Dakar 2007

[thedon]

The 2007 Dakar Race started today.
Here is some links for the info on it.
http://www.dakar.com/2007/DAK/LIVE/us/-10700/index.html
http://www.marathonrally.com/news/index.3025.0.html
http://www.robbygordon.com/cms/publi...index_60.shtml

http://www.raid-live.com/dakar/en/index.shtml

[KiGrind]

What is it? I know its a race but... I see like a 6x6 mini van on the front page.

[crashnzuk]

Is there tv coverage this year?
Travis..

[efuentes]

Down in mexico its covered by Fox Sport international, maybe in the states also.

There is always .torrent

[bike guy]

Originally Posted by KiGrind

What is it? I know its a race but... I see like a 6x6 mini van on the front page.

Dakar as in "Paris-Dakar". thats Paris, France and Dakar, Africa. Dakar is the capital city of Senegal and is also the westernmost city in Africa. France was the original starting place back in 78, however the starting place changes from year to year. this year the start is in Portugal. It journey's through other nearby countries, across the Sahara desert, and through many different parts of Africa and ends in Dakar. we're talking lions and tigers and bears!

dude, that's not a minivan, that is a truck that is larger than the size of a Unimog. the tires are at least 53" tall if that gives you any idea as to scale. FYI, in europe they race big rigs (without the trailers of course) on road racing tracks. its the most amazing thing.

thank you thedon for the thread. i always miss this damn thing. what a kick ass race the Dakar is. its like the baja multiplied by 100!

[Blazerman1]

Originally Posted by crashnzuk

Is there tv coverage this year?
Travis..

The race is on versus netwok, use to be OLN.

http://www.versus.com/nw/article/mdv...0DAKAR%20RALLY

[thedon]

Here is some more links.

http://dakar-rally.hit.bg/trucks.htm
http://www.loprais.cz/fotogalerie_en.php

There is 525 teams racing this year.
The race is from the 6th to the 20th of January.

[bike guy]

says alot about Robby Gordon that he's over there doing the Dakar. talk about honing your skills in the off season.

[xsintrick1]

G R E A T Links !!!!!!!!
Thanks a million To (TheDon)
Randy

Originally Posted by bike guy

says alot about Robby Gordon that he's over there doing the Dakar. talk about honing your skills in the off season.

[aloharover]

Originally Posted by Blazerman1

The race is on versus netwok, use to be OLN.

http://www.versus.com/nw/article/mdv...0DAKAR%20RALLY

Weird thing is, yesterday even though the web said Dakar, the TV listings were showing Basketball.

[desertbull]

Yep, and a professional rockcrawler-okay he's a spotter,is the driver of record in the Dakar Rally...catch up boyz there's a lot of coverage going about Dakar...the longest staged desert race in the world.

Tom is Driver of Record of the 556 MAN Truck that is racing in the truck class and is supporting the MONSTER Energy car of Robby G.

Here's a feature on Tom G., Jon Nelson's spotter---
http://www.dirtnewz.com/dr-pressrele...12-16-06.shtml

and here's the link to Dakar Coverage where we have 3 embedded reporters with teams in Africa. Enjoy...

http://www.dirtnewz.com/index.shtml

[Ben W]

Originally Posted by aloharover

Weird thing is, yesterday even though the web said Dakar, the TV listings were showing Basketball.

The web lists eastern times so you have to adjust for your timezone. It is on Vs. right now (dish network ch 151).

[rgivenspi]

Thanks for the links - no race compares to the Dakar Rally - 5,000 miles normally I think.

Stewart

[nasnut67]

Dakar is one of the biggest races to win.

[bike guy]

saw yesterday's coverage on vs and those big trucks really steal the show. the motos and the cars are all well and fine, but thos big ass trucks are really something to see blasting across all that rough terrain and deep sand. its definitely a lot more different than the terrain in Baja. deeper sand, deeper mud.......

why didn't Robby G run all wheel drive? what were they thinking? they lost so much time being stuck.

[B3nMJ]

did anyone see that show that has that guy charlie bowman or something like that raceing the dakar. This might be from lastyear however.

He did that show with ewin mcgregor "long way around" where they road there motorbikes around the world.

lots of good coverage of the dakar, and kind of a personal storey of just how hard this race is.

i would put this race ahead of anything baja, or what have you. Simple amazing what these guys put them selfs threw.

anywho up here its on OLN.

[byen00]

There's a "Robby Gordon Motorsports" video-blog here:

http://robby-gordon.blogspot.com/
[ click on upper-right icon to subscribe to the "Robby Gordon" video-podcast ]

You can subscribe to the video-podcast (via iTunes), download the daily update videos to your video-iPod, carry it around & show to people.

There's a perception problem with Dakar to avg Americans (Robby mentioned it in one of the videos), so it's a great PR tool for Dakar & RGM.

[XJUSA]

Here's a link to eurosports.com.

http://www.eurosport.com/rallyraid/dakar/2007/

[GiS]

Saw that Robby G flopped over yesterday

[bike guy]

was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who had been to dakar (to work it) in the early 80's and the first strong words that came out of his mouth when i mentioned it were, "its a mans race"!

i just wish they were showning it later in the evening like 7 or 8 so it were a little easier (schedule wise) to watch. who can get off work at 2:30-3:00pm to come home and watch it at 3:30? unless you're unemployed like i am?

[Rastus]

Popular South African off-road bike racer Elmer Symons has been killed in a crash during stage four of the of the Dakar Rally in Morocco.

Symons was born in Ladysmith and matriculated at Ladysmith High School in 1994. He had since been racing in the US where he picked up several race titles, including the Best in the Desert Series - held over seven stages in Nevada - in 2006. He was to have returned to South Africa in 2008 to race for the KTM South Africa team.


full story here

RIP Elmer

[crashnzuk]

Wow, what is it with the motorcycle guys crashing out the last few years. Last year there were 2 if I'm not mistaken. On a different note, I long for the days of the old Speedvision coverage. A whole hour a day. The Speed and OLN/VS coverage leaves alot to be desired. At least this year they aren't fixated on the Americans, and have a commentator that can pronounce the names. I'll be interested to see if that asshat Gordon finishes this year. Ok, enough venting.
Travis..

[GoodTimes]

Gordon is an incredible racer. One of my favorites. He can race anything, and do very well. He has a unique racing style. He races to win, nothing else. He's not there for second, third, or the finish. First or nothing. He runs the shit out of those cars. It makes for some great competition, and great racing.

[crashnzuk]

I never said he wasn't a great racer, I just don't like his attitude. Not a very good sport.
Travis..

[2Dogs]

Originally Posted by crashnzuk

I never said he wasn't a great racer, I just don't like his attitude. Not a very good sport.
Travis..

Tons of excuses also. I was disgusted with him and his first performance at this race - overdrove/rolled his VW then pissed and moaned when he had to help his teammate.... Talented but BAD attitude.