparable to the scene of Diehard 3 when John Mclaine’s forced to walk through the ghetto wearing a sandwich board that read “I hate black people”.
Charley set off with two others who were like his Nepalese mountain guides on bikes, one a little known English guy just grateful to be away from home and the other a prima donna harden Aussie who had cheated a Dakar death twice before.
The two guides took off as soon as the rally started and left clueless Charley to effectly die in the desert if it were not for the very expensive production crew commissioned to follow him.
Charley’s Dakar came to an abrupt end when near exhaustion a speck of sand obscured his vision and he hit a rock and nose dived into the sand, unlike ‘The Rock’ in the movie ‘Scorpion king’ he didn’t arise heroically from the sand he lay there whimpering until the production crew who were all of ten feet behind him the entire journey and in constant radio contact disembarked the truck and lavished him with sympathy, hot beverages and praise.
It was the end for Charley he would have to nurse the suspected broken bone in his hand in the comfort of an entourage and catering tents, he seemed to recover enough to text his wife, meanwhile the Aussie ploughed on and on knowing he had Charley’s full support which was radioed through to his helmet by Charley at the other end of a walkie talkie as he starred lovingly into the camera lens which made all the difference as Aussies are remarkably sentimental.
Days later the Aussie came into the finishing flag blind and gagging on desert flies with Charley waving gayfully at him, there was a brief sombre moment when it was announced a few people had died trying to conquer the course, but Charley’s mood quickly lifted when his best bud Ewan McGregor arrived as a publicity stunt to raise the profile of the event oh … and the catering tent was again open for business.
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It was the end for Charley he would have to nurse the suspected broken bone in his hand in the comfort of an entourage and catering tents, he seemed to recover enough to text his wife, meanwhile the Aussie ploughed on and on knowing he had Charley’s full support which was radioed through to his helmet by Charley at the other end of a walkie talkie as he starred lovingly into the camera lens which made all the difference as Aussies are remarkably sentimental.
Days later the Aussie came into the finishing flag blind and gagging on desert flies with Charley waving gayfully at him, there was a brief sombre moment when it was announced a few people had died trying to conquer the course, but Charley’s mood quickly lifted when his best bud Ewan McGregor arrived as a publicity stunt to raise the profile of the event oh … and the catering tent was again open for business.
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