🔥 One of the wildest sights in Dakar history is Jan de Rooy’s massive DAF TurboTwin X1 running down Ari Vatanen’s Peugeot 405 T16 at more than 200 km/h across the desert. ⠀ The 1988 DAF used two 11.6-liter diesel engines with three turbochargers each, producing roughly 1,200 horsepower in total. ⠀ Despite weighing around 11 tons, it was capable of extraordinary straight-line speed and could genuinely run with the fastest cars in the rally. ⠀ The famous footage of De Rooy overtaking Vatanen became the defining image of just how extreme the unrestricted Dakar truck era had become. ⠀ That same year, the team’s second TurboTwin suffered a catastrophic high-speed crash that killed co-driver Kees van Loevezijn, after which DAF withdrew from the event and soon ended its factory rally program. ⠀ It was an era where engineering ambition was allowed to get dangerously close to insanity. ⠀ Would you rather see machines this extreme return, or was motorsport right to rein them in? ⠀ What are your...