the paris-dakar rally tested its drivers like no other race, sometimes driving over 20 hours a day over ground like this. >> jean: so, this is the same road the rally, rally dakar, took. >> anthony: jean hazard is a senegalese of lebanese descent who grew up here watching the final stretch of the race. it was a galvanizing event for him. he has since completed the race himself, three times. >> jean: so, when i was young, i came with my parents to see the arrival of the paris-dakar race. >> anthony: yeah. >> jean: that's why i like to, to make races. >> anthony: it's been eight years since specially modified, true off-road vehicles, with powerful engines and cutting edge designs, roared across the desert and through tiny african villages. i, of course, had to try out one