![]() The resulting adventure is replete with colorful characters, hair-raising action and enough raw machismo to knock over an elephant. ![]() He solicited the help of several seasoned riders and began an intensive training process to prepare for the race. For his next move, he decided to make good on an offhand comment about entering the Dakar Rally. Boorman, a part-time British actor and motorcycle enthusiast, had a brief moment in the limelight with a reality-TV show and later a book ( Long Way Round, 2005) that chronicled his adventures with pal Ewan McGregor as they circumnavigated the globe on their bikes. ![]() The Dakar Rally is an insane 15,000-kilometer chase across the desert to Dakar, Senegal, that involves dirt, death and a voracious African weed called “camel grass.” Professional riders and venturesome journeymen from all over the world enter the event every year, hoping to prove their mettle, and some of them never make it home alive. A struggling actor enters one of the most dangerous motorcycle races in the world and kicks up a lot of dust. ![]()
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