Oillibya Rally Maroc 2012

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by Flood

Meanwhile Darryl Curtis is busy getting lost in the tracks around CP1.

He might head off to do another lap?

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

Like Troy said, timing cards were probably changing hands faster than the tyres at an F1 pitstop...

They will go back through those carefully, to see that the actual arrivals and data entry times are correct... in a rugby scrum finish like that, it is easy for some mix ups to occur.

[Flood]

Originally Posted by troy safari carpente

He might head off to do another lap?

And then there's Jacobus Potgieter hopelessly lost between CP1 and 2:

[Brodovitch]

Most of the front runners heading up the liaison to the bivouac, Cyril a bit further behind, may have stopped to film his daily "video de l'amitié"

[Flood]

At least he's not alone. Nicholas Chiche is with him:

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

Most of the front runners heading up the liaison to the bivouac, Cyril a bit further behind, may have stopped to film his daily "video de l'amitié"

"Allo allo... e nice day in ze desert again at le Rallye Maroc'...
todaay it was good...
I ride from behind, navigate a good way...
and show ze' f$ckers ou ees boss again...no...?!"

[ArthDuro]

What a cluster f#$£
and I thought I knew what was happening when I left for work...

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by ArthDuro

What a cluster f#

Back to the days of the "land rush" en masse starts...

[ArthDuro]

Hehe indeed I scanned quickly for order and didnt see the mess that the times were. Good thing I didn't tweet any finish reports hehe

[Brodovitch]

Originally Posted by troy safari carpente

and show ze' f$ckers ou ees boss again...no...?!"

[Flood]

Now JC's time card is screwing up the posis..

EDIT: fixed, in 17th, +37 minutes.

[Brodovitch]

So the overall looks something like this after today:

1 Cyril Despres KTM 13:11:54
2 Joan Barreda Husqvarna 00:17:59
3 Frans Verhoeven Yamaha 00:30:44
4 Olivier Pain Yamaha 00:32:13
5 Felipe Zanol Honda 00:33:21
6 Chaleco López KTM 00:36:04
7 Sam Sunderland Honda 00:47:21
8 Paulo Gonçalves Husqvarna 00:47:43
9 Kuba Przygonski KTM 00:48:12
10 Mattew Fish Husqvarna 00:53:39
11 Joan Pedrero KTM 00:54:48
12 Alessandro Botturi KTM 01:11:13

[Balkan Boy]

For the record, Barreda made up around 3 minutes (he lost more when he backtracked in the dunes) by following the hard charges towards the end of the stage.

[Brodovitch]

Originally Posted by Flood

At least he's not alone. Nicholas Chiche is with him:

They better scramble a chopper for those two... they keep heading north away from the track

[Flood]

Yes, it's painful to watch them.

There's also Lunot, who missed the whole Erg and almost made it to CP2...the wrong way.