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Jan 2nd, 2012 Dakar Rally Stage 2 Race Info & Discussion
Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 2 of the 2012 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 5th during stage 1 & Nasser Al Attiyah came home 38th. Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2012 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.
STAGE 2: De La Pampa > San Rafael
Connection 487km | Special Stage 290km | Total 777km
COURSE OVERVIEW
The competitors will have an early start and a long way to go to join the start of the special stage. But the pace that the drivers will have to keep up on the first very fast part of the route will immediately ensure that they remain extremely focused. After the big, fast bends negotiated on firm ground, the entrance in a backdrop of dunes will significantly slow down their progress. In Nihuil, the grey-coloured sand bears witness to the intense volcanic activity which occurred in the region several thousand years ago.
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Permalink Reply by Team Maranello on
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Game on baby. Take no prisoners. Anyone in mood for MINI waffles this morning. BTW, if anyone wants to know TOG is STIG twin brother and it is once said that they had spark plugs for Pacifiers. Dude, did you get any sleep last night.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Downs on
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Morning all went to levie yesterday and it was'nt dry a little seedy as they say in canada.Glad to read that Nasser's ride is ok Should be a good run today
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Permalink Reply by Hank on
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ok, 300 is all good now...great now they can both haul ass and squish a few mini's
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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on
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Lets hope he can regain it today!!
11:42 : Nasser Al Attiyah: “Not very confident any more”
After a difficult first day, the title holder arrived at the bivouac in Santa Rosa at 11 PM, at the wheel of a Hummer which was probably going do need a good night’s work to be able to take starter’s orders for the 2nd stage in suitable conditions: “2 km from the finishing line on the special stage, we could smell something burning, because the fuel pump flexible had melted. Robby towed us to the finishing line and on the link stage we stopped with Lucas to repair it. We both spent two hours at work, because our assistance truck did not turn up. Afterwards, we had to stop every 100 km to put some more oil in. Now I’m hoping that the mechanics will work well to solve this problem and especially to make sure there aren’t any more mishaps. As for victory, I’m not very confident any more, but I’ll have to keep on believing in my chances. Sometimes, that’s just what rally-raid driving is like
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All we can pray for is that he did not damage internal parts.
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Quick Question.
On the live tracker the start times say 5:00 for Bikes and with a 5 hour differance from there to PST that tells me they should have started at midnight here.
But they pretty much kicked off at 6:00 PSTWhat am I missing?
Last Comment time was 15:09 but I got it at roughly 6:09. So I am pretty confused.
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Permalink Reply by TOG on
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thats the start time of the liason to the start of the timing 'special section'
Bikes were off at 8:30am/et ( 10:30am local ) & Cars start at 10:30am/et ( 12:30pm local )
Main page here at site, top lefthand side under scoring pylon will give you the day to day Team SPEED stage start times for the "special" sections of each stage.
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Thanks again TOG.
Yes I see the start times on the top of the page but The confusing part to me is the different times for the start times and correlation to the comments section.Also you reference 8:30am ET to 10:30 Local.
Are you not PST which would be 11:30 local?
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Permalink Reply by Mike Hicks on
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is this stage favorable to the HUMMERS
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Where is Cody.
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OK Now I see him.
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