The guardians are Red Bull’s Desert Wings bike riders, using Honda and KTM motorbikes instead of horses. And the ‘bull’ – which just like the real thing, manages to make a spectacular break for freedom – is Peugeot’s 2008 DKR buggy. Of course it wouldn’t be a film about the Dakar without a massive Kamaz Master Team truck getting involved as well.

Red Bull Straight Rhythm is an innovative evolution of Supercross where a track is unwound - no turns, just a half-mile-long straight rhythm section. The innovative format will pit a field of 32 riders in a head-to-head, bracket format.

Tony Cairoli, 8 times MX World Champion,training in Riola Sardo before the start of the season with an advanced sensor tracking his performances.

With five stops around the globe, history making FMX action and all the riders battling hard for the title, it was Aussie Josh Sheehan that kept his cool in the final event in Sth Africa and was named X Fighters champion for 2014.

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When the first ever Red Bull X Fighters World Tour final on African soil went down, Australia’s Josh Sheehan would not be denied. The 28 year old dominated the competition to earn his first championship in the world’s most prestigious freestyle motocross series.

Three was a charm for Jonny Walker as the KTM rider took his first Red Bull Romaniacs win at his third time of trying. Walker resisted pressure from 2013 winner Graham Jarvis to deny the defending champion his fifth win in Romania.