Jan 9th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 5 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 5 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon recorded a 14th place finish in stage 4, and is now 4h16m behind. The first part of the special section of stage 5 is 211km, followed by a 111km 'neutral zone', then the last section is 246km (527km total).

2014 Stage 4 Photos

STAGE 5 TRACKING

STAGE 5: CHILECITO > TUCUMAN

Connection 384km | Special Stage 527km | Total 911km

COURSE OVERVIEW

After two race days with completely separate routes, everyone will gather together to tackle the longest stage of the rally. They will need to be extremely resistant to overcome these two sections of the special stage which will primarily feature sand. All day long the competitors will make headway on off-piste sections: those who have poorly assessed the limits of their engine will constantly be on the verge of overheating and all the more so, as the region’s temperatures are generally very high. At the bivouac in Tucuman, the candidates for the podium will have been whittled down to a select few, as many of them will no longer be a part of this elite group. For many others, their timing and mechanical mishaps will only become apparent in the middle of the night.

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 ROBERT SAVAGE on January 9, 2014 at 10:27am

Coupe DeVille is invisable

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Permalink Reply by Blain on January 9, 2014 at 10:25am

Robby 2nd @ 00:18:45

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Permalink Reply by Buzzzz on January 9, 2014 at 10:25am

Well gosh darn it all.....That is brilliant.....good job Robby.....just have to see when the dust settles....excuse the pun!

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 9, 2014 at 10:26am

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Permalink Reply by natron008 on January 9, 2014 at 10:26am

WP5:
Pos. N° Name Make Time Variation Penalty
1 304 ROMA (ESP), PÉRIN (FRA) MINI 002:53:43 00:00:00
2 305 GORDON (USA), WALCH (USA) HUMMER 003:12:28 00:18:45 00:00:00
3 328 DABROWSKI (POL), CZACHOR (POL) TOYOTA 003:14:12 00:20:29 00:00:00
4 322 MALYSZ (POL), MARTON (POL) TOYOTA 003:18:47 00:25:04 00:00:00
5 307 TERRANOVA (ARG), FIUZA (PRT) MINI 003:22:35 00:28:52 00:00:00
6 301 AL-ATTIYAH (QAT), CRUZ (ESP) MINI 003:26:22 00:32:39 00:00:00
7 300 PETERHANSEL (FRA), COTTRET (FRA) MINI 003:28:05 00:34:22 00:00:00
8 330 VILLAGRA (ARG), PEREZ COMPANC (ARG) MINI 003:40:34 00:46:51 00:00:00

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Permalink Reply by edgard vargas on January 9, 2014 at 10:26am

While you're up shit right there robby well maintained we continue to scale and so we give a beating to the mini, let the 3rd Provicionalmente

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 9, 2014 at 10:26am

1 304 ROMA (ESP), PÉRIN (FRA) MINI 017:48:36 00:00:00
2 301 AL-ATTIYAH (QAT), CRUZ (ESP) MINI 018:26:05 00:37:29 00:00:00
3 307 TERRANOVA (ARG), FIUZA (PRT) MINI 018:28:30 00:39:54 00:00:00
4 300 PETERHANSEL (FRA), COTTRET (FRA) MINI 018:39:02 00:50:26 00:00:00
5 330 VILLAGRA (ARG), PEREZ COMPANC (ARG) MINI 019:20:33 01:31:57 00:00:00
6 328 DABROWSKI (POL), CZACHOR (POL) TOYOTA 019:25:43 01:37:07 00:00:00
7 322 MALYSZ (POL), MARTON (POL) TOYOTA 020:18:18 02:29:42 00:00:00
8 305 GORDON (USA), WALCH (USA) HUMMER 022:21:38 04:33:02 00:00:00

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 9, 2014 at 10:27am

Peter 50 back overall

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 9, 2014 at 10:27am

Nani Roma has put in a good performance so far today, since on completion of the first half of the special stage, he boasts a lead of 10’33' over second placed driver Giniel de Villiers. However already 32’39' separate him from his nearest team-mate Nasser Al-Attiyah and 34’22' from Stéphane Petehansel. It will be worse still for Carlos Sainz who is about to arrive at the end of the first half.

This was before RG passed WP5