Dakar 2014

From stage 11 live feed:

"Nasser Al-Attiyah is still in front in the car special, now with a lead of 4'38" over Stéphane Peterhansel. The third placed driver Nani Roma had moved in front of the Frenchman but has now dropped back to third place, 6'11” behind the Qatari. In light of the fact that there was talk of race instructions demanding the drivers to hold their positions this morning from Mini, the losses and gains of the various competitors are difficult to decipher…".

Team orders at X-raid?

P.S. I think ASO's decision to hold the second week of the rally during RMC is not right.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Sotnikov looses over 1 hour. Loprais on way point 5 would be 3 minutes behind Roma on 5th position among cars. Trucks in the dunes are fast :)

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Today Karginov would be sixth in the car category. Not bad either :)

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Originally Posted by SlowSon

So, in cars the expected "switch" is about to happen. The only remaining intrigue is who will grab the third place on the podium - Villiers, Attiyah, Terranova?

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still big drama :bounce:

http://cs310119.vk.me/v310119039/6a05/91r6pq_ulq8.jpg

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Originally Posted by SlowSon

still big drama :bounce:

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Well, not necessarily for the first three places. Quote of Peterhansel after the end of today's stage: "The game is over. We've had a good laugh and enjoyed ourselves. Yesterday evening, the team asked us to not take any more risks. It's a bit frustrating because we've done most of the hard work. But, if Mini wants to have three cars on the podium, at the speed at which we are driving out in front, it's easy to crash a car or even two in just one day. We know that this can happen, but I didn't think that they would do it."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeIHvPXCQAAyLaP.jpg:large

flying kamaz! :eek:

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Originally Posted by kober

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Originally Posted by SlowSon

still big drama :bounce:

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Well, not necessarily for the first three places. Quote of Peterhansel after the end of today's stage: "The game is over. We've had a good laugh and enjoyed ourselves. Yesterday evening, the team asked us to not take any more risks. It's a bit frustrating because we've done most of the hard work. But, if Mini wants to have three cars on the podium, at the speed at which we are driving out in front, it's easy to crash a car or even two in just one day. We know that this can happen, but I didn't think that they would do it."

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yes I just watched the day's review on my local tv. shame if it is true. maybe the french is playing some games, we will see

p.s. waiting to see De Rooy's responce now, he's been too cautious remembering last year but he can't wait for mistakes anymore

So unless a mistake or major time loss by Roma, he's the winner... It could have been such an exciting end :\

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014 ... ly/100662/

Yesterday :
Bikes :
1 Despres (Yamaha)
2 Pain (Yamaha) 2'37
3 Viladoms (KTM) 3'02
4 Barreda (Honda) 5'21
5 Rodrigues (Honda) 6'32
6 Pedrero (Sherco) 6'59
7 Svitko (KTM) 10'34
8 Przygonski (KTM) 11'49
9 Jakes (KTM) 11'56
10 Coma (KTM) 12'09
11 Metge (Yamaha) 14'11
12 Gouet (Honda) 15'50
13 van Niekerk (KTM) 20'38
14 Casteu (KTM) 23'11
15 Ceci (Speedbrain) 29'03
./..

Quads :
1 Casale (Yamaha)
2 Gallegos (Honda) 5'12
3 Abu-Issa (Honda) 16'09
4 Sonik (Yamaha) 19'27
5 Karyakin (Yamaha) 27'42
6 Husseini (Honda) 1h06'06
retirement for Lafuente ! Well, Casale now has race won.

Cars :
1 Terranova (Mini)
2 Roma (Mini) 10'57
3 de Villiers (Toyota) 12'38
4 Peterhansel (Mini) 14'14
5 Al Attiyah (Mini) 20'57
6 Chabot (SMG) 30'18
7 Villagra (Mini) 33'55
8 Alvarez (Ford) 35'38
9 Holowczyc (Mini) 38'17
10 Vasyliev (Mini) 39'06
11 Garafulic (Mini) 44'05
12 Lavieille (Haval) 47'34
13 Kaczmarski (Mini) 54'49
14 Dabrowski (Toyota) 58'34
15 Sireyjol (SMG) 59'16
16 ten Brinke (HRX) 1h18'22
17 Lachaume (MD) 1h19'05
18 Spataro (Renault) 1h23'02
19 Schott (Mini) 1h34'45
20 Patissier (Buggy) 1h46'42
21 Zhou (Mini) 1h47'40
...
30 Poulter (Toyota) 2h28'00
...
46 Malysz (Toyota) 4h30'38
...
49 van Loon (HRX) 4h49'56
50 Rundle (Toyota) 5h20'50
51 Rakhimbayev (Toyota) 5h46'08

Trucks : Karginov new leader * :bounce: *
1 Karginov (Kamaz)
2 Nikolaev (Kamaz) 14'18
3 de Rooy (Iveco) 15'51
4 Loprais (tatra) 22'36
5 Shibalov (Kamaz) 28'35
6 Sotnikov (Kamaz) 30'56
7 Viazovich (Maz) 49'05
8 Stacey (Iveco) 51'11
9 van Vliet (Man) 1h09'12
10 Kuipers (Man) 1h12'25
11 Vila (Iveco) 1h19'11
12 Vasilevski (Maz) 1h32'04
13 Sugawara (Hino) 1h35'11
14 Ardavichus (Tatra) 1h44'13
15 van Ginkel (Ginaf) 1h45'54
...