2017 STAGE 7

LA PAZ- UYUNI

January 9th 2017

A Marathon before the resumption. The rally begins its return trip by heading towards what has become one of its regular stomping grounds since 2014. The Uyuni casern, which is well known to the raiders, will once again be transformed into a bivouac for a day. For this first part of the marathon stage, which will include very long sections of sandy tracks, the service park will be open to all vehicles, except for those entered in the assistance category.

622km 160km SPECIAL -Bikes, Quads, Cars, Utvs, Trucks

Bikes, Quads start time 7:45am local
Cars, UTVs start time 10:10am local
Trucks start time 12:12pm local
start times are 1hr ahead of ET

***********UPDATE**********

Following the cancellation of stage 6 on the eve of the rest day, persistent bad weather conditions forced the race directors to change the course of stage 7 from La Paz to Uyuni. A new course was designed and a new road book was drafted during the rest day.The new course is an unprecedented combination of the original routes of stages 6 and 7. Today's 161 km special will mainly take place on sandy terrain, sandwiched between a 400 km link section and another one 240 km long. The special starts at 10 am, with the first motorcycles expected to reach the Uyuni bivouac at 3.30 pm

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 8, 2017 at 8:37pm

basically the stage ends just after the Motorbike CP2 refueling checkpoint.

I was really looking forward to Stage 6 for a couple reasons. One ,I wanted to see if any non Diesels where still in the hunt.And how they would fair on a real Stage against the Diesels at altitude. We'll not have that answer.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Ryan on January 9, 2017 at 5:17am

Only Roma's Toyota and that is very competitive

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 8, 2017 at 8:53pm

my bad, the shortned stage info came from Tim Coronet's twitter feed.

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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on January 8, 2017 at 10:36pm

It's a mess this year ...

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 9, 2017 at 8:34am

********** UPDATE***********
Bikes, Quads start time10:00am local
Cars, UTVs start time 12:20pm local
Trucks start time 2:20pm local
start times are 1hr ahead of ET