the challenge

A 1,000 km trail through the Tamil Nadu region of India. As if the traffic, pedestrians and suicidal wildlife wasn't enough to contend with we had the maddest competitors from India, Russia, Europe and America to crash in to.

the wheels

The auto-rickshaw (a.k.a "tuk-tuk"). A vehicle with the speed of a damp fart and the handling of a waiter with Parkinson's... aw

the rules

No dying allowed

difficulty rating 

Follow our trip through Southern India in pimped up rickshaws featuring

• 4 blown engines, 1 exploding gearbox
• 1 somersault, several wheelies and a head on crash
• 2,000 bottles of Kingfisher, 300 curries and 8km of toilet roll
• A large elephant and some thieving monkeys

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Or watch it all on curry-cam in our video featuring

• Free lesson on how to escape from under the wheels of a speeding rickshaw
• See how cheap alcohol leads to moments such as "naked belly flopping"
• Watch a rickshaw on two wheels around a hotel foyer
• Find out how team "Curry In a Hurry" lose their windscreen
• And much much more trouser filling action...d

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The India Auto Rickshaw Challenge