We turn to motorsports as preparations for the 2020 Dakar Rally have already begun for many drivers. The route in Saudi Arabia will see an African woman competing in the off-road endurance contest for the first time ever with South Africa's Kirsten Landman hoping to re-write history and finish the grueling rally. CGTN's Julie Scheier caught up with the trailblazing biker.

It's considered the 'world's toughest motor race'. Where just finishing is an achievement in itself. The pinnacle of off-road endurance in motorsport, it's where the greatest off-road masters want to be. And it's where South African top female Enduro rider, Kirsten Landman will race.

KIRSTEN LANDMAN SOUTH AFRICAN ENDURO RIDER "My goal is to become the first African women to finish the Dakar Rally, in the last 41 years of Dakar history 106 women have entered Dakar and not one of them has been from Africa being on a motorbike."

Landman, started racing at the age of 8. In 2013 she had a near-death experience leaving her in intensive care.

"I crashed into a tree stump the impact severed my pancreas from my small intestine and resulted in all my organs going septic I was put into an induced coma to recover and onto life support and then after that I woke up and not many of us get second chances in life and I did, I got to live life again."

This experience forged Kirsten into the rider she is today and pushed her to follow her dreams.

KIRSTEN LANDMAN SOUTH AFRICAN ENDURO RIDER "In my career, I have been the first to do a lot of things this will be the cherry on the top my biggest yet, it is the build-up, it is the preparation, it is overcoming the fears, getting to the rally and finishing it. For me this is most probably the biggest race I will do in my career and coming home with that finishers medal will probably be the best day of my life."

Come 2020 Landman will be the first African woman to compete in the Dakar rally.

JULIE SCHEIER DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA "And it will be her ultimate challenge, but she's ready to take on the world's toughest race and prove that nothing is impossible. Julie Scheier, CGTN, from Durban, South Africa."