Okay thanks everyone for your entries. The competition is now closed. I'll list the winners here on Jan 19th.!!!
Summary of predictions. 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Congrats to the winners... My second favorite pair was Barreda-Viladoms. I was convinced Barreda would make the podium. So many races lost in the last corner, this feels like it...
The judges have adjudicated and BELOW are the results for the advrider, 2014 Dakar Dream Racer competition. Once again, many thanks to Christophe Barrier-Varju for kindly donating 10 DVD to the winners. Thank you everyone who entered! We have 3 that got 1st Prize, correctly guessing both 2nd & 3rd positions. They are: Country Doc Uller elron Congratulations! That's 3/10 DVD's, 7 to go. Then we said if there are any left over, the first correct answers to Q1 will also recieve a DVD. Well, unfortunately there were more than 7 who got this right, so we took the 1st seven (i.e. the guys who guessed correctly, earliest) So the winners are those in order of entry: 1 hexaroot 2 fetid_swamp 3 Desert Matt 4 DaCat 5 Night Falcon 6 boundarybasher and 7 Quietus Congratulations as well! Winners - To claim your prize: Private message me the following: Your full name, delivery address, your email address and whether you want the DVD in PAL or NTSC format. I'm not going to chase you, if you don't contact me to claim your prize in 5 days, the runners up will be contacted in the order listed below to get yours. Runners up are: 8 pebble35 9 guymanbro 10 Hohmie and 11 WIsixfitty Well done! Close, but no cigar. I'll be contacting you if anyone does not claim their prize. Runners up guessing either of 2nd or 3rd places are matheas Dread Pendragon Vicks enookway halfFastMoto TobyG sick_boy Myway Carlos M mrxinpa Well done you guys too! Better than I would have guessed anyway! : Once again thanks for entering, its been a blast! If you did not win and still would like to get your own copy of the Dream Racer Dakar movie, please checkout www.dreamracer.tv to order.
Gents, Thank you to all that have played in the Dream Racer giveaway competition. We will do this again next year Congratulations to all the winners, when I say that you are going to love Dream Racer it is an understatement. It's not what you expect, it is much much more -- and that's why this film has taken so long to be put together and has won so many awards -- the latest is the Mention d'Honneur in Milan in early December competing against the best Sports Film Documentaries across 5 continents. You don't need to be a bloke and ride a motorbike to understand what Dream Racer is about For those that have missed out, I wouldn't wait for next year if I were you, it is that good Dream Racer is only a few clicks away. Thank you once again to BlueBull for making this happen. Hasta for now...
Oohhh. I'm so close to a top 10 finish. . . If two of the other guys have a mechanical in the next 5 days, I just might make it. Don't wad the bike. Don't wad the bike. Don't wad the bike. Ah, fack it, just goooooooo!
Christophe thank you so much for doing this and also a big thanks for Neil for putting it together! I have been wanting to see your movie for some time now and didn't realize it was available to purchase yet. To say I am excited to see it, is an understatement.
Congratulations everyone! - I didn't see that coming (and held my faith in Despres)... although based on Barreda's performance all through the rally, I guess it was inevitable really... I shall buy one of the DVDs anyway - it looks fantastic Christophe! Jx
Congratulations to the winners and a big "Thank you!" to CVBRacing and Bluebull! I was somehow hoping BamBam would actually end the Dakar on the podium, that'd have been hilarious, after 2 weeks of kamikaze style riding
so, too-old's link to betting sites cost me some $$ but i've got a dvd coming my way. its dakar, even when you lose you can win. ha thanks all.
Thanks Bluebull and CBV for organizing the contest. It is a good reminder that I shouldn't risk one cent in betting sites!! Placed an order on http://dreamracer.tv/ for a Blue-Ray.