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Well its that time of year again. The Dakar Rally is here again, this years event has a record entry. Once again Colin McRae will be there in his Nissan and he will be up againest all the usual suspects. It looks like its going to be a great event again. So I thought I'd better start a Daker thread, so here it is.
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Try the website?
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31 Dec 2004, 11:35 (Ref:1190437) | #5 | ||
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Tyr Clicking on the competitors link on the offical website it worked for me (top right hand side of page
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Volkswagen with their 2/3 drivers will definatly be there, http://www.vw-racing.com has the volkswagen end of things on it i think.
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Well we are underway, the first stage has run today and things look like this:-
Cars: 1. Robby Gordon (US) Volkswagen 4min 20.2sec 2. Hiroshi Masuoka (Jap) Mitsubishi 2.7sec behind 3. Giniel De Villiers (SA) 3.5 4. Bruno Saby (Fra) Volkswagen 5.6 5. Luc Alphand (Fra) Mitsubishi 7.8 6. Jutta Kleinschmidt (Ger) Volkswagen 9.9 Selected others: 7. Ari Vatanen (Fin) Nissan 12 8. Colin McRae (GB) Nissan 13.9 13. Juha Kankkunen (FIN) Volkswagen 23.2 Motorbikes 1. David Fretigne (Fra) Yamaha 4min 11.6sec 2. Cyril Despres (Fra) KTM 8.1sec behind 3. Eric Verhoef (Ned) KTM 13.0 4. Arjan Brouwer (Ned) Yamaha 21.0 5. Kellon Walch (US) KTM 26.7 6. Janis Vinters (Lat) KTM 28.1 |
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wow Robby Gordon- take it home!
the VAG volkswagen assault is huge 16 cars or something like that (www.motorsportvortex.com) and like 60 people |
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1 524 BEKX / WILLEMS / MAESSEN DAF 05' 20" 00' 00" 2 520 KABIROV / BELYAEV / MOKEEV KAMAZ 05' 35" 00' 15" 3 521 DE ROOY (senior) / COLEBUNDERS / SMULDERS DAF 05' 36" 00' 16" 4 525 MARDEEV / KONOPKO / GOLUB KAMAZ 05' 43" 00' 23" 5 516 DE ROOIJ (junior) / COLSOUL / SLAATS DAF 05' 46" 00' 26" |
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Yeah Robby Gordon has done amazing to get were he has.
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One (very short) prologue stage tells us very little
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Other well known names on Dakar:
Ukyo Katayama, Toyota Cor Euser, Honda Massimo Biasion, Iveco Markku Alén, Iveco |
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2 Jan 2005, 02:49 (Ref:1191376) | #15 | ||
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How is Ari doing? I see on the first day he was 7th
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He's not that far behind but there is still a LONG LONG way to go.
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It is interesting that McRae wanted to make sure that he was up front to avoid the dust early on in Africa (30th Dec Autosport). I didn't realise it was that much of an issue. You imagine they get spread out well once the big stages start, but then the dust probably hangs around for a long time.
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This years entrants..
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Everyone is now catching the ferries after completing the short special this morning.
Just for information (if this effects the final results in any way I'll be shocked) David Fretigne won again on the 2WD Yamaha in the bikes; whilst Colin McRae won his first stage of the rally and third overall. Both of the stage winners also lead overall into Africa. Other news - Alfie Cox is on painkillers for inflamed ligaments after his tumble on stage 1. Not the best start to the rally, hopefully it'll clear quickly otherwise he'll be struggling when the longer stages hit... |
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Ari is up to 3rd I see not bad for an old bloke
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Says Peter Brock, on the subject of Robby Gordon's exploits so far:
"“Not too bad for a “beginner”, huh? Robby is just flat incredible in the dirt… you just can’t appreciate this guy’s talent in NASCAR, where the performance of the cars is so limited. But go down to Baja and watch him..It’s just amazing. I think he may surprise a few people in Africa." And Africa just may surprise him. Baja sprinty things (with a cosy service halt every 50km) are one thing, so is a quick squirt around the local beach in Barcelona - two weeks in the desert are something else entirely. |
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Robby Gordon has looked quick in every motorsport discipline he has tried... sadly there isnt a lot of evidence of staying power
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