2019 Dakar Stage 2 Discussion

Join in to discuss Stage 2 of the 2019 Dakar Rally, January 8th, 2019

Pisco > San Juan de Marcona

Liaison: 553 km / 344 miles
Stage: 324 km / 201 miles

Schedule: *All times local time GMT-5 (3 hours ahead of PST)

Robby Gordon - 6:18am/et | Blade Hildebrand - 6:33:30am/et | Cole Potts 6:42am/et

Live Tracking Dakar Site -> https://www.dakar.com/en/stage-2/car

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Permalink Reply by pdxracefan on January 7, 2019 at 10:34pm

Too damn early for me. I'll join up when I'm awake.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 7, 2019 at 10:45pm

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Permalink Reply by MTG on January 7, 2019 at 10:53pm

I hope they all get some rest

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 7, 2019 at 11:09pm

This working for a living stuff sucks.
I have to check in when I get home and see what happened during the day.
Could be worse I spose.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 7, 2019 at 11:11pm

Good to see the team made it past the first dune.
The way I see it if they all 3 finish the race it will be a victory.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 8, 2019 at 12:17am

2019 Dakar Stage 2 Start Times

Robby Gordon - 6:18am/et

Blade Hildebrand - 6:33:30am/et

Cole Potts - 6:42am/et

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Permalink Reply by Robert Ryan on January 8, 2019 at 12:18am

Maybe that could be the definition of " success" as all three Buggies are fairly slow

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 8, 2019 at 6:47am

Robby Gordon has begun stage 2

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Permalink Reply by Michael Butler on January 8, 2019 at 7:24am

Chat today?? And Whoa.. RG just took 1st for WP1..By 10 minutes?? Wait, what?

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Permalink Reply by GLuce on January 8, 2019 at 7:25am

wait, what? rg first at wp1 by 10 minutes? lol

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 8, 2019 at 7:27am

Here is what I think.

Robby has to stop for fuel in this stage, so I am guessing they factor in the 15 Minutes from the get go, so once he stops that large time lead will go away

I'm hope I'm wrong lol

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Permalink Reply by Michael Butler on January 8, 2019 at 7:31am

That would make sense. It stinks not having more detailed course information. I can't imagine that he's beat everyone else by 1/3rd of the time. Watching the ticker, it did look like he was on a similar pace as the rest of the field.