Rick Fuller lays down two of the most Aggressive Burnouts you’re likely to see at Summernats. The first being his Masters Qualifying skid which was an awesome display of driver control and was sufficient to secure a Top 10 spot into the Finals.

Rick started his finals skid with his usual aggressive tip-tin. After getting lost in the smoke in the exit chute, he started again and let loose on the pad.

Leaving aside the lousy navigators out there who manage to stretch the course like a rubber band, covering more than 850 km in a Dakar stage is something that happens once in a blue moon. It has only happened once in Saudi Arabia, in today’s return to competition on the road from Riyadh to Al Duwadimi, clocking in at a whopping 874 km, following the prescribed route to the letter.

Riders, crews and pundits often end up eating a slice of humble pie when the race ventures into the desert. After six stages, but with a whole week of competition under their belts, the entrants often derided as “daredevils” have proved resilient to the vagaries of fate, while the usual paragons of consistency have made one uncharacteristic blunder after another.