2017 STAGE 12 FINAL STAGE 2017

RIO CUARTO- BUENOS AIRES

January 14th 2017

They took on the adventure, and will now become heroes. The 64 final kilometres of the selective section will pose nary a problem… you just have to go the distance, before enjoying an arrival of the special stage placed in the heart of the bivouac. At the end of a long liaison section, the podium ceremony in Buenos Aires will be conducted in front of the Argentine Automobile Club (ACA).

786km 64km SPECIAL -Bikes, Quads, Cars, Utvs, Trucks

Bikes, Quads start time 6:15am local
Cars, start time 8:28am local
UTVs, start time 7:44am local
Trucks, start time 8:11am local
start times are 2hr's ahead of ET

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 14, 2017 at 9:59am

1 300 PETERHANSEL (FRA) COTTRET (FRA) PEUGEOT 28:49:30
2 309 LOEB (FRA) ELENA (MCO) PEUGEOT 28:54:43 00:05:13-
3 307 DESPRES (FRA) CASTERA (FRA) PEUGEOT 29:22:58 00:33:28
4 305 ROMA (ESP) HARO BRAVO (ESP) TOYOTA 30:06:13 01:16:43
5 302 DE VILLIERS (ZAF) VON ZITZEWITZ (DEU) TOYOTA 30:39:18 01:49:48
6 308 TERRANOVA (ARG) SCHULZ (DEU) MINI 30:42:01 01:52:31
7 316 PRZYGONSKI (POL) COLSOUL (BEL) MINI 33:04:17 04:14:47
8 318 DUMAS (FRA) GUEHENNEC (FRA) PEUGEOT 33:13:31 04:24:01
9 320 RAUTENBACH (ZWE) HOWIE (ZAF) TOYOTA 33:29:43 04:40:13
10 322 ABU-ISSA (QAT) PANSERI (FRA) MINI 33:43:00 04:53:30
11 321 PROKOP (CZE) MINOR (AUT) FORD 33:48:21 04:58:51 01:00:00
12 323 FUCHS (PER) MUSSANO (ARG) HRX 34:43:50 05:54:20 01:00:00
13 303 HIRVONEN (FIN) PERIN (FRA) MINI 34:45:30 05:56:00
14 310 VAN LOON (NLD) ROSEGAAR (NLD) TOYOTA 34:54:56 06:05:26-
15 325 SCHOTT (DEU) FIUZA (PRT) MINI 36:14:02 07:24:32

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 14, 2017 at 10:10am

Stephane with the win. the once winning Mini 5th, 6th and 10th. And Toyota enjoying the 1mm increase in restrictor, with 4th and 5th. with 2 cancelled stages and a couple shortened the race just never had any excitement for me.
I'm very happy that I did not use a week vacation to follow the boring event this year. Marc Coma/ASO needs to stop running the course thru dry river beds and high altitudes. Why ? the weather is more unpredictable and when it rains, it's flash flooding in those once dry river beds.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 14, 2017 at 10:23am

a couple other notes
Tim and Tom Coronel finished. the irony is day 1 they where listed in the UTV class, ASO moved them back to a car class that night. They where beat by the winning UTV ( 54h ) by about 20 hours. The winning UTV would have been about 35th in the cars
KAMAZ -1st,2nd and 5th IVECO 3rd-4th

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Permalink Reply by FD REBEL on January 14, 2017 at 10:31am

Cool, thanks Mike for all the work on the interweb!

Parker?

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Permalink Reply by WJM on January 14, 2017 at 12:00pm

The all French team gets their podium sweep. Yay.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Ryan on January 14, 2017 at 2:07pm

Good for me. Loeb nearly made it, in his second Dakar. Peterhansel at age 41 is "Mr Dakar" 6 Bike and 7 Car wins, pretty well never to be repeated.
Toyota were dominant in the Gas class of the event, Mini's were handicapped by having fairly new ex WRC Drivers with limited experience of the Dakar
Americans were noted by their absence.
Coronel twins did well in their tiny engined Buggies
Russian and Belarus Truck manufacturers, who are not seen outside, Russia and Belarus dominated in the Truck category,