Jan 6th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 2 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 2 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon had vapor lock issues during stage 1, and finds himself over 2 hours behind. The cars are scheduled to begin the 433km special section at 8:55am/et, Robby Gordon will probably begin the stage at 9:36am/et (Subject to change) Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2014 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.

2014 Stage 1 Photos

STAGE 2 TRACKING

STAGE 2: SAN LUIS > SAN RAFAEL

Connection 365km | Special Stage 433km | Total 798km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The fastest special stage of the rally, at least for its first part, will also be the one where drivers will have to face the first dunes. And it won’t just be a brief encounter with sand: in the last 100 kilometres, the exploration of the grey dunes of Nihuil will be even more intensive than during previous visits. The sand is more firm there, but the experience will provide a great deal of insight about each of the competitors’ technical skills. In short it will be a veritable test.

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 Todd Shelton on January 6, 2014 at 2:18pm

Typo.. :)

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Permalink Reply by Chupakabras on January 6, 2014 at 2:19pm

Not even BJ has finished yet, or the Hammers team.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 6, 2014 at 2:19pm

The video will be up later this evening.

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Permalink Reply by Adam G on January 6, 2014 at 2:21pm

is this from yesterday ?

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Permalink Reply by Robert Valentine on January 6, 2014 at 2:23pm

Any Video is appreciated. Thanks TOG.

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Permalink Reply by FD REBEL on January 6, 2014 at 2:23pm

save it and play it every half hour to keep our hopes up reminding us YES it does move

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Permalink Reply by Scooter Wright on January 6, 2014 at 2:19pm

he missed some of the course somewhere, it won't hold up in Dakar court.

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Permalink Reply by ROBERT SAVAGE on January 6, 2014 at 2:20pm

5 hrs and I know about as much as I did when I started , no tracking, no chat with our friends, not blaming you TOG , just one of those days

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Permalink Reply by Drone637 on January 6, 2014 at 2:20pm

Haval might be dropped? Apparently there is an issue with the mix and match construction of the Haval vehicles and they are seeing if they will be able to continue racing.

If nothing else they should be able to protest like Gordon did last year.

And they just announced that Gordon needs to be towed out.