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

[Cuttle]

Nice work

Let's see if we get another mud-gate....

Originally Posted by Bluebull2007

Between Wp2 & 3 (it may be a little wet at this time of year)

[Brodovitch]

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With the sixth rider reaching the first time-check point, the provisional order has changed: Olivier Pain is on the coat tails of Kurt Caselli, with only three seconds separating the two bikers. Frans Verhoeven climbs into joint third place alongside Polish rider Kuba Przygosky, 27” behind the leader.

sounds like the boys are drag racing

[ararat]

Originally Posted by Vladtux

Really good post!!

I hear the cars start like 1pm local time! that mean going to be really HOT!!!

10:57 for robby gordon. so i am guessing most will be there by lunch.

[Balkan Boy]

No one in top 10 is losing more then a minute to the leader except for Cyril Despres.
If his bike has been leaned for altitude other KTMs are not. Hmm ...

[too old]

Originally Posted by ararat

Podium material.

It's wired out there, he rally wasn't that quick in Morocco, what can speed a guy up so much in 3 months

[orlando_orange]

Originally Posted by 8340SU

and that's strange because matt fish was somewhere there (behind him) and he menage to finish the race.......

hmmmm maybe he had some, ahem, assistance, at there-fuelling point....

[Bluebull2007]

So now that I have had a chance to look at the times, I have to assume Cyril and Faria screwed up the navigation on the salt flats

Its going to be difficult for them to catch up, unless they ride faster than the others on the two track section.

oh BTW, if anyone drops thier bike at this altitude, picking it up will be like picking up a 990 when you are wasted.

[ararat]

Originally Posted by Balkan Boy

No one in top 10 is losing more then a minute to the leader except for Cyril Despres.
If his bike has been leaned for altitude other KTMs are not. Hmm ...

Seems like he has some mechanical, it could be leaning of the gas or some other... the question is who is going to solve this problem when he gets to the empty biv? . marathon is not the stage to play with settings!
but he probably has to help him out.

[8340SU]

botturi and caselli overtook cyril on track, nav error ??

[too old]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

Kurt consistently eating 3 minutes per WP on Cyril. At the 3rd he is +9

what a debut

He'll slow soon as he may have to start navigating at the front

[Bluebull2007]

Originally Posted by Cuttle

Nice work

Let's see if we get another mud-gate....

Conditions in that wet are usually hard, but the salt water - I dont know what it will to do the bikes!

[too old]

Originally Posted by too old

He'll slow soon as he may have to start navigating at the front

Or he will tomorrow

[ZequeArgentina]

Originally Posted by Vladtux

X2

Really good post Bluebull2007!!

I hear the cars start like 1pm local time! that mean going to be really HOT!!!

Not today.
Very high altitude, yesterdys -2ºC, even snowing at the "Paso de Jama", highest temperature for today there 14 degrees celsius.
Today is COLD, not HOT. In lower parts (high anyway), would be warmer but not hot.

[Brodovitch]

Originally Posted by Bluebull2007

So now that I have had a chance to look at the times, I have to assume Cyril and Faria screwed up the navigation on the salt flats

Its going to be difficult for them to catch up, unless they ride faster than the others on the two track section.

oh BTW, if anyone drops thier bike at this altitude, picking it up will be like picking up a 990 when you are wasted.

Not so sure, at least Cyril is consistently losing time at a steady rhythm of 3 minutes per waypoint to Kurt (less to Chaleco), not just one chunk of time at a specific section of the course ... ?

[ric678]

Dakar: 09:30 EST:

It appears rookie f5 contender ric678 had a complete internet failure at 09:09 EST, He appears to have his technical issues worked out now and is continuing forward.