L
ess than 12 months
ago, Toby Price made
historyinscoringhis
fifthFinkeDesertRace
victory; equalling the
recordoflocalhero
Randall Gregory. Price
dominated the
weekendlikenoonebefore.
After winning theprologue he
made the Sundayrun south in 1hr
53min 19secbefore roostingbackto
Alice on Queen’s Birthday Monday in
an almost identicaltimeof1hr53min
35sec. Between rides, the Alpha male
from Aberglasslyn muscled a 6.0-litreGeiser Trophy Truckdown to Finke
andbackto takesecondoutrightin
theauto division.
This wasprobablyevenwilder than
Alice Springs MCCpresident Peter
Gunner ever imagined might happen
when he threw out a challengein
1976 to thehotshots ofthe territory to
put some excitement into thelong
weekend.SimplycalledtheThere
andBack,theracecouldn’thave
been simpler.
It involvedathirst-inducing
three-hour ride down totheFinke
(Apatula)pub,followedbyaneven
tougher run back the followingday.MAIN:Takethislittle guy outofthe 2017
picture and what do you have?
1 .Gall haswontwiceforYamaha
2.The whoops have got bigger with time
3.Gordon McDonald is first awayin 1982
4.PhilStoker andGeoff Curtis inspecta
burntout KTM 495 ontheir wayhome
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THE ORGANISERS NEVER realised HOW MUCH
EXCITEMENT THE FINKE DESERT RACE WOULD GENERATE
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