Photo: Marcelo Maragni
won everything worth winning in Australia
and everyone knows you here, and you’re
the 2018 FIM World Rally champion, but
winning Dakar twice puts you in some pretty
rare air. How do you deal with that?
TP: Look, it’s cool to win these races,
especially Dakar. It is the ultimate off-road
race in the whole world. Everyone wants
to win that race and that’s the one to win.
But I don’t see myself as anyone special –
anyone walking past here is no different to
me. I just race a motorcycle and get to do a
job that I love to do. It doesn’t make me any
different. It’s good to have those two races
to my name, but I’ll never get a big head
about it.
BM: You’ve had some terrible personal
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