I just race a motorcycle
and get to do a job that I
love to do...
rough two weeks of Dakar and all they really
want to do is have a nice cold beer and
pretty much write themselves off.
BM: You ride in some utterly spectacular
places. Do you ever just go “Oh wow, man,
that’s just awesome”, or is it head down bum
up the whole time?
TP: In the middle of the stage there might
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be a couple of spots where you can have
a look, or if you’ve got a gap and a bit of a
distance between each note, you can take
in something. But the majority of the time,
if you’re at 170km/h across sand dunes or a
track that’s not there, you’re pretty focused
on what you’re doing.
BM: Is it weird being mega-famous? You’ve