Watch A Dakar-Racing Toyota Hilux’s Axle Get Torn Out Like It’s Nothing
The Dakar rally is always full of amazing jumps, slides and crashes, but the course is so big that many of them aren’t caught that well on camera. Welcome to the exception to that rule.
A Toyota Hilux competitor arrives in this short video, cresting a rocky rise and then following the trail around towards the camera. The driver doesn’t notice a huge rock sticking out on the inside of the turn, however, and clips it. With gusto.
The wheel has nowhere to go and something has to give. Pop – out comes the axle and most of the stuff it’s attached to. Not only that, but the force exchanged between the truck and a large piece of Saudi Arabia forces the Toyota into an almost comically slow flop/roll onto its roof.
And as if the hand of fate is not yet done with the unfortunate Hilux, the video continues to show it almost fall off the road edge during its recovery. We’re pretty sure the team will be glad to see the back of this stage.
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One would think that the Hilux would be more durable than that.
The Top Gear hilux was solid axles, made of sterner stuff “if you want aircon, roll down a window” old school Toyota. The one in the vid is paint bubbling, IFS, dual zone climate control namby-pamby new school Toyota.
I like how the driver tried to stop the Hilux from falling off the cliff as if he could stop 2000+ pounds of weight - But Kudos for the effort! What a mad, amazing race
you can clearly see how he is stoping it from rolling over, its not like he has draged it up a cliff.