Adventure
What It’s Like Driving a $2 Million Mercedes in a Rally Race
I’ve written about cars for 14 years, but I only just raced in my first rally, Austria’s Silvretta Classic. I guess I was waiting for the right person to do it with.
If you want to know what your relationship is made of, brave a car rally with your significant other.
Rallies, loosely, are multiday competitions made up of 10-, 12-, or 14-hour drives set according to a spiral-bound notebook and multiple km counters, timers, and stopwatches like the kind your dad’s track coach used. They can stretch up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), and some cross multiple continents. And, as is often the case with international travel, they tend to bring to the surface what’s already lying underneath. For better or worse.