This year, Santosh took his game to new heights. Owing to two top-10 finishes – in Abu Dhabi and Qatar – he became the first Indian to finish the season in top 10 at the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship 2014.
Over the decades, there were numerous cross-country rallies all over the world. In 1999, FIM unified all of these one-off rallies and created a Word Cup which was later christened as World Championship in 2003. The 2014 edition saw six races across six countries where Marc Coma emerged as the eventual winner.