Dakar Rally 2013

The Holek's accident look like another HANS related injury...

Van Merksteijn hit this stone with the bottom of his engine at 150 km/h and started rolling after that...

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They arrived at the hotel only about 2 hours ago! 17 hours after the crash, but are both ok.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

If Mini appealed they have to reconsider the decision. They can't say to Mini to f.u.ck. off...

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No, but it means they didn't well consider everything before removing the time lost. If the make their decision properly, they should think about everything, so there is no reason to change their minds again...

Gordon rolled today at 29 km into the stage.

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Originally Posted by dupanton

No, but it means they didn't well consider everything before removing the time lost. If the make their decision properly, they should think about everything, so there is no reason to change their minds again...

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How do You know? There are standard procedures and rights to appeal. Are You sure that something was done wrong? It's normal that against a steward decision there exist a right to appeal for other competitors. If there is no decision, there is naturally no appeal and vice versa. That means only in case of some decision taken there may be later an appeal claimed.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

How do You know? There are standard procedures and rights to appeal. Are You sure that something was done wrong? It's normal that against a steward decision there exist a right to appeal for other competitors. If there is no decision, there is naturally no appeal and vice versa. That means only in case of some decision taken there may be later an appeal claimed.

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Mini must have had a good reason not to accept the decision made by the stewards. Without a good reason, they wont give in! So they must have missed something, what gave Mini a reason to complain.

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Originally Posted by dupanton

Mini must have had a good reason not to accept the decision made by the stewards. Without a good reason, they wont give in! So they must have missed something, what gave Mini a reason to complain.

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You missed the point. That is completely irrelevant. Every team has a right to appeal and therefore delayed or later changed steward decisions may happen. It doesn't necessarily mean that there is a mess in the organization.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

You missed the point. That is completely irrelevant. Every team has a right to appeal and therefore delayed or later changed steward decisions may happen. It doesn't necessarily mean that there is a mess in the organization.

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I know they have the right. That wasn't my point neither :p If the organization do a proper job, than there will be no need to change anything in my opinion.
A question, normally a classification is official after a certain time, then there can't be changed a thing about it. Shouldn't it be better that the classification in official before they start the next leg? I guess it is like that in rally to, no?

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Originally Posted by MartijnS

Gordon rolled today at 29 km into the stage.

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He rolled the sandcrawler? That one I got to see... :D Looking at the stage profile, Km 29 is on sand... I bet he went "yee-ha!" over a dune. :crazy:

Hope they are ok though... :)

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Hołek after crash, like always with smile on his face ;)