Race to Dakar

One of Boorman's lifelong dreams had been to enter the Dakar Rally, which he had discussed with the publishers of the Long Way Round book. Boorman felt he had to do the rally and pitched the idea to Russ Malkin, one of the producers of Long Way Round, who liked the idea. Malkin was concerned that Charley may not finish the rally should he enter alone, so Boorman approached Simon Pavey to see if he was interested in making the documentary and also training him... (Wikipedia.org)