Dakar 2011 - Official Event Coverage - THANK YOU all Posters and Lurkers!

[PackMule]

Tamsin Jones gets our 2011 Dakar coverage kicked off with a call on the progress of Craig Bounds. Through scrutineering, they are looking forward to the official briefing and kickoff tomorrow.





Direct Download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/rallyraidio/11D01.mp3

[Flood]

Originally Posted by quinnman

What are the offcial vehcles in the pictures? They look like a landcrusier but have diffrent front ends. Any thoughts or inside information???

Those are Heavy Duty (HZJ) Landcruisers.

[Carlos M]

Happy New Year YouFF5F!!

[Yamezz]

Originally Posted by Bluebull2007

And Tom Cruise on the left

[Flood]

Originally Posted by Carlos M

Happy New Year YouFF5F!!

I'll raise a glass to you all!

[mototifosi]

On the "Official Dakar Site" Jonah is the only entrant of 186 (bikes) to be listed as riding an "X" ! He will surely be the "X" factor this year but found it funny they didn't have him listed as being on a Yamaha. He evidently needs bigger letters on his shirt!All the other riders "marques" are listed....

[PackMule]

Originally Posted by Carlos M

Happy New Year YouFF5F!!

Same to you guys!

[desert rider]

Originally Posted by Flood

Those are Heavy Duty (HZJ) Landcruisers.

Yep HZJ Cruisers , every second person here in Australia has one you dont really want to go into the outback here without one, bloody unstopable

[adrien mototribu]

Dakar 2011

pics of the 2011 recos + 2011 KTM Team and new hi res pics from 2010 (Maindru)

[Bluebull2007]

Happy new year to you all.


I thought this was an interesting comment. Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade, but that might also be equally applicable to Cody.

Originally Posted by pete40

Our young Jacob Smith would do well to take note of the following.......

Cyril Despres of Andorra first competed in the Dakar in 2000 and finished 16th overall and second in his category. In 2001 he finished 12th and won his first stage victory. In 2003, he won three specials and finished second. He also won the Rally World Championship. In 2005, he scored his first outright victory in the Dakar on a factory KTM.

That's right - 6 years to finally crack it.

[Bluebull2007]

Originally Posted by adrien mototribu

Dakar 2011

pics of the 2011 recos + 2011 KTM Team and new hi res pics from 2010 (Maindru)

Something wrong with the links?

[brents347]

Originally Posted by Bluebull2007

Happy new year to you all.


I thought this was an interesting comment. Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade, but that might also be equally applicable to Cody.

Using this progressive ladder system, this should be Jonah's year to win about 3 stages and finish on the podium. I can't wait!

[mgorman]

Originally Posted by mototifosi

On the "Official Dakar Site" Jonah is the only entrant of 186 (bikes) to be listed as riding an "X" ! He will surely be the "X" factor this year but found it funny they didn't have him listed as being on a Yamaha. He evidently needs bigger letters on his shirt!All the other riders "marques" are listed....

Could be Yamaha didn't kick in any money or support and the bike was chosen for other reasons and they left the brand blank to eliminate credit. I've heard of that being the case in other moto races, especially with privateers but he has Yamaha stickers on the beast.

I could also be that someone just plain screwed up

[Velociraptor]

Could be that the info was so far in advance that Street may not have found a ride at the time? At any rate, I'll be cheering for him! Just watched Race to Dakar and am so psyched!!

[doyle]

From dakar.com

Street just in time....

American Jonah Street had a nasty surprise on arrival in Buenos Aires, when he found out that a significant part of his equipment, including his tyres, was still held up by the Argentine customs. The Californian biker, 7th in the 2010 edition, was finally able to retrieve his belongings yesterday at the end of the morning; not ideal preparation when aiming for a place on the podium. “It’s all the more annoying since the equipment arrived in Argentina two weeks ago,” he says, “and that the person her who was supposed to collect it didn’t do it…” Street will thus be able to fit his new Yamaha with new tyres for its presentation on the podium today.