The 1974 Safari Rally results sheet has one entry buried in the middle that outgrew the whole event: car #
1#, co-driver Jean Todt, finished nowhere near the podium in a Peugeot 504. Same Jean Todt who later ran Ferrari F1 and then spent 12 years as president of the FIA, in charge of the entire sport he was just riding shotgun in that day. Meanwhile the car that actually won, a Mitsubishi Lancer 1600 GSR driven by local specialist Joginder Singh, never scored a single point for the rest of the season. One result on the sheet was a nobody who ended up running the show. The other was a champion who peaked exactly once and never showed up again.