Ultimate Chelsea tractor: Prodrive Hunter meets central London

Ahead of we established off, I should really give you the back again tale. Prodrive makes good level of competition cars, as I’m certain you’re informed. GT and rally automobiles, most notably. Sébastien Loeb took a person of the latter to next position in the Dakar Rally in January. And this efficiently is a highway-going consumer model of that automobile.

It’s technically a street prototype and registered as a single, but it’s also the initial customer car or truck of 25, destined for the garage of the Bahraini royal who served finance and put the race group together. Each and every Hunter fees £1.5 million (right before selections and which include VAT), and three are accounted for so significantly.

Cross-country rallying is a brutal type of motorsport, possibly the most severe of all (while I can picture Icelandic hillclimbers could possibly have one thing to say about that), and the Dakar is its pinnacle occasion.

It is held in Saudi Arabia these times, its original North African routes becoming considered much too perilous to competitors (Saudi Arabia is in its place mainly perilous to minorities and human legal rights activists), but the rally by itself is however very demanding.

More than 13 times, 2500 miles of special levels and 2500 a lot more ‘liaisons’ between phases, it hammers as a result of the desert and, although absolutely at its most difficult for quad or motorcycle riders, it needs a special form of vehicle, as well.