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.
Two months after horrific crash, CS Santosh is (literally) up and running
File photo: CS Santosh in action in the Dakar rally
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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.