The European season is over on this yr’s World Rally Championship, and with it ends an equally epic journey.
A voyage of over 50,000 kilometers (or greater than 31,000 miles) spanning 150 days snapping the world’s best drivers in all climates from all angles – and all whereas driving (and sleeping in) a humble Citroën C1.
Rallying is all about pushing the bounds and embracing the unknown, and no one exemplifies that higher than Damien Patoux.
Like many people, he was launched to rallying because of his father, who took him to see the Monte Carlo Rally aged 10. That sparked a need inside him, so when he was sufficiently old to drive Damien was Sanremo-bound in a bid to pattern extra.
“Naturally, I wished to mimic all these nice pilots that I admired sliding round!” Damien tells DirtFish.
“Then I began competing in slaloms the place my outcomes lived as much as expectations after which I used to be fortunate sufficient to compete in three small rallies, ending all three with additionally passable outcomes.
“My final occasion thus far was in 2020.”
