The latest track is a Cross Country, point-to-point, south to north race on the beach, simply called Beach Rally Raid. It features beautiful vistas from Castle Bamburgh, which is overseeing the entire course, to the lighthouse near the finish line, and of course the beach itself to your right. I didn’t advertise this track or its events anywhere, and yet the Extreme Offroad one proved an instant success. So it’s not an experiment, this stuff is tried and true!
Without the sheer amount of miles of desert to replicate the Dakar or Baja 1500, the best we can do in FH4’s Great Britain is challenge your truck, buggy or SUV (or “car” in the case of my obligatory Anything Goes event) through a short but grueling series of dunes, the challenge being both going fast and not flipping your vehicle. From which angle will you attack the next dune? Left, right, middle? And what hazards hide behind it? Those are the questions that any professional offroader faces. I think Cross Country racing is at its best when the landscape is as beautiful as it is dangerous, where beauty meets beast, and only the fastest survive.