Australia’s first response to Thierry Sabine’s fledging Paris-Dakar Rallye was the Wynn’s Safari. Graeme Sedgwick was there, and recently uncovered a trove of memories from that amazing era.
I was dusty, damned hot and fraying at the edges when I handed my road card to officials on day four of the Wynn’s Safari in 1985. That was when David ‘Beak’ Murray and I first caught sight of each other. He was on an XT600 Ténéré that looked like an outback Mungo Jerry, battered red and grey on both sides with blow-dried mud gluing it together.