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

[doyle]

Originally Posted by Carlos M

13 minutes (due to the 2 min start gap).

My physical place brain waves have not yet sync'd with my timing placement brain waves.

[doyle]

Originally Posted by rickf

How much is a motor change?
If he can earn enough time to pay for a motor change that seems a smart move.

1st motor is a 15 minute penalty.

[Blackhole]

Originally Posted by Jurassic

Don't wanna rain on your parade (I'm cheering Stan on as well) but he's been losing time relatively since WP1 (when he was in 31st and right behind Chris Birch). He's still going well though.

Yep, lost time 10 minutes in last 2 sections. i`m hoping maybe with a change in terrain he`ll get it back.

[dashmoto]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

other way round. Coma started 2 minutes before Cyril

so, 17 minutes

no, thirteen minutes.

If Marc stops for fifteen minutes, and Cyril doesn't appear, he knows he's 15 minutes ahead on the road. If Cyril was matching his pace, he'd be two minutes behind on the road.

[Cummo]

After conceding heaps of time when he got stuck in mud at the beginning of today's stage, Cyril Despres is now losing even more. At CP3, 314 kilometres into the special, the gap between him and Marc Coma has ballooned to 15'49".

Mud caked radiator = hot bike.....

[Lgo175]

Originally Posted by PackMule

patsyquick Patsy Quick



Coma arrived around 15mins before Cyril, didn't say anything but just winked to his mechanic !

That was the best "THANKS" a mechanic can receive....

[PackMule]

Originally Posted by Carlos M

13 minutes (due to the 2 min start gap).

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

other way round. Coma started 2 minutes before Cyril

so, 17 minutes

If Coma spent 15min at the refuel, and Didn't see Cyril, he'd know that he was 13 minutes up (15 min, minus the 2 minutes ahead of Cyril that he started).

[Hayduke]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

Where's Ned?

I don't see him at wp3

yeah, I'm freaking TF out.

[PackMule]

Originally Posted by Cummo

After conceding heaps of time when he got stuck in mud at the beginning of today's stage, Cyril Despres is now losing even more. At CP3, 314 kilometres into the special, the gap between him and Marc Coma has ballooned to 15'49".

Mud caked radiator = hot bike.....

I think it was an African stage, maybe the Western Sahara border crossing, where the liaison was total mud and riders were trying to clean out their radiators before the start of the special. Lot of cooked bikes that day.

[Carlos M]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

other way round. Coma started 2 minutes before Cyril

so, 17 minutes

Which means that after arriving to CP2 and neutralizing, Coma will be looking at his watch for two minutes before finding out if he is making time or losing time to Despres. When he takes off 15 minutes after that (end of neutralization) he knows he has made 13 minutes on Despres.

I maybe wrong, already caused a timewarp today

[Brodovitch]

Originally Posted by PackMule

If Coma spent 15min at the refuel, and Didn't see Cyril, he'd know that he was 13 minutes up (15 min, minus the 2 minutes ahead of Cyril that he started).

Damn wasn't paying attention, I thought you were discussing how far in front

Glad Troy isn't here to slap me with a penalty

[Jurassic]

Originally Posted by PackMule

patsyquick Patsy Quick



Coma arrived around 15mins before Cyril, didn't say anything but just winked to his mechanic !

Maybe the mustachioed man was deployed last night with a shovel and lots of buckets of water?

[Brodovitch]

WP7, Cyril +15:41

[Cuttle]

I had to skip a few pages catching up (sorry), so if this was already posted let me know and I'll take it down:


Dakar 2012, A Night In The Dunes...



aso will find it soon anyway

[Mad Cow]

Ned passed CP2 in 82nd

So far 94 riders through WP3

So that's a little worrying