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 yano on January 6, 2014 at 12:44pm

We wanna chat !!!!!

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 6, 2014 at 12:52pm

not today. Only when live tracking is working

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Permalink Reply by JerseyJeff on January 6, 2014 at 12:44pm

no chat today?

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Permalink Reply by javier on January 6, 2014 at 12:45pm

14:41 Cars: Technical problems for Sousa
News at last about Carlos Sousa who has still not reached the CP after 259 km of the car special stage: the Portuguese driver has been racing his Haval with a broken turbo from the 33 km point.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 6, 2014 at 12:46pm

What we know is Robby has the 15th best time thru 259KM so far according to Dakar.com

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Permalink Reply by JerseyJeff on January 6, 2014 at 12:47pm

just my opinion but... why cant Dakar have better live tracking. seems in years past that they updated at WP more often.... just signing on... any news on RG

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 6, 2014 at 12:51pm

15th car through WP4KM259, according to Dakar.com....So, the question remains, was he physically the 15th car through ( but could be better than a 15th place car?) or did he actually record the current 15th place time at KM259.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 6, 2014 at 12:53pm

Well Roma and Sousa have had problems so if RG started 17th he has physically passed those two on course at least resulting in I assume being 15th on course maybe. Who knows we are guessing here..