Jan 18th, 2013 Dakar Rally Stage 13 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 13 of the 2013 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 2nd in Stage 12 , and is now 16th overall. Gordon will get a great starting spot for stage 13 in an attempt to win his second stage of the rally. The cars are slated to begin the special section of stage 13 at 10:06am/et and Robby Gordon will begin his special section at 10:09am/et. Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2013 Dakar Rally.

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STAGE 13 TRACKING

STAGE 13: COPIAPO > LA SERENA

Connection 294km | Special Stage 441km | Total 735km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The schedule has taken the meteorological characteristics of the area into account. The “Camanchaca” will be very dense during the first part of the morning. So it will only be once this stubborn fog has lifted that the first motorcyclists will set off to tackle the last dunes of the rally. The sandy part, where an attack is still feasible, represents a third of the special stage. To discover the end of the stage, the competitors will have to head south, on wide tracks which can nevertheless conceal stones which can shatter dreams. When they reach La Serena where the rally’s last bivouac will be situated, they will be awarded highly prized additional points.

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Permalink Reply by steve wilson on January 18, 2013 at 4:14pm

22 second win....hell thats almost two laps at Bristol......in control the whole day!!! peace of cake!!

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Permalink Reply by Shane on January 18, 2013 at 4:16pm

Going to probably finish in 14th overall for the rally. Looks like he is going to finish about 10 minutes or so behind 13th today, and that will be tough to make up on tomorrows stage.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 18, 2013 at 4:20pm

Is tomorrow a short stage

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Permalink Reply by Shane on January 18, 2013 at 4:31pm

Easier stage.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 18, 2013 at 4:33pm

Long untimed connection.. not a lot of racing.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 18, 2013 at 8:27pm

a little over 79miles of racing.Any thing can happen in racing

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Permalink Reply by ROBERT SAVAGE on January 18, 2013 at 4:36pm

more like 50 mins behind 13th place

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Permalink Reply by Shane on January 18, 2013 at 4:37pm

#317 hasn't come in yet. He was 11 mins 41 sec ahead at wp12.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 18, 2013 at 4:40pm

Kahle 11:28 ahead of RG in 13th overall at finish. Gonna be hard to make that up tomorrow unless Kahle breaks. 50 minutes or so behind 12th. RG likely to finish the rally 14th.. but a good fight after losing 5 hours on stage 4. Not many of the leaders broke down this year.

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Permalink Reply by QuailCrazy on January 18, 2013 at 4:47pm

Way to go Robby bring it home. To hell with those French douche bags.

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Permalink Reply by Ken deubel on January 18, 2013 at 4:53pm

Robby just needs to start next years Dakar slow, he'll kick the frenchies a$$ if he does. He is defifinetly a superior driver.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on January 18, 2013 at 5:08pm

He started slow "Too conservative to be exact" and Beached it. Robby said himself he needs to "Wear down" the competition and that would be a catch me if you can thing thus If he ran in the money from the get go other drivers woiuld be pushing hard as thus, therefore, and or for the most part would be a recipe for succes at hand on the traveling plane of come play my game...........which you can't so you loose...Sad we got a stick in both eyes as the gremlins came running in right away and I'm not even going to touch on a bunch of people running around in circles trying to find the magic idiot light while the elder statesman runs off in the distance free and clear and yes all that in one breath!