Peugeot switched its focus to the Paris-Dakar rally raid, an unfeasibly tough event into the Sahara and beyond. That man Vatanen again proved he had a surfeit of the right stuff, winning the Dakar in the 205 T16 in January 1987. His car, no. 205, suffered serious damage before it had even left the outskirts of Paris, but he somehow battled back from 274th place to win, 13,000km and a fortnight later. In fact, Peugeot won four times back-to-back between 1987 and 1990, racking up 48,125 gruelling kilometres in the process.

What better testimony to one of motorsport’s true greats?