Dakar 2016: Plan B, fast, very fast!

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What class is your favorite?

  • Car

    Votes: 40 70.2%
  • Truck

    Votes: 17 29.8%
  • Bike

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Quad

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    57
I love Carlos Sainz. One of my personal favorite drivers in any discipline of motorsport. I especially liked him in the World Rally Championship. That two-wheel action, though... that's sick! Dude got skills. Too bad he's out of the 2016 Dakar Rally, as I found out watching the Stage 10 highlights.
 
So, the Mini X-Raid team launched a protest against Peterhansel saying that he refuelled his car in a non-timed section which is illegal. Peterhansel was not given a penalty and cleared of any wrongdoing. X-Raid are now appealing the decision.
Apparently this will take months to resolve. Peterhansel is left as a provisional winner until then.
 
NBC showed a picture of the support vehicle in the ditch during the highlights show and said that the co-driver was at the wheel of 312.
 
Some of the aftermath.



Things like these are the reason many people hate the rally here. The desert stages are in the north-west of the country, but the race travels from the east through some of the most important argentine cities and highways to get there. And thats where accidents happen, with tired and hurried drivers that don't respect any trafic law behind the wheel of raid trucks. I love the competiton, I go to see it every year, but making it "start" and "finish" in the two most populated cities of the country, where the vehicles have to go trough traffic and public is just plain stupid. One of the fatal accidents this year was because a support truck rear ended a car in a highway. Something similar happened two years ago when a truck hit a taxi while crossing a city, causing two deaths.



 
I just can't understand that sportsmen at this level behave complete stupid and irresponsible like those two on the video above. They should be banned for next year and being removed from their license as well. What an idiots! :ouch:
 
Thought I'd bump this topic for this...

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The 2016 Moscow-Beijing SILKWAY Rally is in progress.

The usual Dakar suspects are taking part, Peterhansel is currently leading the car class with the Pug 2008DKR, Loeb is in 3rd. Fastest MINI is in 2nd with Vasilyev.

More:
http://www.silkwayrally.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Silkwayrally/

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So far in the car class:

Peugeot 2008DKR in 1st and 2nd (Loeb 8mins behind Despres)
MINI 3rd, 4th and 5th (the fastest being 9:50 mins off the lead)


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