Jan 8th, 2016 Dakar Rally Stage 6 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 6 of the 2016 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 8th in Stage 5, and his teammate, Sheldon Creed, finished 33rd. The special section of Stage 6 is 542km. Robby Gordon start time: 8:25am/et, Sheldon Creed start time: 9:05am/et.


2016 Stage 4 Photos


STAGE 6 TRACKING


STAGE 6: UYUNI > UYUNI

Connection 181km | Special Stage 542km | Total 723km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The longest special section of the Dakar takes place on the 6th day of consecutive racing. And that is not the only difficulty of this operation, which will take place between 3,500 and 4,200m in altitude. The pace and surfaces change constantly, alternating between sand and rock, which may be disconcerting, especially if it rains. Glimpses of the Salar d’Uyuni are but one of the visual delights on the agenda. Meanwhile, the truck category, which will race separately on this 6th stage, will visit the home town of the President Evo Morales.


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

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Who makes that flat front truck in Terminator? That should be pperfect

Stephan, thank you for the youtube link. There are 15 episodes about Puegoets Dakar program, it is the definition of "Factory" effort. Those who haven't seen the videos, search "peugeot unchained" episodes 1 -15.

i watched it and basically they took a production block and spent millions developing an engine that stretches the rules

They stretched the rules alright. Not only in this area ..... Millions. They were embarrassed last year ...

for sure they were embaressed but id say it might have something to do with whatever turbo they are using as they fail to mention any details about it but go fairly indepth with the rest with images

50lbs of boost maybe ? haha

Probably more, I don't know the calculation but how much air do you need in a 3.0 to make 600ft lb.

600lb-ft x 5000 rpm ~ 5252 =571hp

Um...

I’m not superstitious, but again, I don’t want to jinx Robby, but his opportunity to gain in the overall at the moment is looking pretty good: #’s 328, 316, 325, 329 have just now reached waypoint 5 and #’s 306 & 308 have yet to even reach waypoint 2.

12:45 : Cars: Lavieille halted

Christian Lavieille, behind the wheel of his Duster number 308, is currently at a standstill on the special after 150 kilometres due to a technical problem.

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