Rallye du Maroc 2013

Now that's thrown a spanner in the works all previous day 1 speculation turned upside down :eek1

Top 5 seeds off 11th - 15th.

And 2 min variances down to MC at 15 - then 30 secs !!

Must have been fun at scrutineering

Go Sam Go

LIAISON : 77 KMS – SELECTIVE SECTOR : 203 KMS – LIAISON : 65 KMS​

Sand and dunes await participants at the departure of this first step of Oilibya Rally of Morocco 2013. ​

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For the
first kilometers, crossing of little dunes. Then, a beautiful part of navigation on many parallel tracks allow
them to join the Oued Draa and go in it for several kilometers before hitting the first dunes. Prepare shovels
and plates to cross the splendid erg Cheggaga from southwest to northeast!​

Then​

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, participants will discover a beautiful valley by crossing tracks more or less fast and will find the pass to​

reach the finish. Copilots will have hard job for this first.

thrown all the names in a hat... :huh

Does anyone know how the Baja Route compares to the Rally Route?

Reason I ask is because they (Baja) have already started and appear to be following the main route. Does this mean that there will be tracks for the front runners to follow for the entire stage today? Or, will the Baja group peel off at some point?

Same route today I believe - so tracks for all

Well not long now kids.

Let the game begin.

Then the Leaders will be passing people? The Baja group doesn't look that far along.

Following Sam and Helder could be tricky - they have swopped numbers (Helder didn't want 6 as that was the number he had when he had a bad crash) - only on live tracking it still has Sam as 5 and Helder as 6; but on the results display it is Sam 6 and Helder 5 - terefore not sure on live tracking who is who - other than Helder is off 2 mins before Sam, so we need to see who it shows starting first - Helder or Sam?

- if you know what I mean - but I'm not really sure if I know what I mean

Looks like they are starting near where the baja is finishing. :huh

I believe that they are passing that point and heading to where the Baja Group started.

Doing some googlefu I found this right next to the start for today.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo_expl...hoto_id=63710138&order=date_desc&user=6420252

and the road just after

http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=5041452&with_photo_id=67003299&order=date_desc

I would suggest to read the name and ignore the number as they haven't changed biks, so the tracking will be on the on the bike and therfore the original number

They are all bunched at the start of the special and probably will start any moment.

Tracking

Timing

T minus 9 minutes

That reads "FIRE IN THE HOLE minus 9 minutes" in here. If Troy is awake by now :)

:sip Morning rally maniacs!

Nearly midday here, but morning al the same

T minus....7 mins

I haven't gone to bed yet.....Tomorrow is going to suck.

And the day after ?