Dakar 2022

[EstWRC]

it seems Loeb has also second puncture? has lost another 7 minutes and is 15 minutes down from leader Lategan at this moment and 12 minutes from Nasser

[MartijnS]

De Villiers apparently hit another bike on the 2nd stage. Driver fine, bike damaged so much that his Dakar is over.

[dimviii]

Dakar leader Al-Attiyah handed suspended DSQ

Toyota was fined €5000 for a breach as its data logger wasn't connected

https://dirtfish.com/off-road/dakar/...suspended-dsq/

[dimviii]

what a photo

[dimviii]

it seems Loeb has also second puncture? has lost another 7 minutes and is 15 minutes down from leader Lategan at this moment and 12 minutes from Nasser

12:15 Car: Loeb already trails by 15’

After two punctures, Sébastien Loeb has already lost more than a quarter of an hour after 126 km. Henk Lategan still leads, seven seconds ahead of Carlos Sainz and a little more than a minute in front of Stéphane Peterhansel.

[EstWRC]

it seems something else happened too, in the end 33 minutes lostt, what a shame

[dupanton]

it seems something else happened too, in the end 33 minutes lostt, what a shame

Transmission problems

[dimviii]

Transmission problems

14:05 Car: Two-wheel drive for Loeb

At the finishing line for the day’s special, Sébastien Loeb arrived more than 33’ behind stage winner Carlos Sainz. The nine times winner of the WRC and his co-pilot Fabian Lurquin broke their longitudinal transmission after 10 minutes of racing. They managed to salvage their day by making it to the finishing line on two-wheel drive!

[focus206]

Feels like reading a Dakar script for Loeb, unfortunately...

[dimviii]

We woke up this morning with the confirmation that Nasser Al-Attiyah received a financial penalty of 5,000 euros (to be paid in less than 48 hours) after verifying that the 'data logger' or the system in charge of collecting data in his Toyota GR DKR Hilux T1 + was not connected during stage two of the 2022 Dakar Rally, disputed in this case and exceptionally between Ha'il-Al Qaisumah after the floods that forced to change the route and suppress the Marathon stage.

In this case, in addition to this sanction for not complying with article 13.1.2 of the FIA ​​Sporting Regulations, a second penalty was also applied pending disqualification of the event, so if a similar event was repeated in what The remainder of Dakar 2022, this would mean the immediate expulsion of the current leader of the general classification in cars.

This last point precisely reveals the importance that ASO and FIA give to the so-called “Black Boxes” that are in charge of collecting many parameters of the car when it is in competition, among other things, of registering the engine revolutions, turbo pressure, some data that is vital when it comes to ensuring that all frames comply with technical regulations, even more important when facing vehicles as different as Toyota's or Prodrive's T1 +, versus the electric Audi RS Q e-tron.

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The defense of Toyota GAZOO Racing is based on the fact that it was a human error, in this case the carelessness of a mechanic who forgot to connect said element for the second stage after, on the first day, or stage 1B, this it will be correctly activated. Toyota alleges that it is a safety procedure, since they disconnect them during the night and probably also when they are preparing to refuel the vehicle at the bivouac.

This has led the FIA ​​to argue its less severe decision because "The exceptional circumstances present in this case, insofar as the Dakar Rally is made up of 12 days of competition and the infraction was discovered in the second, the car being in compliance in the first one. A disqualification from the competition would not be proportionate, especially since the competitor has confirmed that he will solve the problem and the car will be in compliance with the regulations for the next 10 days of competition. "
Lategan's Toyota has irregularities:

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It might seem that, although it was a very condescending decision, none of the rivals would see this possible controversy with too much bad eyes ... until this afternoon. The decision number 13 of the stewards announces that Henk Lategan, another of the official drivers of Toyota GAZOO Racing South Africa has been penalized with 5 minutes in stage 2 after discovering that his Toyota GR DKR Hilux T1 +, a twin unit to the employee by De Villiers or Nasser Al-Attiyah, it was not in compliance with the regulations.

According to the FIA ​​Technical Delegate, the Lategan unit would have exceeded the maximum allowable turbo pressure, with a number of overpressures above the tolerance of 30mBars / s up to six times, exceeding the maximum of five from of which begins to mark the LED system used by Magnetti Marelli in its dataloggers. Jean-Marc Fortin, representative of the team, pointed out that this “small overpressure (below 100mbar is considered like this) was due to when the pilots performed a jump by pressing the accelerator fully ”, which leads to the turbo turbine turning faster and therefore this excess is produced without obtaining any extra performance since the vehicle is with the wheels in the air.

In principle, it is not therefore a serious violation, but added to what happened with Nasser Al-Attiyah, it does not stop fueling the controversy that has been served since in stage 1B, a "not very precise" roadbook at kilometer 257 , 6 according to David Castera turned the race upside down and claimed a good handful of minutes for almost 80% of the registered teams.

https://www.diariomotor.com/competic...er-al-attiyah/