🚗💨The 2023 edition of the Toyota GazooRacing 1000 Desert Race in Botswana at the end of June lived up to its reputation as an event of mixed emotions. Read more on TheCitizenMotoring 👇
Gazoo Racing 1000 Desert Race in Botswana at the end of June lived-up to its reputation as an event of mixed emotions.On the one hand, the third round of the South African Rally-Raid Championship was jubilation for Ford, who finally managed to get one over arch-rivals, Toyota, by taking a 1-2 finish after the Japanese marque’s runaway success in the first two rounds of this year’s series.
While this meant missing the qualifying race, the centrepiece would be the traditional early morning start from the Jwaneng showgrounds on Saturday and then tracking the competitors throughout the first 450 km split into two loops of 225 km each.The second day was to be the most punishing over two loops of 275 km in order to make up the full 1 000 km through the Botswana bush.
For yours truly, the experience was surreal and, it has to be said, tinged with some emotion as memories of staring at the screen from ’95 came flooding back.No sooner had it all started, it was anything but “in the cars and off into stage” at one of the many spectator points. The sheer lunacy was something else and although Botswana police were present, mostly at crossing points where the route intersected the main tar roads, the competing tracks were still ‘open’ similar to what the Safari Rally in Kenya once was.
It was while chatting with the locals that the essence of Botswana showed itself. Besides the friendliness of the population, their love for motorsport is intoxicating and, arguably, more so than South Africans’.
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