Hey everyone! new to the forums and was just wondering if anyone was looking foward to the Dakar next year, looks great like always and wanted to know your opinions about it...
I'm pulling for Robby just to prove it but some how I don't think this will ever be his race. It is funny to see Nassar go from 4wd to 2wd after complaining about the Hummer's.
I have a feeling this will be a better rally for Robby based on more dunes. Peterhansel (or whatever his name is) just seemed to complain alot last year when he would get beat or not be at his best. The whole issue with Robby was BS but didn't want to get best like Robby was doing even helping his teammate who wasn't much of one. I'm curious to see who runs in 2nd Hummer or if it will since no word has been announced.
I'm curious to see how the buggies for Nassar actually hold up considering they aren't nearly as stout as the Hummer nor the R&D either.
I'm not sure what they could change the name too but it would be a little odd.
I hope i get to see much of the dakar this year, the two years past i watched parts of it on versus and it seemed very cool. I want to make sure i can see majority of it on tv and anything on youtube
Just seen that Marc Coma has had to withdraw through injury, this pretty much kills the motorcycle contest before it begins unless Despres runs into trouble.
Don't expect too much in the way of coverage, all that you are likely to get live are split times and text commentary which reports the major events.
A quick google says NBC are showing 30 minute recap shows each night, presumably similar to what Eurosport do, if not http://www.youtube.com/dakar upload very short videos of each day.
Also bear in mind that it's the toughest race in the world so sometimes the TV schedule runs late if it's been a particularly tough stage and half the field are still stuck in the dunes.
I don't think anyone in world unless your actually there has live coverage. It's a hard race to have live coverage on and hopefully can did the days recap.
On side note, I finally bought a Gordon Us vs Them sticker!
I know why they moved the Dakar, but have they thought to mave it back? While I have paid attention to it some, I didn't get to see any proper Paris-Dakar rallies. From what I heard, It was so brutal it made the Baja look like a walk in the park.
dakar.com is reporting Robby Gordon has stopped 4km into the first stage and hasn't moved for over 5 minutes.
Of the actual contenders in the car class the buggies are looking good, the Red Bull's of Sainz and Al-Attiyah are at the top and Chicherit and Chabot's SMG's are close too but it's only a very short 13km stage so the gaps are mostly under a minute.
Cost Gordon around 10 minutes on the road which became half an hour when the times were altered.
He can't win it by taking risks, his car is very fragile as shown by the transmission breaking yesterday when he selected reverse, he needs to play the long game to get back into contention, the Red Bull buggies might fall into trouble before the end given the reports of unreliability in testing and half an hour isn't too much even on the bulletproof Hilux's and Mini's unless he loses an hour or two by crashing which he has proven to do on a regular basis.
C'mon Team X-Raid! Let's get those Mini's to the front!
Cars are now in the stage. Both Sainz and Al-Attiyah have got a couple of minutes over the Mini's.. with Peterhansel being 4th and 2:43 down at this stage (WP2)
Looking at the Dakar live commentary there's a tough section in the middle of the stage which Sainz tried avoiding which cost him some time, Chicherit has lost a lot of time too, since this stage has a lot of dunes in I'd expect Gordon to make some time back in the RWD Hummer but he is losing more to the favourites.
If you go on the overall times for each checkpoint it tells you about 30 more cars have gone through than the other option! I suppose it's better than nothing though.
If you go on the overall times for each checkpoint it tells you about 30 more cars have gone through than the other option! I suppose it's better than nothing though.
