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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Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on January 8, 2016 at 2:46pm

Oddly enough Boogity Boogity Boogity is the same in Spanish

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fernandez on January 8, 2016 at 2:51pm

This Bolivian announcer could make watching trees grow exciting for awhile.

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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on January 8, 2016 at 2:45pm

Well I look at it this way, still ahead of last year's overall standing to this point, correct ?

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Permalink Reply by David Z on January 8, 2016 at 2:48pm

Seems like this every year. Runs with the best of them, if not for the one or two bad days.

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Permalink Reply by Wally Meier on January 8, 2016 at 2:49pm

+1 JR "it ain't over till it's over"

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fernandez on January 8, 2016 at 2:48pm

I was timing some of the cars off the start while watching the stream - http://livestream.com/accounts/10468276/BtvDeportes?t=1452172584845 . I would time it from the start to a certain camera position. The 3 peugeots, Nasser's mini and the first 2 toyotas had similiar times of around 11.5 seconds. A couple of other minis and the Gordini clocked in at about 13.5 seconds. I can only very roughly guess that these were anywhere from 0-50mph - 0-70 mph times. A 2 second difference in acceleration in that short of a distance seems to be alot.