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

Maybe I should. No idea why, embed don't wanna do it. I replaced it with the direct link

and for the Quad followers

1 250 PATRONELLI (ARG) YAMAHA 004:40:37 00:00:00
2 253 BONETTO (ARG) HONDA 004:43:31 00:02:54 00:00:00
3 252 SONIK (POL) YAMAHA 004:45:34 00:04:57 00:00:00
4 255 HUSSEINI (NLD) HONDA 004:46:43 00:06:06 00:00:00
5 256 LAFUENTE (URY) YAMAHA 004:46:48 00:06:11 00:00:00
6 251 CASALE (CHL) YAMAHA 004:49:24 00:08:47 00:00:00
7 268 GALLEGOS LOZIC (CHL) HONDA 005:23:24 00:42:47 00:00:00
8 257 COPETTI (ARG) YAMAHA 005:30:25 00:49:48 00:00:00

Aannnddd, two of the Freedom Rally Racing troop have made it home:
<table id="resplive" width="100%"><tbody><tr class="even fin track" title="184 MATEO MORENO KRISTIANSEN (COL) on ASS at +01:45:27 (83)"><td>83</td><td>(64)</td><td>184 - MATEO MORENO KRISTIANSEN (COL)
</td><td>KTM
</td><td>09:42:00</td><td>(64)</td><td>+00:30:24</td><td>(71)</td><td class="slow">+01:45:27</td><td class="slow">(83)</td></tr><tr class="odd fin track" title="185 MARCO ANTONIO SALDARRIAGA (COL) on ASS at +01:45:39 (84)"><td>84</td><td>(99)</td><td>185 - MARCO ANTONIO SALDARRIAGA (COL)
</td><td>KTM
</td><td>09:54:30</td><td>(99)</td><td>+00:40:29</td><td>(98)</td><td>+01:45:39</td><td>(84)</td></tr></tbody></table>

On the France 4 report
You could see CD, Chaleco and Coma ridding together on the dunes.
At one point CD, who was leading, just let Chaleco pass him.

It must have been before he crashed as he arrived 2 min behind Chaleco and Coma.

Yep,

C'mon fimp!!!

GdV is in. I think it is a good result considering he started in 16th position today.

<TABLE id=resplive width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR title="300 STEPHANE PETERHANSEL (FRA) on ASS at +00:00:00 (1)" class="even fin"> <TD>1</TD> <TD>(6)</TD> <TD> 300 - STEPHANE PETERHANSEL (FRA)
</TD> <TD> MINI
</TD> <TD>11:10:00</TD> <TD>(6)</TD> <TD>3h52m05s</TD> <TD>3h52m05s</TD> <TD>(1)</TD> <TD>03:52:05</TD> <TD>+00:00:00</TD> <TD>(1)</TD></TR> <TR title="303 CARLOS SAINZ (ESP) on ASS at +00:00:46 (2)" class="odd fin track"> <TD>2</TD> <TD>(5)</TD> <TD> 303 - CARLOS SAINZ (ESP)
</TD> <TD> SMG
</TD> <TD>11:07:00</TD> <TD>(5)</TD> <TD>+00:00:46</TD> <TD>+00:00:46</TD> <TD>(2)</TD> <TD>03:52:51</TD> <TD>+00:00:46</TD> <TD>(2)</TD></TR> <TR title="302 GINIEL DE VILLIERS (ZAF) on ASS at +00:05:34 (3)" class="even fin"> <TD>3</TD> <TD>(16)</TD> <TD> 302 - GINIEL DE VILLIERS (ZAF)
</TD> <TD> TOYOTA
</TD> <TD>11:34:00</TD> <TD>(16)</TD> <TD>+00:05:34</TD> <TD>+00:05:34</TD> <TD>(3)</TD> <TD>03:57:39</TD> <TD>+00:05:34</TD> <TD>(3)</TD></TR> <TR title="304 NANI ROMA (ESP) on ASS at +00:07:25 (4)" class="odd fin"> <TD>4</TD> <TD>(4)</TD> <TD> 304 - NANI ROMA (ESP)
</TD> <TD> MINI
</TD> <TD>11:04:00</TD> <TD>(4)</TD> <TD>+00:07:25</TD> <TD>+00:07:25</TD> <TD>(4)</TD> <TD>03:59:30</TD> <TD>+00:07:25</TD> <TD>(4)</TD></TR> <TR title="301 NASSER AL-ATTIYAH (QAT) on ASS at +00:07:44 (5)" class="even fin"> <TD>5</TD> <TD>(3)</TD> <TD> 301 - NASSER AL-ATTIYAH (QAT)
</TD> <TD> MINI
</TD> <TD>11:01:00</TD> <TD>(3)</TD> <TD>+00:07:44</TD> <TD>+00:07:44</TD> <TD>(5)</TD> <TD>03:59:49</TD> <TD>+00:07:44</TD> <TD>(5)</TD></TR> <TR title="307 ORLANDO TERRANOVA (ARG) on ASS at +00:12:41 (6)" class="odd fin"> <TD>6</TD> <TD>(2)</TD> <TD> 307 - ORLANDO TERRANOVA (ARG)
</TD> <TD> MINI
</TD> <TD>10:58:00</TD> <TD>(2)</TD> <TD>+00:12:41</TD> <TD>+00:12:41</TD> <TD>(6)</TD> <TD>04:04:46</TD> <TD>+00:12:41</TD> <TD>(6)</TD></TR> <TR title="315 CHRISTIAN LAVIEILLE (FRA) on ASS at +00:19:38 (7)" class="even fin"> <TD>7</TD> <TD>(8)</TD> <TD> 315 - CHRISTIAN LAVIEILLE (FRA)
</TD> <TD> HAVAL
</TD> <TD>11:16:00</TD> <TD>(8)</TD> <TD>+00:19:38</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

GO fimp!!!

Metge filed protest against his penalty, and they are checking GPS data.
I thought it to be a fault in paperwork, as far as I understood

Missed the screen cap, tower damamge.....

Salvatierra: blind jump, nothing i could do.... [ass over teakettle]

no damamge to me, and everything works. what could be bad day was good day [otherwise]

GPS and RB worked, most important, on a [bent] bike

Now I'm just waiting on Kevin Muggleton and Peter Hardy.

France 4 said it was nothing serious but they couldn't interview him because he was on the phone talking with his doctor.

'cmon fimpy, you already got run over by a truck, the rest is easy!

Morning bit of catching up to do..looks like another solid effort by #165 Allan Roberts

Patronelli crashed too....

Good to hear. I'd hate to see the rally deprived on an alien on day 2

Alex Doringer (KTM Manager) mentioned in an interview with Darryl Curtis, that 100 KM has been taken out of Stage 3.

Somewhat surprising that the ASO would do this after all the talk about this edition of the Dakar being longer and harder.

Plus, it comes just two days after the a stage which ended up being the first ever with no moto withdrawls (per Bluebull) and only three ended up being very late to the Bivy from what I noticed (Millet and the Escale Bros.).

PAU just showed up on Fox Sports. Had to leave his broken bike and hitch a ride in. He's done.

Crew just sent me this text of David Reeve coming in.

Bummer

Thanks Tony, played fine for me.