First video of the shakedown of yesterday online :)
English subtitles follow starting from the next video!
Van Merksteijn Motorsport - Dakar 2013 - Shakedown - YouTube
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First video of the shakedown of yesterday online :)
English subtitles follow starting from the next video!
Van Merksteijn Motorsport - Dakar 2013 - Shakedown - YouTube
Today, the stage's times will be multiplied fivefold.
Does this mean that Gordon is already one hour behind the leaders?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kielder
time difference moto's are x5
cars (and trucks i assume) x3
Now Dakar on Eurosport (than Janner Rally)
Did anyone upload footage to youtube?Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
Favorite headline from todays stage is (translated) "Robbie Gordon, He spoke much...was short lived."Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakad
On the Dakar site, he said regarding Nasser's and Carlos buggy, 'My 4 year old son can design a better one'........Quote:
Originally Posted by TyPat107
Robbie you had your chance last year and blew it.... and now for 2013 seems again...
Twitter / Rallymaniacs: Picture of the day | Peter ...
what Gordon can do, Van den Bosch can do better, with a truck
Yes, at the beginning cars and trucks were x5, but it was changed later to x3 :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
What is a purpose of that multiplying? To me it looks like another stupid idea for teenager audience...
i think it was to make it a serieus stage, and stop drivers doing what they did at Rally Australia, driving slow so they do not win the stage and have to open the sunday stage.
Opening the stage in offroad is a completely different thing
Two more of Joost his videos, an impression of the first 3 days.
Van Merksteijn Motorsport - Dakar 2013 - Three days in Lima - YouTube
First stage and the liaison to the start :)
Van Merksteijn Motorsport - Dakar 2013 - Stage 1 - YouTube
Really? He should hire his son to design one for him then, instead of driving a giant brick (even has the same colour)... who designed that thing? A chimp with a square ruler? :p :... seems it wasn't his best work either. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ProRally
RG has designet every nut on his truck himself, about the aerodynamics he got support from GM, they let him use their aerodynamic tunnel.Quote:
Originally Posted by MAXLD
Still no reason to say what he did about a driver who paid him a LOT of $$$ last year, which RG was more then happy to accept...Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
The buggies are always ugly, they just don't have the fine lines of cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by MAXLD
Al Attiyah drove even more crazier then Robbie, he broke the car too many times in the stages, which costed Gordon time when he had to help Al Attiyah. Gordon spoke some nasty worrds about Al Attiyah, they are absolutly no friends (anymore). Gordon did not have much luck wth teammates in the Dakar rally. In 2011 he had a guy from Chile as teammate, who drove past him when Gordon was stopped with technical issues.
Either he chooses the wrong men or no one can match Robby Gordons standerds
I cant figure out what do you mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by ProRally
intersting stage today ... lot of time losing by some guys in auto. Peterhansel, de Villiers, Chabot and Terranova are the only one who didn't lose to many time. Then there is Novitsky (+9), Al Attiyah (+11), Alvarez (+13), Holowczyc (+14), Sainz (+18), Roma (24) Chicherit (+32), and others who are not arrived seems to be far. Vasilyev is doing a nice stage too, a bit surprising with his car ! arf, in live I see him stuck ...
Guys lost times with a difficult WPS to find.
In moto same thing, and good stage for Husqvarna boys (Barreda 1st and Fish 3rd). Some surprising guys in the T10 (Caselli, Curtis, Israel).
General after leg 2 (maybe some penalties will arrive ?)
1 Barreda (Hu)
2 Faria (K) 5'17
3 Casteu (Y) 6'53
4 Pedrero (K) 6'55
5 Despres (K) 8'39
6 Rodrigues (Ho) 9'05
7 Fish (Hu) 9'13
8 Ullevalster (K) 9'14
9 Curtis (K) 9'50
10 Israel (Ho) 9'55
And in truck, Stacey had an accident.
What happend with Nasser and Sainz?
Benediktas Vanagas (458) rolled in front of Joost in the beginning of the stage.
Taking Nasser's budget last year, and now on official Dakar website he says 'my 4 year old son could design better car' referring to the buggy's Nasser and Carlos are using.... if he would be the only one to make a car in the USA .Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
Did Benediktas continue ?Quote:
Originally Posted by MartijnS
Yeah, he continued.
Sainz:Quote:
Originally Posted by eestlane
in: Dakar websiteQuote:
Possibly a GPS problem
We need to have a look at the GPS, there may be something wrong with it. We went through certain points two or three times without them being validated, until we thought "too bad, let's move on" and, after 15 km, it went back to normal... I don't know, we need to have a look at it.
any news for benediktas 458
No, all I know is that he rolled in a righthand corner at quite a high speed, but could continue with some damage to the car.
I think the crash will be shown on Eurosport. His shot was just on Dutch tv allready.
Did Joost film the crash on RTL7?
it looks like time of Sainz was changed and he is new leg winner.
and Nasser is the last in overall ranking after day2. What could happen?
132. AL-ATTIYAH (QAT) CRUZ (ESP) BUGGY 12:02:15 +09:07:00 behind the leader, 1 hour penalty: 01:00:0
Yes, it was proved that the GPS didn't work well. At a way point it didn't validate, so Sainz spent 21'26" trying to activate it passing by the way point at least three times. Then, he decided to move on and after a few kms the GPS suddenly showed the way point validated. Officials checked Sainz's itinerary and decided to discount those minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Yes, that was his shot :)Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Sainz in lead again.
We're rock! » Dakar Rally Think I prefer the wrc timing. Was it 15 kms before the gps 'kicked in' again ? An entire wrc stage length.
An hour is the penalty if you miss a way point :confused: .Quote:
Originally Posted by Fri
If you look at the times then you can see that his overall bad time and 1 hour penalty originates from stage 1. He was second there. So, there must be some kind of mistake
I missed that last parts. yes it reads of only 1 brand new Toyota, for De Villiers