DAKAR 2010

[Dwayne OMember]

:woohoo: Don`t forget to catch the action on here starting Jan 1st
Last years first in South America was a gem & this promises to be even better

Link here http://www.dakar.com/index_DAKus.html

ENJOY

[Dwayne OMember]

Not long now, scrutineering is well underway.
There is even a Virtual Dakar Rally game that you can log onto, it follows the race stage by stage :blink:

What will they think of next????

[Eric SmithMember]

Best of luck to our Aussie contenders Garry & Rob and any others I may have missed – oh, and Bruce Garland in an Isuzu D-Max as well! Now this is a serious race!

[Dwayne OMember]

MAL 5.1 will be chuffed that Frenchman Davis Casteau is currently leading the Dakar after stage 1 on his 450cc SHERCO

He is someone always full of surprises; like setting up his own team for instance, with French constructor Sherco, grabbing the opportunity thrown up by the switch over to 450cc for all the competitors in the bike race in the near future. David Casteu, often arbitrator in proceedings between Cyril Despres and Marc Coma, and 2nd in the Dakar in 2007 and 4th in 2009, has chosen to challenge his rivals on a newly designed and less powerful bike. The road is still long, but this bold decision has already been rewarded on the first special stage of the 2010 edition, in which the rider from Nice scored the day’s best time, 3″ ahead of Cyril Despres, and 12” in front of title holder Marc Coma. The gaps are small in light of what still awaits them, but this stage win is symbolically significant for brave David.

[Anonymous]

EAGLE`02 wrote:

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The road is still long, but this bold decision has already been rewarded on the first special stage of the 2010 edition, in which the rider from Nice scored the day’s best time, 3″ ahead of Cyril Despres, and 12” in front of title holder Marc Coma.

Wow, how close is the racing, he’s beating Cyril Despres by only 3 inches with Marc Coma only 12 inches behind too!

EAGLE`02 wrote:

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The gaps are small in light of what still awaits them

No kidding

[Dwayne OMember]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Thanx for that Steven,,,,
I actually cut that from the Dakar site And the ” means seconds si that makes the gaps soooo much bigger :laugh:

Plenty of good racing to come, along with awsome navigational skills, which is what really counts in this race

[GregMember]

Don’t worry Eagle I knew what you talking about (which is scary within itself :huh:)
Be careful though when you correct him

Maybe the decision to go to 450’s will tighten the racing up which would be good, but imagine losing the whole thing by 3 seconds :angry:

Has either of you or anyone else seen the updates on SBS or whatever yet?

TB

[Anonymous]

I did realize that Mr Beagle, but I couldn’t help but take to micky out of your cut and paste skills.

For such a big race it seems the competition so far is tighter than ever

[Anonymous]

If anyone is interested the ” actually comes from measuring angles (ECKS can tell you lots about this) where degrees are represented by a o, minutes are represented by a ‘ and seconds are represented by a ” and are shown as 32o 15’ 22”.

A minute is 1/60th of a degree and a second is 1/60 of a minute. So there you go……

[GregMember]

I didnt know that Steven :blush:

Cheers

TB

[Dwayne OMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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Don’t worry Eagle I knew what you talking about (which is scary within itself :huh:)
Be careful though when you correct him

Maybe the decision to go to 450’s will tighten the racing up which would be good, but imagine losing the whole thing by 3 seconds :angry:

Has either of you or anyone else seen the updates on SBS or whatever yet?

TB

Yeh, update was on SBS at 12 midday & again nightly at 6pm

[Dwayne OMember]

As for the 450`s, look how well Fretigne from France did last year on the WR 450 :blink:
He enen ran about 700ks in one stage with little or no engine oil from memory :blink:

I reckon the 450`s are the go, tight racing over that course & didtance, who would ever brlieve that to be possible ???????????

:woohoo:

[Dwayne OMember]

Sad to see that a spectator has already been killed after an accident only 75ks into Stage 1 yesterday. He died in hospital overnight :unsure:
He was in a group that was hit by a car, they were not in an allocated spectator zone which is unfortunate. Crazy as it sounds, it is a common occurrence sadly

Can`t imagine how a competitor would cope with that sort of incident :huh: :dry:

[MalMember]

EAGLE`02 wrote:

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MAL 5.1 will be chuffed that Frenchman Davis Casteau is currently leading the Dakar after stage 1 on his 450cc SHERCO

More than chuffed Eagle. :woohoo:

How good are those Sherco hey.

I do realise that this may only last 1 day, but I’ll milk it while I can..

[Dwayne OMember]

:laugh: Thats why I posted it mate, so you could bathe in the GLORY of a podium finish :laugh:

Well 1 anyway

He went really well apparently & in his interview said he planned to attack all rally :huh:
Plenty of ambition, he owns the team too :laugh:

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