There’s nobody as far as the eye can see, and the sense of calm at close to 9000 feet is palpable. But that’s temporary. Light travels faster than sound; you see the dust before you hear the rise, fall and anti-lag chattering of a modern World Rally Car engine.
Two cars have passed already, and the three-minute window between Thierry Neuville and Sebastien Ogier has brought company. Over a hill from the collection of houses that call themselves El Chocolate (it’s here, around 2500 years ago, that the delight of the cocoa bean was, apparently, first discovered) comes a man in a hat. On a horse.
Beneath the obligatory, wide-brimmed headgear there’s a leathery face with eyes that look neither left nor right. Guiding the horse with his left hand leaves his…
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Autosport (Digital) - 1 Issue, 14/03/19