MOTOR Magazine Australia

2 MOLLY T’S DAKAR

BEING A WOMAN in a male-dominated industry, Molly Taylor is used to blazing a trail.

She was the first non-Brit to win the British Ladies Rally Championship in 2009 and the first female to win the Australian Rally Championship in 2016. Now she looks set to go even further to become the first Australian woman to take on the unforgiving Dakar Rally in 2022 with the Can Am Factory South Racing team.

The Dakar Rally is the toughest, most gruelling form of motorsport in the world. Starting in Ha’il, Saudi Arabia, on January 2, 2022’s rally is made up of 13 stages that take place in

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