Dakar 2013 - Official Event Coverage - thank you ALL TeamF5, lurkers and posters!

Do we have a competition for guessing the final page no that this thread will produce ?

Will we see 800 pages ?

Forty five kilometres after the start of the special stage, Juan Pedrero Garcia, second in the Dakar 2013 on completion of the second stage, is having problems. He has been at a standstill for several minutes, most likely to deal with a technical problem.
dakar.com

i think they are lost????

just tweeted them. yeah, I know, as if....

Cancel meeting, order a sandwich and coffee.

This is important man

Possible fuck up with wp1 and GPS units?

Troy's right - ASOles - couldn't organise a root in a brothel

WP1 and WP2 just went live

He will have likely already hit the road to tonight's bivy

You just did

the riders showing at WP2 are unexpected??

WPs don't need to be manned, positions should be relayed automatically.

Whoa huge shake up at WP2

Strange
Rios
Berglund
Campbell...

:huh

Troy I think you should cancel, today looks promising

Good Morning!

Bluebull, do you ever sleep? Thanks for the stage update.

I am gutted for Don. Hit by truck, no navigation in the dark with those dunes, broken bike, and still trying to complete the stage = Awesome Effort.

GO PYNDON!

Every year we see this.

And every year, they never do anything about it.


Ferchrissakes, will you ASOles learn for once, and just hire your tracking crew from F5?

Knowledge, passion, and the motivation that the F5irehose gang will tear them a new one if they screw it up.



"We run the toughest race of the year. We run the Tour. We know better than just some misguided fans."

Yeah, I can hear them thinking that. But it is the fool that thinks he knows everything. As has been noted by current and past competitors and team members, this bunch knows more about the race than the folks in the biv do. They're wired in, for the simple love of it.

So, use that to your advantage, Etienne. Remember: These are the people that the sponsors are paying to reach, the customers, the end users of their product. Make it work you, instead of frustrating those fans, put them to work.



Yeah, I know, no way in hell they'll do anything about it. But I gotta try, maybe one day the windmill will tilt.

6 guys at WP2 and only 3 at WP1 !!!

what a mix up......