Jan 9th, 2016 Dakar Rally Stage 7 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 7 of the 2016 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 50th in Stage 5, and his teammate, Sheldon Creed, finished 37th. The special section of Stage 7 is 353km. Robby Gordon start time: 8:23am/et, Sheldon Creed start time: 8:45am/et.

STAGE 7 TRACKING

STAGE 7: UYUNI > SALTA

Connection 440km | Special Stage 353km | Total 793km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The end of the first week of racing is always a decisive intermediate objective. This year, anyone who has put in the ground work during their preparation and who has respected the major recommendations of the discipline will be able to reach it. However, they still need to get to the end of this exhausting day, which will involve getting their feet wet crossing rivers. It is likely that half of the vehicles will arrive in Salta after nightfall… but perhaps before their assistance teams, who also have a long road ahead of 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 alan4s on January 9, 2016 at 11:07am

Not sure if it's just my cable system here, or NBCSN in general, but they haven't been airing at 5:30 each night here in Tampa. Most nights they end up running at 1:30 AM, and my DVR will find it, but it missed one earlier this week.

I'll need to snag them on line or something. I suspect I'll be in the minority, but I'm kind of glad chat has not been working here. It let's me follow along here as time permits, without missing too much.

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Permalink Reply by David Z on January 9, 2016 at 11:13am

Missed one also, had record series set but they changed the name from "Dakar Rally" to "The Dakar Rally" that one night.
Been at 5:30 ET the whole time here

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 9, 2016 at 4:35pm

Yep, that's what happened. Checked a bit ago.
Meanwhile, just after the my last post, our cable and internet went out all together, and only just came back on. Good thing there was no chat today, now I can follow along from here and catch up.