Jan 13th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 8 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 8 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon had a broken studs in stage 7, and had to limp home to a disappointing 56th place finish. Gordon is now 24th overall. The rally now enters Chile, and Robby Gordon will begin stage 8 at 10:45am/et.

2014 Stage 7 Photos

STAGE 8 TRACKING

STAGE 8: SALTA > CALAMA

Connection 510km | Special Stage 302km | Total 812km

COURSE OVERVIEW

Today the competitors will cross the Andes Cordillera, to begin the Chilean part of the rally. A special transition stage has been marked out there for the last day that cars will progress without overtaking motorcycles and quad bikes. The timed section of the day will be accessible to skilled drivers who are at ease on fast tracks in a closed environment. Drivers are advised to pay attention to their position from the outset to limit the number of overtaking manoeuvres, even though the strict standards regarding the use of the Sentinel system will be carefully monitored at the end of the day.

The GREEN section of the route is the connection , the RED is the Special Section of the stage.

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Permalink Reply by Andre on January 13, 2014 at 1:42pm

LMAO

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Permalink Reply by GLuce on January 13, 2014 at 1:18pm

just for info bj had the 6th fastest split at wp3 to wp4 45 seconds

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 13, 2014 at 1:22pm

2nd fastest split?

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Permalink Reply by GLuce on January 13, 2014 at 1:24pm

01,01,02,42 bj45

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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on January 13, 2014 at 1:25pm

Look like it Mike

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Permalink Reply by GLuce on January 13, 2014 at 1:25pm

http://www.trackingdakar.nl/index.php?section=4&order=section

click on wp#'s and you can get all of them, pretty cool

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Permalink Reply by ROBERT SAVAGE on January 13, 2014 at 1:29pm

THANKS GLuce

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Permalink Reply by blake keithley on January 13, 2014 at 1:21pm

410 the privateer Ram from Holland is still in the race. Once you get out of the cities Holland is full of some good old boys.

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Permalink Reply by blake keithley on January 13, 2014 at 1:26pm

10 minutes to the Panda and 20 minutes to the buggy.

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Permalink Reply by Rob on January 13, 2014 at 1:36pm

One hour time difference from Bolivia to Chile...is that where the hour went? Alarm clock said, 'I've got you babe' one hour late?

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Permalink Reply by Buzzzz on January 13, 2014 at 1:45pm

Robby is really struggling today....I bet he pissed, especially as they worked on the vehicle for the last day and half non stop to make it better.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on January 13, 2014 at 1:56pm

Not really. We'll find out what happened at the concusion of the stage, but apart from the start time issues and lost time to WP1, Robby is tracking top 10 times ever since. I'm really curious to know what happened.