We, for the most part, can rely on Fernando Alonso to keep us entertained. And he has been doing so for tangible reasons just lately, during the usually-slow January news days, by having a go at the Dakar Rally. Alonso as is readily noted is rather a modern-day outlier in that, in a throwback, he’s one willing to take to the wheel in pretty much any motorsport discipline. Something to be thankful for. Yet he’s not alone in making the Formula 1-to-rallying journey. Kimi Raikkonen competed in the World Rally Championship’s top class for two seasons during his F1 hiatus in 2010 and ’11, while Robert Kubica is another who has long been a fan of taking to the stages. We...
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