After a near-9000km slog and more than 44 hours of brutal racing over two weeks of unforgiving desert terrain, Toby Price could only gaze forlornly at a timesheet which showed he'd lost the Dakar Rally by the cruellest of margins - just 43 seconds.
It left this teak-tough Australian motorcycle star shrugging in his own understated way: "It hurts a little bit."
