2010 Dakar -Good News!

[cooneyr]

The Dakar managed to get air time on mainstream NZ TV. Prime News at 5.30 has a couple of minutes with both the bikes and the cars mentioned.

Cheers R

[Woodman]

The Dakar managed to get air time on mainstream NZ TV. Prime News at 5.30 has a couple of minutes with both the bikes and the cars mentioned.

Cheers R

Well theres bugger all 'proper" sports at the moment.

[Brian d marge]

Wow

Day five

Wow

Stunned Mullet here

Stephen

[cooneyr]

Well theres bugger all 'proper" sports at the moment.

Yep. Was interesting watching one of the SBS videos - the Dakar is the largest motorsport even in the world though no mention of why. Guessing it is the largest number of people involved and the distance involved. There is 2500 people in the "entourage" that chase the 374 participants each day.

Cheers R

[NordieBoy]

Luca Manca is down and in an induced coma for head injuries.
He gave Marc Coma his rear wheel yesterday and they're not even on the same team.

[Padmei]

Luca Manca is down and in an induced coma for head injuries.
He gave Marc Coma his rear wheel yesterday and they're not even on the same team.

OH F**k! I really admired him doing that and now this??!! Def not Karma.

I can't get over the way this race costs a team hundreds of thousands of bucks to get to the start & half the field don't make the first 5 days. I guess you realy have to ahve a great deal of luck as well as incredible amounts of talent.

I was bummed Safariburg has pulled out. I really loved his bike & Mardi gras shirts. I'll go exploring & find out his story.

[NordieBoy]

Stage 6 BIKE VIDS are up.

[Brian d marge]

absolutely speechless

its just all up in the air at the moment

Stephen

[Brian d marge]

I hope Fella gets better , just watching the highlights

that was a big crash

Stephen

[Padmei]

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showp...&postcount=402

The above is a report from Rallye Radio which gives an excellent account of what it's really like in the Dakar for clubman level riders. Really honest stuff. Makes me respect the competitors even more.

[Woodman]

This dakar thing is bloody brilliant. never followed it before and now I'm hooked.

Just can't believe how fast those guys go, especially that stage 7 dried up sea bed part fantastic.

Poor old Comas out by the looks of it, unless he drinks about 3 gallons of redbull to make up his 6 hour penalty.

[NordieBoy]

I want a Jingcheng
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There's 2 still racing after 4 stages.

But unfortunately they're WR450's with a Dutch full rallye kit and were built in EU.

[Waihou Thumper]

Well, Marc Coma, did he or didn't he? I am of the thinking that he did change that rear tyre. The tread looked a lot different even if they were different makes of tyre. Marc's tyre still had little flakes of rubber in between the tread, indicating very newish tyre. Hmm..
When you saw the pair of them riding, Despre and Coma, Marc certainly wasn't taking it easy like he quoted. It is a pity, because he is a good enough rider, now he is saying he might pull the pin as he isn't mentally in the race anymore...
Geez, if the guy cheated then fess up mate!
My highlight of the race so far is the German rider Tina Meier who broke down, then borrowed a Gaucho's horse, rode it back to park ferme'. She picked up the spares, rode the horse back, fixed the bike, and continued the stage....Wicked!
I have some photos of her putting the bike into the compund, the day before the start of the race last year. She looks quite hot! The bike is nice too....(Photographs are courtesy of Motosport Magazine....)

[NordieBoy]

But the tyre had only done 160km.
He got 2nd? on todays stage.

Despres broke his rear rim and had to swap with a teammate.

Technically Tina should then receive a penalty up to 6hrs for "receiving outside assistance"

Hell just getting a bottle of water from a spectator is outside assistance.

Back in the day Peterhansel used a hammer at a checkpoint to straighten a foot peg and was protested against for it.

Last year all the top guys changed their mufflers to race cores once through scrutineering and the associated sound checks.
People complained but it was ignored.

The rules seem to be implemented very inconsistently.

[Waihou Thumper]

I haven't seen Stage 8 but thanks...
I guess the outside assistance rule is debateable. The bottles of water, the filling of the radiators with Evian etc from spectators seems to be acceptable. Yes, I remember Peterhansel and the hammer episode.
Tina showed some resourcefulness riding the horse, maybe it was just grazing there and she hopped on it...
Outside assistance may be relaxed for what the camera catches unless Europsort helicopter happens to sort of point the way for some wayward competitor stuck down the bottom of a dune..
I think you can rack up many penalties but can still finish the race? I see some of the results have the scratch time, the overall time and the penalties....ala Coma with 6hrs 22mins...
I wouldn't care with penalties, just get it done and finish the race would be an achievement in itself. For the Priveateers anyway...