Dakar and Rally-Raid discussion...

Tom908V12 · 3 Oct 2015, 16:20 (Ref:3579091)

Hi

I looked far away among the threads of this section and didn't found one talking about rally-raid in general(not only Dakar, then)

So I decided to create it

The coming event in Rally-Raid is Rallye Oilybia du Maroc(Morocco)next week

Many Dakar teams will take part to it(X-Raid Minis, Peugeot, Toyota South Africa,...)and among them the newcomer in this activity: Sébastien Loeb, who will drive a Peugeot 2008 DKR

Daniel Elena will navigate him as codriver

It will be usefull as preparation of the 2016 Dakar

Full entrylist and news and pictures will be on http://rallyemaroc.npo.fr/

PS: note that the talented Young biker girl from Spain Laia Sanz has left Honda(she finished 9th in 2015 Dakar with the team)to drive a factory KTM in Morocco and Dakar 2016

**BertMk2** · 3 Oct 2015, 21:37 (Ref:3579308)

Rally raid doesn't get a lot of coverage really outside of the Dakar. There certainly seems to be a lot of interest in the next Dakar though with some big name drivers coming in. I'll keep an eye on that site for some video clips - got to love rally raid slo-mo shots!

peetleouf · 9 Oct 2015, 14:49 (Ref:3580810)

Interesting performance boost for Peugeot but fiability far from perfect.
Not so much time before Dakar.

NaBUru38 · 18 Nov 2015, 11:35 (Ref:3591252)

Mini XRaid has 12 entries in the 2016 Dakar Rally:

Nasser Al Attiyah - Mathieu Baumel
Nani Roma - Alex Haro
Erik van Loon - Wouter Rosegaar
Mikko Hirvonen - Michel Périn
Orlando Terranova - Bernardo Graue
Nazareno López - Sergio Lafuente
Boris Garafulic - Filipe Palmeiro
Adam Malysz - Xavier Panseri
Jakub Przygonski - Andrei Rudnitski
Harry Hunt - Andreas Schulz
Guo Meiling - Min Liao
Stephan Scott - Holm Schmidt

rallycrossnl · 19 Nov 2015, 17:59 (Ref:3591553)

http://www.rtlxl.nl/#!/rtl-gp-dakar-...3-07972dd57339

Broadcast of the RTL7 Dakar PreProloog, the largest one day dakar related event in Europa at the Eurocircuit, Valkenswaar, the Netherlands. In dutch. You'll probably need Hola (set to holland/netherlands) or another anonymizer to watch it.

NaBUru38 · 20 Nov 2015, 15:04 (Ref:3591754)

Is that a rally sprint? Which drivers are attending?

**FIRE** · 20 Nov 2015, 16:13 (Ref:3591770)

Most of the Dutch moto, car and truck drivers take part.

canamman · 2 Jan 2016, 19:58 (Ref:3601650)

2016 Dakar link. Let the madness begin.
http://www.dakar.com/index_DAKus.html

canamman · 3 Jan 2016, 16:11 (Ref:3601832)

Stage 1 cancelled today due to heavy rains which
flooded the course roads to badly.

NaBUru38 · 7 Jan 2016, 13:23 (Ref:3602790)

The Dakar Rally is underway.

Results after stage 4 Jujuy-Jujuy:

Cars

1. Sébastien Loeb (FRA, Peugeot) 09:44'51
2. Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA, Peugeot) + 04'
3. Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT, Mini) + 11'
4. Leeroy Poulter (RSA, Toyota) + 12'
5. Carlos Sainz (ESP, Peugeot) + 13'
6. Giniel de Villiers (RSA, Toyota) + 13'
7. Mikko Hirvonen (FIN, Mini) + 15'
8. Cyril Déspres (FRA, Peugeot) + 16'
9. Bernhard Ten Brinke (NED, Toyota) + 19'
10. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS, Toyota) + 20'
11. Yazeed Al Rahji (SAU, Toyota) + 21'
12. Emiliano Spataro (ARG, Renault) + 25'
13. Erik Van Loon (NED, Mini) + 39'
14. Jakub Przygonski (POL, Mini) + 42'
15. Orlando Terranova (ARG, Mini) + 43'
16. Martin Prokop (CZE, Toyota) + 44'

Bikes

1. Paulo Goncalvez (POR, Honda) 10:17'27
2. Kevin Benavides (ARG, Honda) + 04'
3. Joan Barreda Bort (ESP, Honda) + 05'
4. Stefan Svitko (SVK, KTM) + 08'
5. Ruben Faria (POR, Husqvarna) + 08'
6. Mathias Walkner (AUT, KTM) + 09' -
7. Pablo Quintanilla (CHI, Husqvarna) + 10'
8. Toby Price (AUS, KTM) + 10'
9. Antoine Meo (FRA, KTM) + 13'
10. Alain Duclos (FRA, Sherco) + 14'

Quads

1. Ignacio Casale (CHI, Yamaha) 11:55'41
2. Marcelo Medeiros (BRA, Yamaha) + 11'
3. Alejandro Patronelli (ARG, Yamaha) + 14'
4. Alexis Hernández (PER, Yamaha) + 15'
5. Marcos Patronelli (ARG, Yamaha) + 17'
6. Jeremías González Ferioli (ARG, Yamaha) + 19'
7. Rafal Sonik (POL, Yamaha) + 20'
8. Sergei Karyakin (RUS, Yamaha) + 21'
9. Mohammed Abu-Issa (QAT, Honda) + 21'
10. Enrique Umbert Okumura (PER, Yamaha) + 26'

Trucks

1. Pieter Versluis (NED, Man) 10:20'34
2. Hans Stacey (NED, Man) + 00'15
3. Federico Villagra (ARG, Iveco) + 02'
4. Gerard De Rooy (NED, Iveco) + 04'
5. Airat Marddeev (RUS, Kamaz) + 09'
6. Ton Van Genugten (NEWD, Iveco) + 13'

NaBUru38 · 7 Jan 2016, 13:28 (Ref:3602792)

By the way, a new Argentine president took office a month ago. He's Mauricio Macri, former Boca Junior president. He has reduced export tariffs (the Kirchners had done it), dropped exchange controls and made other hardcore policies.

Now the minister of tourism has claimed that they aim to keep the Dakar Rally.

**BertMk2** · 7 Jan 2016, 14:46 (Ref:3602812)

That Loeb fella isn't bad at this rallying lark is he?

I've not seen too much of the coverage of this but it looks like a decent event this year and the top of those standings has got some quality drivers there hasn't it? I'll have to find some more coverage somewhere.