Our friends from WESTx1000 are out at the 2019 Silk Way Rally bringing coverage from Day 9 of the event. 
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Day 9, SS8: They?re All Duned
A Not-So Restful Day Precedes a Long (Long) Day in the Sand
Silk Way Rally; Special Stage Eight: Some have been dreading it. Others live for it. SS8, the longest and reportedly most difficult of the event, introduced the dunes. They weren?t the only obstacle of the stage, but the first portion of the 326.6KM special was certainly a white-knuckle welcome back to the racecourse after the only “non-race” day out of ten.

Just off the starting line, there was some traversing through low lying desert speckled with camel grass, the dirt chunky, cracked and tight around the barely visible pathways. As pilots approached the inevitable, the earth dissolved into beach-like sand, soft and deep much like you?d find in Baja California. And then, there were dunes. Humble at first, but challenging nonetheless, where racers encountered sharp cliffs which perimeter sequential shallow valleys. More demanding than intimidating. And don?t dare let off the gas or you?re bound to be buried, if not take a tumble, which is what camas #304 MAZ-DportAuto endured not too far into the stage, but more on that later. The fast section in the middle was multifaceted, offering dry riverbeds, ravines, canyons, another few steppes and was quite a bit quicker to navigate. But then, before vehicles could reach the ASS, dunes were brought b...