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Jan 13th, 2015 Dakar Rally Stage 9 Race Info & Discussion
Join in and discuss all the action from stage 9 of the 2015 Dakar Rally. After a much needed rest day, the team is ready to score their first stage win of the rally. The special section of stage 9 is 451km long. Robby Gordon start time: 8:51am/et, and he will be the 17th car off the line. After a 43rd place finish in stage 8, Gordon sits 24th in the overall standings, 6h53m behind. Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2015 Dakar Rally.
2015 Stage 8 Photos
STAGE 9 TRACKING
STAGE 9: IQUIQUE > CALAMA
Connection 88km | Special Stage 451km | Total 539km
COURSE OVERVIEW
For this farewell session to the Atacama Desert, all the competitors will come together once again for the special stage, with fifty-odd kilometres over sand and dunes. They should revel in these sensations because the next stage will put both drivers and their teams into much less comfortable positions. The routes have suff ered the rages of time and will be equally harsh on them: frequent potholes and bumps combined with the narrowness of the tracks will expose their vehicles’ bodywork to scratches.
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 Chet Raschka on
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On the trackingdakar.nl site they don't show a WP9 for bikes. Everyone follow the wrong track?
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Permalink Reply by Bob on
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The zebra car is really moving today, although what the situation is with WP9 is remains a mystery. Not a single one of the quads found it apparently, and it's simply not listed for the bikes. The truck that was in 5th place seems to have found WP9 which has moved him up to 1st for the moment. A very few cars continue to be added to the list of those found it, and those who did find it seem to have made up time on the leaders, rather than loosing the 20 mins or so which many seem to have lost in the search.
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Mark, I know what you mean about people not showing up on the tracking, but still being OK. What's suspicious here is that those who did not show up at WP9 are listed as loosing a whole ton of time at WP10, as though they spent that time driving around in circles looking for WP9. So it could be a matter of people getting lost, or it could be a technical problem with the WP itself. Like that people have driven by it properly, but whatever sort of transmitter they have was not working, causing people to believe that they had missed it when they hadn't . As per usual the Dakar site is acting like everything is fine, and making no mention of the problems that people seem to be having today.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Reeves on
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Fair point Bob, let's wait and see what happens!
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Engrav on
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Chicherit did it! 3rd on today's stage, 14:09 back!
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Permalink Reply by Raul Herrera on
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do they need a mechanic? LOL
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As Shane said, now it seems that the Dutch tracker has simply eliminated the scoring for WP9, for the bikes, trucks, cars, and quads. So the problem may indeed have been with the tracking equipment. Will they give people back the time they spent looking for the thing ? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Chich never registered at wp1or 2 so it's all messed up today.
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Maybe they had to transport the timing equipment across the salt flats yesterday, and that's what did it. As I understand, the bikes were seriously pissed off that they were given their rest day *before* they had to go across the salt. As I understand, many broke down because of electrical problems, and then did not get back to the bivouac with time enough to fix them and then make it to the start of today's stage.
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