Dakar 2012 - Official Event Coverage - THANK YOU all Lurkers and Posters!!

He'll probably wait for the best light conditions for the camera crews to catch him now he's a star.

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Now start counting your avitar...

may be he is spearing the engine??
or may be not

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still loosing ground!

Yes. Just repeating what you guys already said but wonder if "engine not swapping" is playing a part now. Ironic, wouldn't it be? Either that or something broke/clogged as a consequence of the mud bogging. We would expect a very, very sharp alien recover after the mud episode...

The mud may well have taken it's toll...

I remember watching these two aliens riding through the mud last year, simply in awe...

I think you could be absolutely on the money there catas. That statement would have carried a lot more weight if it had been made immediately after the event. It smacks of closing ranks to protect commercial interests to me. Whatever Andy Grider says now will look a bit like sour grapes (even if it's true).

Where can we see if Faria is behind Despres in the track?

Especially after a fuel stop to sort out any easy mechanicals... I am leaning towards injury.... hope not... This is shaping up into a great race... as always...

lets hope he doesn't go "check out" that mud hole

I respectfully disagree... I think whatever Andy says now will be a gust of fresh air to rid us of all this corporate PR shit-stench

Here. http://trackingdakar.com/index.php?...h=1&country=PRT&track=81&section=3&order=time

He was, at WP3.

Yeah I didn't mean to us, I meant to the larger less educated (?????) audience.

Or try http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2012/us/stage-8/live-timing/sector-2-cp-1-bikes-time.html

Doing a "catalogue man" style pose against his Katoom as the heli does a fly-by -- "hello ladies"...

That was CP1.

This is CP2

http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2012/us/stage-8/live-timing/sector-2-cp-2-bikes-time.html

And order is restored to the universe...

Barreda & Svitko 2nd & 3rd to Coma at WP3,
but did not make time on him ...

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well no matter what, if he keeps going like this he'll be starting behind a lot of bikes tomorrow and will really struggle to make up the time, balkan boy's love-alien or not!!

And Rodrigues was the fastest between WP2 and WP3. Faster than Coma by 1 second.

This new tracker feature is hardcore. Thank you Mischa