HOME BUILT???? Are you smoking crack??? You can't be serious saying that Robby's shop is anything but a top notch professional race shop. The amount of research and development money put into Robby's Hummmmmbuggys by General Motors was HUGE. Dyno time dealing with restricted intakes and and as previously discussed, wind tunnel time alone puts him well above home built budgets. Schlesser was much more of a home build than Robby ever was. JLS's first buggies were designed and built here in America and he re-badged them and later he simply copied previous designs. BMW blew the whistle on Robby's illegal intake manifold, it was not the ASO that finally decided to go after him. And as much as Robby cried about how he had been using it without complaint in previous years, having a port of any kind between the restrictor and the engine has always been illegal. Robby knew that BMW would wait until he was considered to be a real threat before they protested, he simply thought he would be able to beat the protest.
Dude, that goes both ways. Its a big world out there. You are not the center of it. On with the racing.
Didn't Nasser also bend the rear frame in the early stages, throwing off the alignment of the belt that kept burning up/falling off? Nasser is one helluva a fast driver, but needs a factory team support to fix all his stuff, it seems.
It was ASO who failed to DQ Peterhansel for running into a bike in the creek last year, clearly an offense. ASO also gave Despres time back for the mud gate obstacle, giving the Frenchman an advantage over the Spaniard. In my book, if you are making your own vehicles... it's home built, no matter how big your home is or tools owned. Otherwise, it's just pissing in the wind in your own pissing contest.
Caption Contest . "You throw one more belt , I will let you loose in Alabama wearing only a rainbow Speedo , do you understand ?"
Then you can call all Minis and BMWs Sven Quandt's home built cars. X-Raid is NOT a factory team like Mitsubishi or VW were.
That's just Strong Bad! Some of us have been following Dakar since it's origin. If you're going to bring up Schlesser then we really can start talking about cheating, although I did love his effort. Just as we do RG's effort. Don't be a RG hater Bro...just harshes my mellow!
Robby's dad "Baja Bob" drove it the rest of the rally spectating with out any problems. Seems as the Speed team didn't have a trailer to put it on and it had to be driven all the way to the finish.
Sorry man, I guess my humor is just too dry; I'm just joking around I guess the self deprecation about the USA being a colony didn't fully convey that. Nice piece of trivia, thanks!
personaly I think the real rivalry this race is between RG and Nasser...not RG and Stephane. Just saying Nasser is one fast driver Rumor in the biv last year was Nasser was kicked out of the teams camp a stage or two before he dnf'd is RG being a bit of a control freak...is this what prevents being on top of the podium?
I agree, pretty much about epic, get to go pretty much anywhere you want and no pressure of beating the next guy.
Not lost, just expressing an OPINION, a view of how something strikes me, and the whole Hummer branding thing struck me as a misfire. You got a lot of emotion wrapped up in this...
I did realize the example I cited hails from France, but IIRC RG's antagonists weren't all French. Nani Roma comes to mind, but it's been a while.
