Dakar 2014 - Official Event Coverage - thank you all, lurkers and posters!!!

Cyril Despres is starting the first special of 2014. Dakar.

Best of luck to everyone.

Almost got a shock from reading this:

Nice dude, meet him during the Australian Safari 2012. Very limited English, but I learnt plenty of Italian to communicate with him. He also had bad luck there with his engine. I did a cylinder replacement on his Honda after his breather hose of the cylinder head came loose and sucked in dirty air causing him to lose compression. Let's hope his motor holds up!

You're kidding!! In under 100 km?? What ever happened to 'testing'?? :eek1

This is cool. Mech breakdowns already ;-)

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Someone's been sawing away and Chicherit's driveshaft I hear?



Maybe he just had to take a number two

Evening all (9:30pm here in Perth, Western Australia). I've been hiding for a while but Dakar will always bring me to the surface. I'll be watching closely.

5 (tapatalk) pages for the liaison....

HRC director says: "I so disappoint"

and... why?

Rally Vantage ‏@RallyVantage 4h
A boy climbs a tree to get a glimpse of vehicles during the symbolic start of the @dakar Rally in Rosario on Saturday

I am in. Far too busy to be as active as in years past but let em rip!

That's it? I woke up early fer sakes alive

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Says who?



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Barrier makes the f5irst one for 2014...

what are you tracking on, I've got nothing?

I've got Coma at 21:03, 2nd Despres at +9sec!

There we are.
I don't want to jinx it, but it seems the tracking is working.

Posis for CP1 is open:
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2014/us/stage-1/live-timing/sector-2-cp-1-bikes-time.html

He missread the top line of mischa's overall matrix... there was a time of 2 hours 14 minutes and 33 sec expressed there momentarily... now is corrected... both Cyri and Coma thru the first timing interval with Marc up by 9 seconds...

The rest should start filtering through now.

Barreda!

Got to be first at something!!!
Misc's site shows Cyril through CP1 at 2hrs 14min 33s....WTF!:huh