It's a race to the bottom of Lousã hill with two very different modes of transport.
![Rally Driver Dani Sordo and Downhill Cyclist Andreu Lacondeguy](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJPx-xVSulpKkDpDlTfRuoAJciRAqMKP8rEtmrGEGFAisQJAJxY75ND5b9DfgRHdfao3mniVDhx_13fP2GZmjHeI0Z7GoDV4htMuapFAuXBvZ0BrKQm3LZy_OkZFIZu2vnBUz8ERLbIU/w640-h426/AP-1X5KG4YAD1W11_news.jpg)
Is it quicker to travel by four wheels or two?
Common sense suggests it would be no contest between the 300-plus bhp Hyundai Motorsport rally car and a downhill mountain bike.
But a duel between Dani Sordo in his World Rally Championship car and Spanish freerider Andreu Lacondeguy proved it was anything but.
Here is all you need to know:
- Their courses overlapped, car jumping over cyclist and vice versa as the fast-travelling pair cut through a stunning green vista meandering through windmills dotting the landscape.
- Lousã once had a place on the WRC calendar back in the 1980s and 1990s while this particular bike track is a favourite of the Atherton siblings, Dan, Gee and Rachel, as well as Lacondeguy himself.
![WRCar Jump Over Mountain Bike](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixNnjp0HtQ__mFc7Bs_oAklngu-LkUPpaXz0fFlfVd96NvQJxqIB4GwMLqFjAdO01oENtyhXoufxKKYkRYJmR1g-ADnkmZFZtJpv3WIyXgmR3HiQuwZITIuRJ-2tYUTTllcfindQ-eRGI/w640-h426/AP-1X5KG1EF11W11_news.jpg)
- Of the head to head, Lacondeguy said: “Dani was just insane in the car. The first shot we did he had to turn on this gnarly corner, all gravelly, and I couldn’t believe it. The guy just nailed the turn."
![Dani Sordo WRC In Front of windmill with dust everywhere](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtCXxHMaVxA6TdRbC-R7ppe4dD76SN-e1c-9_8eg77lTcc9nCf0RwlsM1LtSk_jA0yF8xKMLhZPhcISrb5pxWjUhluAs3v9cJ5lPmkGfXYpFmHoNPvH3CQQTbup0wgOo4YPoJ69Nlud8/w640-h426/AP-1X5KG4WPD1W11_news.jpg)
- As for Sordo’s take, he said: “He is incredible what he does, I think we can see both sides with the WRC car and him going downhill really fast. I am impressed with him, what he is doing is unbelievable. It is always nice to see him doing jumps and crazy downhills.”
- And as for the winner? Sordo, but barely.
Photo's: Red Bull Content Pool
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