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THE 2017 FINKE Desert Race
winner Daymon Stokie has
been tragically killed in a crash
during the Deep Well Enduro
event in the Northern Territory,
on Saturday 27 January.
The 28-year-old earned a
reputation for being as tough
as he was talented after he won
the gruelling 452km off-road
race while racing with a brokenhand. In doing so, he became
the fi rst local Alice Springs
rider to win the Finke Desert
Race’s two-wheeled category
in 11 years.
Stokie was riding a wave
of success at the time of his
death, having celebrated a win
at the 2016 Baja 1000, he stood
on the top step of the podium
at the 2017 San Felipe 250 andwent on to take the outright
win at the 2017 Gasgoyne Dash
before claiming the Finke
Desert Race.
A spokesman for the St John
Ambulance said paramedics
attended Stokie at the scene
but he went into cardiac arrest
and was unable to be revived.
“It’s sometimes the shittiest
sport in the word with newslike this, but in one way you
truly went out on top, winning
everything in Australia and
overseas,” Australian Dakar
legend Toby Price said.
Tributes for the Aussie
rider have poured in from
all corners of the globe and
AMCN extends its sincerest
condolences to his family
and friends.Finke champion fatally injured in enduro race
Taken too soon: Daymon
Stokie was an enormous
talent and a man at
the peak of his off-road
racing career. The tragic
loss will be felt right
around the off-road
racing world