The unlikely connection between Thai racing boats and Australian four-wheel drives

The unlikely connection between Thai racing boats and Australian four-wheel drives

These wild, Thai racing boats owe their high performance to one of Australia’s favourite off-roaders – the Isuzu D-Max. It’s one of the wildest and most dangerous forms of motorsport on the planet: Lightweight timber boats, sometimes impossibly small, mounted with all manner of oversized, second-hand engines. Sometimes, the watercraft isn’t much bigger than a surfboard. Ripping down the middle of a wide and flat Thai river, bordered by reeds an…