road by a truck swerving onto their side. The driver suffered life-threatening injuries and was evacuated to Europe, later dying. 2020 Participant count for the 2020 broke all previous records. Seven hundred and thirty participants from 80 different countries entered the longest and most ambitious edition of the rally. The 2020 line-up included a Hungarian priest and 68-year-old Hungarian operetta diva Oszvald Marika. Inspired by a 1984 Dakar route, the rally's founder Andrew G. Szabo decided to take the rally to another West African destination, Sierra Leone. The deteriorating political and security situation in Bamako still did not permit a return to the Malian capital. For the first time in the rally's history, teams had to drive across Guinea as well. The Guinean authorities welcomed the rally with open arms, but amid political chaos and anti government protests in Labé they made organizers change the route of the rally. The rally had to pass through the town of Gaoual. The Gaoual-Kindia stage became so demanding that only 20% of the teams could complete this section. On February 16, 2020 the rally came to a roaring finish in Freetown's national stadium. Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio welcomed teams. Thirty-one teams did not make it to the finish line. The race was won by the Hungarian Körös Autó team. Two Estonian teams came in second and third. 2022 The 2022 rally was the longest, hottest and wettest rally in the history of the event. The start had to be postponed twice because of COVID-19_pandemic related closure of Morocco. The 2022 Budapest-Bamako started on October 21, 2022 at Budapörs Airport in Budapest, Hungary. Despite the record number of entries, 547 people, 247 teams from 75 countries joined the rally. Unlike any other previous Budapest-Bamako the rally was 19 days long and 9432 kms long. Unlike in previous years the drivers had to cross the Sahara in October where daytime temperatures sometimes reached 50 degrees Celsius. The oldest pariticpant was 70 year old Polish driver, Julian Obricki who returned to Africa for the first time since his 1988 Dakar participation. The rally travelled through Guinea for the second time and finished in Sierra Leone. Julius Maada Bio and members of the Sierra Leone government welcomed the finishers in Freetown on November 8th, 2022. During the finish line ceremony, organizing team member Szabolcs Petery died of a heart attack. The race was won by