With his plans to pit the powerful Toyota Hilux GR-S bakkie against two exacting 4x4 tracks in tatters - a family emergency called - Nick Yell "rally drives" the vehicle home from Plett via some 380km of exacting gravel, jeep tracks and rough mountain passes, and it proves a worthy test track substitute.
Although it was a real wrench to have to write off the power-sapping sand tracks of Paradise 4x4 outside Sedgefield and the Gamkaberg Nature Reserve's mountain trails (subsequently closed for maintenance), I, fortunately, have a Plan B "rally route home" - see Travel Advisor below for full details.