Dakar 2013 - Official Event Coverage - thank you ALL TeamF5, lurkers and posters!

Behind the top riders some friends racing there.

Henno van Bergeijk overall winner of Balkan 2012 is on the 49th
Manuel Luchesse is on 106
Ferdinard Kreidl from KLS Austria is 116
Greek Karathanasis is on 167
and Todor Hristov co-organizer of Balkan Marathon is 33 on quads

Thanks for the links guys!

Did the guy who fixed his 150 with his braclet start today?

Haha! you guys obviously have much more self-control than me. My throttle's usually only got two positions.

Doesn't look like Campbell or Pavey are moving.

One step forward and two back!

Wow eventually caught up, as I was reading through pages kept being added. God I love this time of year!

Yes, Belaustegui with the 2-stroke ktm should be starting.

Seems some problem for Verhoven.

Good recovery from Chaleco Lopez, also from Pizzolito (at least in forst part of the stage)

Already like it a lot! The colour-coding indicates positions moved up or down since last WP? Very cool.

It's a bit more advanced than that, but yes that's about it Thanks too!

This just been posted on the official Dakar app.

Chaleco's back
Chile's Francisco López (KTM) has just beaten Cyril Despres at km*62. His time of 41'15" was 53" faster than the Frenchman's.

Car update:

Carlos Sainz and co-driver Timo Gottschalk have won stage 2 of the 2013 Dakar in their Qatar buggy equipped with Toyo Tires Open Country M/TR tires. With two wins from the first two stages, Sainz leads the rally by 5 minutes and 5 seconds from the X-Raid Mini of 2012 winner Peterhansel.

From what I gather Carlos appealed and was given back time at the contended WP he couldn't unlock

link

It seems to indicate those with higher improvement (or worst performance), comapring to previous status

Has anyone seen the little Smart car bodied Polaris buggy yet? Forget his number, but looked interesting about a month ago.

Nice! I'm not very good at the tracking thing, you've made it much easier!

Awesome, Mischa!

Question: what's the threshold for the red/green flagging?

Also just noted that the field expanded again. Thanks!

Flood, I got the sequence on tve channel at 21:30
http://www.rtve.es/m/alacarta/videos/dakar/?media=tve

Mischa back to the full field!