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Team HUMMER Stage 5 Recap & Quotes
Antofagasta, Chile (January 6, 2010) –Team HUMMER carried the momentum from yesterday’s stage win into today’s performance. Robby Gordon finished fourth, just 4 minutes and 48 seconds behind the winner Mark Miller. Gordon jumps to fourth place overall, only trailing Carlos Sainz by 59 minutes and 55 seconds. As Gordon suspected, most competitors struggled during Stage 5 from Copiapo to Antofagasta, one of the longest stages during the 2010 Dakar Rally. Despite the tough terrain and length of the stage, Gordon proved once again that his Monster Energy / Toyo Tires HUMMER is reliable and fast across the Chilean desert.
“We had an interesting day today. Since we were the first car on the road due to yesterday’s stage win, we made the trail. Unfortunately, we got stuck once in a ditch as we were making our way, costing us about six minutes. Things were going along good and then we had an overheating issue near the end of the special. Stopping to replace the belt cost us about couple of minutes. Had it not been for these errors, I think that we could have won the special by about four minutes. Regardless, we had a good day and are now within the hour mark and have our sights set on Carlos. Unfortunately, we messed up on the third day by missing a check point. It has been a good rally for us and the Monster Energy / Toyo Tires HUMMER. There is still a long way to go both in the Rally and competing for the overall win,” commented Robby Gordon.
The Vanguard HUMMER started today’s special in eight place. Despite a clutch issue in the dunes, the driver finished 12th.
For Stage 6, the teams will head north up the Chilean coast to Iquique from Antofagasta. There will be a 90km liaison with a special featuring 483km and finally another 97km liaison back to the bivouac in Iquique, Chile.
“We had an interesting day today. Since we were the first car on the road due to yesterday’s stage win, we made the trail. Unfortunately, we got stuck once in a ditch as we were making our way, costing us about six minutes. Things were going along good and then we had an overheating issue near the end of the special. Stopping to replace the belt cost us about couple of minutes. Had it not been for these errors, I think that we could have won the special by about four minutes. Regardless, we had a good day and are now within the hour mark and have our sights set on Carlos. Unfortunately, we messed up on the third day by missing a check point. It has been a good rally for us and the Monster Energy / Toyo Tires HUMMER. There is still a long way to go both in the Rally and competing for the overall win,” commented Robby Gordon.
The Vanguard HUMMER started today’s special in eight place. Despite a clutch issue in the dunes, the driver finished 12th.
For Stage 6, the teams will head north up the Chilean coast to Iquique from Antofagasta. There will be a 90km liaison with a special featuring 483km and finally another 97km liaison back to the bivouac in Iquique, Chile.
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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on
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wonder why those belts are coming off, and i hope the Local napa store will have a few extras....JK
Good job team
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Permalink Reply by Team Maranello on
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sweet. Tell Bj to take it eary on the clutch, there is plenty of power in the LS7, just keep the throttle open up the dune
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Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on
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Great to be all the way back up to fourth overall already. But time wise, still a long way behind three extremely talented drivers who are in some pretty awesome equipment with a very determined team. Not out of the realm of possibility that all three could have issues, but it's a lot to ask for....
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on
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You have to wonder if the 3 VWs will ease up a little allowing RG to gain some time and possibly get another couple stage wins? We all know RG won't ease up!!
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VW is always thinking and works hard on team strategy, but I would guess they know it's too early to really start easing up.
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All the talk yesterday on SBS about the VW's finding a driving rythem (sic), I just hope they start getting complacent... but our boy can catch up irregardless I think!!
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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on
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agree on that...and even though there will be team orders..obviously all 3 of the VW drivers wants to win...
so to be able to do so between the 3 of them..they need to be one of the top 2 (VW) drivers before the rest day..as the VW in 3rd I think will become a pace guy behind for support...
so they will be pushin each other and hopefully that leads to errors
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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on
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Team orders aside a mech failure would be more of a realistic happening. Counting on another guys grief is no sporting form..........but i'll take it in this type of sport.
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Yeah, for the next few days you're still more likely to catch them due to error, not because they're slowing down. No team order on follow the leader will come until the final two or three days. Probably two days....
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Permalink Reply by zoomsss on
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I like this report...
Team HUMMER: Dakar Rally Stage 5 report
... As Gordon suspected, most competitors struggled during Stage 5 from Copiapo to Antofagasta, one of the longest stages during the 2010 Dakar Rally. Despite the tough terrain and length of the stage, Gordon proved once again that his Monster Energy / Toyo Tires HUMMER is reliable and fast across the Chilean desert.
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