Jan 6th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 2 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 2 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon had vapor lock issues during stage 1, and finds himself over 2 hours behind. The cars are scheduled to begin the 433km special section at 8:55am/et, Robby Gordon will probably begin the stage at 9:36am/et (Subject to change) Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2014 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.

2014 Stage 1 Photos

STAGE 2 TRACKING

STAGE 2: SAN LUIS > SAN RAFAEL

Connection 365km | Special Stage 433km | Total 798km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The fastest special stage of the rally, at least for its first part, will also be the one where drivers will have to face the first dunes. And it won’t just be a brief encounter with sand: in the last 100 kilometres, the exploration of the grey dunes of Nihuil will be even more intensive than during previous visits. The sand is more firm there, but the experience will provide a great deal of insight about each of the competitors’ technical skills. In short it will be a veritable test.

The GREEN section of the route is the connection , the RED is the Special Section of the stage.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 6, 2014 at 11:06am

Live chat will go up after the RG crosses the first waypoint.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 6, 2014 at 11:06am

The way I read the tracker they will not give any updates today for cars until they Arrive at the end.
The bikes WP 4 is highlighted in red ant the WP's they show in red seems to be where they post times.
There are no WP's in red for the cars.
If I am correct that really bites butt.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 6, 2014 at 11:07am

The red means they already passed that position Carl. Bikes have passed 4, cars have not yet so therefore it isn't red... yet.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 6, 2014 at 11:09am

That is not true.
The bikes WP4 was red all morning and the only WP for bikes in red ie WP4 but there are 7 or more bikes all the way through.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 6, 2014 at 11:11am

I could be wrong "happen quite often" but that is the way I see it.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 6, 2014 at 11:12am

I do hope you are right for sure.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 6, 2014 at 11:11am

Perhaps you're right Carl.. but I hope not. Anybody got the talent to hack ASO tracking? They certainly cannot be doing all of this with a pen and paper...