Jan 7th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 3 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 3 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon had more vapor lock issues during stage 2, and now finds himself over 3h45m behind. The cars are scheduled to begin the 433km special section at 9:00am/et, Robby Gordon will be the 30th car off the line, beginning his stage at 9:52am/et.

2014 Stage 2 Photos

STAGE 3 TRACKING

STAGE 3: SAN RAFAEL > SAN JUAN

Connection 295km | Special Stage 301km | Total 596km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The competitors of the 2014 Dakar will experience their first taste of the mountains by passing through the Pre-Andes. The Aconcagua Volcano stands 6,962m high and will observe the progress of the vehicles, of which a part will rehearse their high mountain driving techniques. The motorcyclists will climb up 4,300 metres during their special stage, on a ridgeline where they will have the impression of towering over the whole of America! The descent will bring them back to the tough reality of the drivers of the Dakar, as they will only have finished the first part of this marathon stage. They will have to ensure the mechanics for their own vehicles at the isolated bivouac which has been set up for them.

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 Dutch on January 7, 2014 at 6:10pm

LMAO! My tech's boy...still laughing!

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 7, 2014 at 6:33pm

haha

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Permalink Reply by Brian Hartwick on January 7, 2014 at 7:29pm

Excellent Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Adam G on January 7, 2014 at 6:51pm

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Permalink Reply by Rob Waldrip on January 7, 2014 at 8:08pm

lol

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Permalink Reply by WJM on January 7, 2014 at 7:08pm

Damn, that's worse than me.

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Permalink Reply by Jamie LaVelle on January 7, 2014 at 5:51pm

and everybody gave me shit 2 days ago when I mentioned he should increase the aeroscoop inlet . . . Oil Well

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Permalink Reply by FD REBEL on January 7, 2014 at 5:56pm

There is a lot of smarts on this site ...I think they boys in the bivy should take advantage....after all its free and some of it right on the money.....!!!

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Permalink Reply by Dave Shaw on January 7, 2014 at 5:56pm

car / audio305 - ROBBY GORDONYou never know what happens...

The sad part is that it's only been fuel issues. I don't know if they've changed the blend with the chemical, but we've basically got the same set up as we had last year. We put some additive in last night, changed some rodding and some lines and today we didn't have any problems. We weren't as hot and high as we were when we had the problems on the first two days. It's unfortunate because it's a good race truck. We made up twenty eight minutes on Peterhansel right there so that will take us down from three forty-eight to three fifteen... If we do that a couple more times then you never know what happens...