Toby Price Wins 7th Finke Desert Race
Toby Price has won the 2021 Finke Desert Race alongside navigators Mark Dutton and Joe Weining in the car category.
By doing so, Price wrote himself into the history books as the first person to win both the bike and car categories.
The Finke Desert Race is split across two legs, where competitors travel 226 km from Alice Springs to the remote community of Finke on the first leg, and back to Alice Springs on the return leg.
Price and his team were highly favoured coming into the event, after unveiling the first ever built Mitsubishi Triton Trophy Truck at the end of May.
Price, alongside navigator Dutton, proved the hype was real by winning the prologue the day prior to the race, which would progress the pair to pole position for the start of the opening leg.
Price and Dutton made the most of a clear track ahead of them, powering to Finke in a record-breaking time of 1:39:15.6.
After three unsuccessful attempts to finish in the car category in previous years, Price was determined to complete the race for the first time.
Ahead of the second leg, Weining replaced Dutton as navigator in the #487 Trophy Truck. It made no difference, as Price went on to claim the chequered flag and win the Finke Desert Race.
It was Price’s seventh victory of the event, after taking out the bike category a previous six times.
“Pretty stoked to get this title under the belt finally, it’s been a long time coming that’s for sure! The Toby Price Motorsport crew have been massive throughout this whole campaign, the work that has been done prior and during the event is the reason we claimed the victory. Now that we’ve got this title out of the way, we might come back and do the double!” said Price.
