Veering off on a tangent, but this once happened: "The 12th round-Australia motoring event run since the first (1953) Redex, the [largely off-road 18,000km, 14

Veering off on a tangent, but this once happened: "The 12th round-Australia motoring event run since the first (1953) Redex, the [largely off-road 18,000km, 14 day] 1979 Repco is now acknowledged as the toughest long-distance rally since the continent-to-continent epics of the first decade of the 20th century. Like earlier round-Australia trials and the London-to-Sydney epics of 1968 and 1977, crews were expected to drive virtually non stop for days at a time with limited rest breaks. Nowadays this would be considered irresponsibly dangerous." http://repcoroundaustralia.blogspot.ca/ http://repcoroundaustralia.blogspot.ca/