Oillibya Rally Maroc 2012

[Carlos M]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

Helder also slower than Marc at CP2...

the old fox

We'll see what Barreda managed in a few minutes. The universe is in order. Coma opening the track and going faster.

[Bluebull2007]

Coma is on the move again, I guess they had a neutralization stop at CP2.

[Flood]

No sign of poor old Casteu? Let's hope his Iritrack is broken.

[Bluebull2007]

Originally Posted by Flood

No sign of poor old Casteu? Let's hope his Iritrack is broken.

Both him and Stan Watt. I don't get it because neither of them are on the satellite either. I guess their's are broken.

[rmhrc628]

Is today's 270 km stage classified as a sprint in rallye speak?

[Deadly99]

Originally Posted by rmhrc628

Is today's 270 km stage classified as a sprint in rallye speak?

Nope

[Carlos M]

Originally Posted by rmhrc628

Is today's 270 km stage classified as a sprint in rallye speak?

I guess it's standard for the Morocco Rally.

Dakar's stage Rachidia-Ouarzazate used to start close to here and pass some of these tracks/erg . It was almost 600 km long but only about 300 would be Special Stage.

[Deadly99]

Goncalves with a VERY respectful time at cp3

[Flood]

Goncalves, Pain, Barreda, Chaleco are sitting at CP2, waiiiiting for the times.

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by Deadly99

Conclaves with a VERY respectful time at cp3

if he's at CP3 already, the respect is due to the helicopter pilot

[Bluebull2007]

Coma made up no less than 4 minutes on Despres between CP1 & 2.

He might have gone due east through the erg instead of south first, back north and then east. The question is: How did the other guys not see his track? Or maybe he missed a WP?

Im curious to see Pryzgonsky's time because I got the feeling he also cut straight across. So did lots of folks blunder after Rodrigues and Despres tracks or was it a WP... the jury is out on that I guess.

Here you can see all the guys cutting the corner more and more. The first few guys after Coma were in the dunes on the bottom center.

[Sylvia]

Evening all.

[Carlos M]

Johny Campbell was 18th at CP1. The man can still ride :) we may remember Erg Chebbi from his 2001 Dakar experience. He crossed it on the opposite direction then (West to East).

[Bluebull2007]

Originally Posted by troy safari carpente

if he's at CP3 already, the respect is due to the helicopter pilot

He lost 9:15 on the leader between Cp1 and Cp2 so that stoppage in the dunes must have been a mare, I guess he got lost.

I always feel sorry for this guy because he always ends up on the wrong route or in the mud or something. And Cyril never helps him.

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by Bluebull2007

Coma made up no less than 4 minutes on Despres between CP1 & 2.

He might have gone due east through the erg instead of south first, back north and then east. The question is: How did the other guys not see his track? Or maybe he missed a WP?

There are soooooo many teams testing, tours and general traffic around the Erg chebbi... the ground is "littered" with tracks criss crossing everywhere.

I was actually prompted to poise the question earlier, just how detailed the roadbook for this part of the SS is... or primarily WPS waypoints...? if go zoom right in, you can see that in places it is just a labyrinth of converging tracks and trails... easy to jump on the wrong one... even if you ICO is off by only a hundred meters or so...

I think thats why there are so many different "trajectories" on the tracker... and explain the slightly different entrance into the dune pass earlier.