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

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The thing is you have to pull the 1:h 20m to create a comparable scratch result for all the field (as on the nutralisation if you arrive and pass the end control zone you are penalized early... but if you arrive late, you are on your own time). It looks "wierd" on the spreadsheet, but it's accurate as far as determining the rankings.

Ok, I made it back to the bivvy...my brother decided to call and I couldn't ditch him, even after boring him with tales of fesh fesh and broken wheels....don't think he understood I was missing important stuff!!!

RallyRAIDio GIF of the day: Lyndon Poskitt, who else?!

And we love you for it, Mischa.

I'm curious, why don't the big bike teams enter cars or trucks into the racing classes (ie #3xx, #4xx, #5xx vehicles) to lend support for mechanicals?

Am I wrong in remembering that this was the original purpose of the cars/trucks classes?

Is it only because of the start time gap between the front bikes and the following cars, that is, that by the time the cars reached them they'd be out of contention? Seems like you could do a chain: team "captain" squares a wheel, swaps rims with water carrier, water carrier waits for fresh wheel off the back of the car. That way the captain doesn't lose all the time to wait for the car, and the water carrier doesn't lose as much time as they would trying to ride in on a squared wheel.

And for that matter, same question for the cars teams, why don't e.g. Robby or Nasser have "garbage trucks" puppydogging them across SA?

VLC player pause is awsome!!

Hit pause on my way out to work, and a couple hours later, resume no problem! Hate to think what it's doing to my system memory, but who cares!

Ok well on monitor.trackingdakar.nl it looks a bit weird. You see someone arrive with 1h20 to much. As soon as he appears on live timing the 1h20 is gone again. That's why I first thought I made some mistake, but I guess I'm just going to ignore it ;-)

Can VLC play it?

Thanks Flood!

You have to install an app to convert it to mp4..or watch in vlc player

I just converted a .ts file to .avi using handbrake.

Just finally got done watching the video compilation for the day...gut wrenching to watch those guys have to have there bikes hauled away...and the guy who finally got his going!! good for him...hope he made it in today

@ misca and others

I tried to give in these number
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Code:

http://www.trackingdakar.com/index.php?track=48,67,69,85,93,98,105,107,122,127,132,143,147,175

hoping all these riders are orange, and i can see all of them if they the are not withdrawn.

So that i can save the link and use it the next time.
Last year i did it to and worked well

This year i can not get it done.
And then i changed from stage pos to stage hours the rderslist is gone and i have suddenly a country list of riders.
i did ctrl f5, to delete memory,

tried t find out who the malle moto guys are and riding

Nice!!