Indian motorcycle icon CS Santosh on his fight after a horror crash at the Dakar Rally, and the CES in Las Vegas with a view into the future of mobility, from Togg to Vinfast to Hyundai and Volvo
With three Dakar finishes under his belt, CS Santosh is one of India’s most accomplished motorsport athletes. At the 2021 Dakar, he suffered a horrific crash, which left him with physical injuries, memory loss and more. Here he talks to us about his battle with depression, and his fight to someday get back on his motorcycle in order to go racing in the dunes again.
Aishwarya Pissay, a champion motorcyclist, describes what it takes to ace the circuit
Kavita MajumdarApr 18, 2021, 14:24 IST
Aishwarya Pissay TVS Racing
Aishwarya Pissay has won 9 championships both nationally and internationally in a sport with very few men, let alone women, participating from India.
The latest feather in her cap was cinched when she came third at the Dubai International Baja, which was the first round of the FIM
Baja Rally World Cup under the women s category in February 2021.
The brutal beginning of her rewarding career involved three major injuries and a couple of hundred minor ones. Fearless Aishwarya Pissay navigates through life on a motorcycle through the harshest of terrains, at the fastest possible speeds, and has brought India much recognition though few would know it.
Two months after horrific crash, CS Santosh is (literally) up and running
File photo: CS Santosh in action in the Dakar rally
cssantosh.com
CS Santosh can now walk and run - gross motor skills that he had nearly lost two months ago. In January, the Indian rider met with a brutal crash in Stage 4 of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia - he was thrown off his bike, briefly lost his pulse, was resuscitated by two riders, chopper-flown to a medical facility within 15 minutes, and spent close to ten days in induced coma. The 37-year old has little memory of any of this.