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

[cyborg]

Whew!

Clif Notes caught up, MOST of the F5irehose between meetings, no lunch catchup available, and viewed both France 4 and Eurosport Highlights torrents over dinner, awesome footage! Wife rolls her eyes, but after years of this madness, has mostly come to accept it Brushing up on my French in the France 4 broadcasts.

I'm barely staying ahead of the F5sweeper truck.

Tomorrows pics and vids should be epic! "they will quail" over the steep dunes!

[Wyvern]

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I'm barely staying ahead of the F5sweeper truck.

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[troy safari carpente]

Mornin' all...

[cyborg]

Night all, happy F5in'

[Vicks]

look at the special stage distances. Dakar = ISDE

Dakar 2013: The first half stages

• Jan. 5, Stage 1: Lima (Peru) - Pisco – total distance 263 km: 250 km liaison and 13 km special (shortest stage in the 2013 edition)
• Jan. 6, Stage 2: Pisco - Pisco – (loop) total distance 327 km: 85 km liaison, 242 km special
• Jan. 7, Stage 3: Pisco - Nazca – total distance 343 km: 100 km liaison, 243 km special
• Jan. 8, Stage 4: Nazca - Arequipa – total distance 718 km: 429 km liaison, 289 special
• Jan. 9, Stage 5: Arequipa - Arica – total distance 411 km: 275 km liaison, 136 km special
• Jan. 10, Stage 6: Arica - Calama – Total distance 767 km: 313 km liaison, 454 km special
• Jan. 11, Stage 7: Calama - Salta (rally enters Argentina) – total distance 806 km: 586 km liaison, 220 km special
• Jan. 12, Stage 8: Salta - Tucuman – total distance 738 km: 247 liaison, 491 km special
• Jan. 13: REST DAY in Tucuman, Argentina

Dakar 2013: The second half stages

• Jan. 14, Stage 9: Tucuman - Cordoba – total distance 852 km: 259 km liaison, 593 km special (longest stage of the 2013 edition)
• Jan. 15, Stage 10: Cordoba - La Rioja – total distance 636 km: 279 km liaison, 357 km special
• Jan. 16, Stage 11: La Rioja - Fiambala – total distance 483 km: 262 km liaison, 221 km special
• Jan. 17, Stage 12: Fiambala - Copiaco (rally enters Chile) – total distance 715 km: 396 km liaison, 319 km special
• Jan. 18, Stage 13: Copiaco - La Serena – total distance 735 km: 294 km liaison, 441 km special
• Jan. 19, Stage 14: La Serena - Santiago – total distance 630 km: 502 liaison, 128 km special
• Jan. 20: Closing ceremony Santiago

not sure i saw this posted - a video from stage2. apologies if i'm 205'ing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-IfUI5g0nI

[leeo45]

Originally Posted by troy safari carpente

Mornin' all...

Morning. Trying to hang in here in the States hoping Don Hatton can make it to the finish. Mainly hoping he is OK. Can't quite imagine being run over by a truck in the dark.

Pos - - - - - - - - - - Name - - - - Make - - - - - WP1 - - - - - - - WP2 - - - - - - - -WP3 - - - - - - WP4 - - - - - WP5 - - - - - - WP6 - - - - - -WP7 - - - - - - WPA

15 (164) 110 - HATTON Don (CAN) KTM +00:24:37 (160) +02:29:05 (157) +05:57:43 (161) +06:17:05 (158) +06:43:17 (157) +07:01:42 (155) +07:29:30 (152) +00:07:25

Go Don!

[K_N_Fodder]

Barely avoided the F5 sweeper, thoughts to Don Hatton as I hit the rack.

[practicalshooter]

Mornin'

Only 23 pages, one torrent and Pyn on RallyRaidio to catch up this morning. Walk in the park

[Vicks]

coasting down the bigass dunes will save a lot of fuel.

If the HRC riders push their bikes up hill today they'll not run out of gas before CP1 i bet....

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by Yamezz

I can't see the GIFs. Am I just retarded?

Originally Posted by knybanjo

Blank here too

Originally Posted by NovaMoto

They were working..

We don't use the "retarded" word in here...

we refer to those F5er's with challenges in life ass those less GIFted...

They're still working BTW...

[tHEtREV]

I'm still trying to catch up from yesterday, I have no phone coverage at my work site and I had to go out all night last night...

So can I cut and run or do I have to go back and read the past two days posts?

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by Iron Horse

sand barge...

can they lighten the ballast?

Yep...

They got heaps lighter, the further you went

[Yamezz]

Originally Posted by troy safari carpente

We don't use the "retarded" word in here...

we refer to those F5er's with challenges in life ass those less GIFted...

They're still working BTW...

I can see the second one now, but not the first.

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by PackMule

Any Spanish speakers want to take a crack at this tweet from Carlos Sainz? Google translate wasn't exactly revealing...

"Malas noticias. La organización ha decidido volver a ponernos la penalización de los 21 mnts. Una vergüenza dan ganas de coger las maletas.

Originally Posted by HogWild

Sainz lost his time back. Now he's 21min behind Peterhandel. I guess so many had the same exact problem, they decided they couldn't give just one guy his time back.

Originally Posted by Lobby;20423663[B

]"Bad news. The organization has decided to reinstate the 21 minute penalty. An embarrassment (that) gives me the urge to pick up (pack, more probably) my suitcases."[/B]

Oh.... poor little Carlos has a (WRC) prima donna moment... and (vaguely) threatens to pack up his cape and go home, like a grumpy little matador...

Standard sainz tactic, threaten to exit stage left dramatically to get officialdom to tippy toe... did it in WRC, did it at VW...

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by doyle

Hi boys, like my hat?

he's looking well rested this morning... the pole dancers must have keep the Bosse sound system on low last night after the Chianti and goose liver paté supper in the RV...