Jan 2nd, 2011 Dakar Rally Stage 1 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 1 of the 2011 Dakar Rally.Robby Gordon will drive the #303 Speed Energy Hummer & Eliseo Salazar will drive the #327 Hummer. Raceday chat will also be available throughout the entire 2011 Dakar Rally.Robby Gordon finished 6th in stage 1 of last years rally.

STAGE 1 TRACKING

STAGE 1: Buenos Aires > Cordoba

Connection 566km | Special Stage 222km | Total 788km

COURSE OVERVIEW

Most of the journey will have been made the day before, but the road section to the starting line of the first special stage is still long.Once the competitors have got down to the nitty-gritty, their engines will start to heat up along a very quick portion.They will need to be more and more technically proficient on a route that then becomes mountainous.In order to limit the amount of overtaking on narrow tracks, a special route has been drawn up for bikes and quads in the middle of the stage.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by TOG on December 30, 2010 at 12:06am

Scrutineering & parade precede the start of stage 1

Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on December 30, 2010 at 12:09am

Wow This is awesome. can't believe it's here. Pull those belts tight here we go............

Permalink Reply by goRGgo on December 30, 2010 at 7:01pm

How fast is everyone going on the course prior to any Stage starting line? By this I mean are they chilling and playing follow the leader or having to find their way there as quickly as possible? What about after the Stage is completed? Just chill back to the Bivouac?

Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on December 30, 2010 at 7:19pm

Local speed limits and traffic laws apply (the HUMMER's are equip'd with speed limiter's just for this)

Permalink Reply by pdxracefan on December 30, 2010 at 7:26pm

Memory tells me you are correct. They are penalized with additional time for exceeding posted limits. It's basically the same as WRC.

Permalink Reply by TOG on December 31, 2010 at 12:55am

scrutineering is on Dec 31st....

Permalink Reply by Miguel Miquelarena on December 31, 2010 at 11:10am

Today the Police and the Organization anticipate´s more people than Dakar 2010, more than 3.000.000 millons people, so the trafict to Victoria will be slow until Zarate Brazo Largo Bridge.

Permalink Reply by lin neal on December 31, 2010 at 12:21pm

will we have the normal chat room up everyday like the nascar races?

Permalink Reply by jack on December 31, 2010 at 1:38pm