January 1988 and the Paris-Dakar rally was mired in controversy after a catalogue of death and injury showed the course to be simply too gruelling, according to Autosport, a reminder of the dangers that the rallying world customarily faced.
“Several competitors suffered serious injury after various incidents. Jean Marie Liginieres rolled his Range Rover and was paralysed from the waist down; a mechanic was lucky to escape alive when he was run over while asleep in the bivouac and co-driver Patrick Canado was killed having been thrown from Rene Boubet’s Range Rover as it somersaulted away from an accident involving the Mercedes 280GE of Yamaha support driver Klaus Seppi.”
To read the full story of the carnage in the Sahara, head for Autosport here.
