Jan 12th, 2012 Dakar Rally Stage 11 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 11 of the 2012 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 4th in stage 10 & is now down over 19 minutes in the overall standings. Cars begin stage 11 at 7:44am/et (9:44am local). Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2012 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.

STAGE 11 TRACKING

STAGE 11: Arica > Arequipa

Connection 120km | Special Stage 478km | Total 598km

COURSE OVERVIEW

For the Dakar's first day in their country, Peruvians will be entitled to two special stages and additional kilometres for the motorcyclists. After a day spent switching between off-piste sections and areas interspersed with rivers, they will benefit from a moment of camaraderie?: a specific bivouac will be set up for them before they continue exploring Peru. The concept, which had not been tried out again since the camp of Foum Zguid in Morocco during the 2007 Dakar, will also create a major obstacle which will affect the management of the race. The assistance vehicles will not be authorized in the maintenance area, where only the motorcyclists and quad riders will be able to help each other.

STAGE BY STAGE RESULTS

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 12, 2012 at 10:42am

My bad.
9 min

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Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on January 12, 2012 at 10:41am

What happened? Down more than 6 minutes as of WP4. That's more than 8 minutes lost.

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Permalink Reply by Miffles on January 12, 2012 at 11:12am

Peterhensel 'rocked' him again. Two flat tires

From the comments
I hit a rock with both right-side tyres and as you can see this wheel is way out, so we've got some broken parts. Do I think I can win again? Of course. I was passing him [Peterhansel], he didn't move over and I clobbered a rock and got two flat tyres at the same time. So, we've got our work cut out for us. We've got a damaged race car that we're going to have work on and there's a lot of damage from what I can see. Now we'll push, push, push even harder.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 12, 2012 at 11:15am

I highly doubt the exact same thing and comment happened again but I may be wrong.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 12, 2012 at 11:17am

That was yesterdays comments.

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Permalink Reply by Miffles on January 12, 2012 at 11:20am

OOOPS!!!! Sorry .... must not have moved to the next day. My deepest apologies

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Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on January 12, 2012 at 11:34am

This happend AGAIN today?!

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Permalink Reply by Bobby Peebles on January 12, 2012 at 11:21am

more than likely another navigation error

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 12, 2012 at 11:14am

top 5 at KM195 : 1)Peterhansel 2)Roma +1m59s 3)Dos Santos +5m15s 4)GORDON +6m2s 5)DeVilliers +7m14s . Next scoring update at KM300

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 12, 2012 at 11:22am

How long time wise is the link?

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 12, 2012 at 11:43am

Cool.

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Permalink Reply by Drone637 on January 12, 2012 at 11:50am

I just realized you can put a check box next to a number on the Live Tracker and it shows you which way points the car has checked in at. When did that button get there?