2020 DAKAR

January 5th- 17th 2020 100% Saudi Arabia

Robby Gordon is not scheduled to compete.

Saudi Arabia is +8 hours on Eastern Time / +11 on the West Coast.

January 5th-10th, the Rally Raid starts in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and races North East before racing to South Eastern city of Riyadh.

January 11th, Rest Day Riyadh

January 12th-17th, the Rally Raid continues from Riyadh through the South Eastern area of Saudi Arabia before heading to West, finishing in Qiddiya.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on December 9, 2019 at 10:19am

Hiways in Saudi Arabia
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Saudi+Arabia/@25.351101,39.884272...!4m5!3m4!1s0x15e7b33fe7952a41:0x5960504bc21ab69b!8m2!3d23.885942!4d45.079162

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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on December 10, 2019 at 10:42pm

Who do we have from America Mike ?

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Permalink Reply by sabreguy on December 11, 2019 at 8:00am

Ricky Brabec and Andrew Short are in the bike class.
Casey Currie is in the SxS class again I believe.

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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on December 12, 2019 at 7:37am

I was thinking cars. But yes. I love the commercial with Currie. He talks about having no idea how hard it was coming in the first year. How tough it is. All the things RG has been saying for years.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Ryan on December 27, 2019 at 3:22pm

It is the toughest race in the World by a long shot. Although having it in one country MAY make it easier

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on December 11, 2019 at 10:32am

Motorbikes
#6 Andrew Short- Husqvarna
#9 Ricky Brabec- Honda
#47 Garrett Poucher- KTM
#59 Skyler Howes- Husqvarna
#104 Kyle McCoy- KTM
#52 Peter Vlcek, CZE- Husqvarna, Peter has been living in the US for 20? years

No lawnmower entries

Cars
#344 Bobby Patton/ Robby Pierce- Toyota I don't know who Robby P is but Robbie Pierce is the owner of Jimco, Bobby Patton drives a Jimco in SCORE events, Co-owner of the LA Dodgers. I hope they at least have fun.

SXS
#405 Casey Currie/ Sean Berriman- Can-Am
#427 Austin Jones/ Kellon Walch- Can-Am I'm not sure what to expect?

No Truck entries

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on December 11, 2019 at 11:40pm

I failed to mention, I'll be watching #310 Alonso with Marc Coma. I'm betting on Marc helping Fernando to an amazing DAKAR 'Rookie' performance.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Ryan on December 27, 2019 at 3:26pm

Hope we do not jinx Fernando, but that was what they expected of Fernando when he was entered into the Mclaren entry at Indianapolis. Organisation of that effort was pretty bad and Alonso did not even qualify.Unlike his very impressive effort when he first ran Indy