Toby Price never knows when to give up - and the Australian motorcycle great perhaps saved his very best to last as he scrapped to seal a top-five finish at the Dakar Rally.
Two-time winner Price ended up finishing second on his Red Bull KTM in the 12th and final stage on Friday, which pushed him up one place from sixth to fifth in the final overall standings.
By his own sky-high standards, having achieved six previous podium finishes in the world's most demanding rally, it may not have been the result the 36-year-old Hillston rider was after at the end of two brutal weeks in the Saudi Arabian desert.
