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: 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.
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My bad.
9 min
What happened? Down more than 6 minutes as of WP4. That's more than 8 minutes lost.
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.
I highly doubt the exact same thing and comment happened again but I may be wrong.
OOOPS!!!! Sorry .... must not have moved to the next day. My deepest apologies
more than likely another navigation error
top 5 at KM195 : 1)Peterhansel 2)Roma +1m59s 3)Dos Santos +5m15s 4)GORDON +6m2s 5)DeVilliers +7m14s . Next scoring update at KM300
How long time wise is the link?
Cool.
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