The Finke Desert Race saw more than 400 rev-heads brave Australia's roughest and toughest track racing 223 kilometres from Alice Springs to the remote Aboriginal community of Apatula and back.
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00 An emotional victory decades in the making.
00:03 Bo Robinson and navigator Shane Hutt crossing first in Alice Springs.
00:08 The 48th running of the Tad's Fink Deseret.
00:12 Robinson claiming his first King of the Desert crown after 17 finks and six podium finishes.
00:20 Come close so many times that it wasn't so much counting our chickens until about 10k out
00:26 we sort of decided we could half celebrate in the car, you know.
00:30 Breaking the title drought for his motorsports family and dedicating the victory to his late father.
00:36 He's the reason we keep coming here so Alice Springs can thank him for all the trouble we cause.
00:41 Brett Kamisky and navigator Corey Cooper were hot on their heels in second
00:46 and James Cook and Mitch Alcott scored bronze after a gruelling trip to Fink.
00:51 We actually hit a riverbed wall and did about three front flips so luckily it landed on the wheels and we were able to keep going.
00:58 In the bikes Alice Springs legend David Walsh made it into the history books
01:04 scoring his fifth straight King of the Desert crown matching the record set by Randall Gregory.
01:10 It's the coolest thing you can do with your clothes on honestly, it's fast, the adrenaline's pumping and yeah it's insane.
01:15 Tearing into second place on the bikes was young gun Callum Norton followed by Corey McMahon in third
01:24 with Maddie Healy crowned Queen of the Desert.
01:27 Just my first ever Fink Desert Race to come here and just finish it and let alone win it, I'm stoked.
01:34 The dust is now settling on another year.
01:37 Competitors are already looking forward to 2025 when the Fink Desert Race roars back into the red centre.
01:44 [BLANK_AUDIO]