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

[Flood]

Originally Posted by tehdutchie

I still wonder why they both got a 15min penalty for swapping engines between riders that are still in the race. Should be allowed IMHO.

I'm pushing for this rule in 2014 and will enter myself, sporting a fancy new bike, probably a side car in which I'll stock some spare 450 engines. ;)

Credit cards taken on the course ;)

My 2014 Cyril enginecarrier clay model prototype:

[rallyhound]

Originally Posted by Drif10

I just saw something that said the ceremony isn't until tomorrow?

Talk about anti-climactic.

Anyone confirm?

Can't start the ceromny till Luis gets there

[drgunther]

Originally Posted by Jurassic

Yeah, I thought so as well. That's why they used it and not one from a factory bike (who were all on the originals at that point)?

I'm guessing that giving Dabrowski the engine with the broken gearbox was a sacrifice that everyone was will to make. He said himself that he wasn't running the Dakar for results anymore since his shoulder had started to act up.

Originally Posted by Carlos M

Dabrowski is showing 60' penalties, I think it's two engines for him and Despres's original is already in the KTM truck shelf.

Yup, the way I see it the following happened:
1) Dabrowski and CDP swap engines during the marathon giving them both a 15 minute penalty.
2) The day after the marathons Dabrowski swaps out the broken egine he got from CDP the day before for a new one (one of his own or a donor engine from the KTM factory - I don't know) and receives another 45 minutes totalling 60 minutes for Dabrowski.

Had Dabrowski changed his engine before the marathon stage he would either still be running on the broken gearbox (since he is listed with 60 minutes penalty) or he should be listed with atleast 120 minutes penalty for that third engine change.

[tehdutchie]

Originally Posted by too old

Don't forget the jerry cans with the gas for Helder

Good call :)

[Drif10]

Originally Posted by rallyhound

Can't start the ceromny till Luis gets there

[Flood]

Today's live show is on ES2!


@carltonkirby
Last live show of Dakar 2013 starts uk 5:45pm E2 (18:45cet)... Stage highlights 11pm uk /Midnight cet..... ish!

[too old]

Originally Posted by Flood

My 2014 Cyril enginecarrier clay model prototype:

How long did it take to find that

[Lupine128]

Is it scary or awesome that Luis is through WP1 faster than shoestring manny?

[tehdutchie]

Originally Posted by Flood

My 2014 Cyril enginecarrier clay model prototype:

I'll stock a husky/BMW one too, just because I like butorri 's effort this year!

[Dread Pendragon]

Originally Posted by rallyhound

Can't start the ceromny till Luis gets there

[garfey]

Originally Posted by cyborg

GO LUIS!!!!

Is Boundsy in trouble???

[Lgo175]

Originally Posted by Flood

My 2014 Cyril enginecarrier clay model prototype:

Outstanding....

[JMo (& piglet)]

Originally Posted by rallyhound

Can't start the ceromny till Luis gets there

Ha ha - good gag!

Jx

[troy safari carpente]

Originally Posted by too old

As we are big on rumour and tactics, I believe Chaleco had his mechanic drop the engine off the bike, turned the music up loud, took a load of pictures, made a post on Facebook and then put the same engine back again.

He is now 1 second behind CDP

This is not entirely unplausible... and the only other explanation other than the fact that the results team just have not assesed/factored the (reputed) 15 minute engine exchange penalty for Chaleco...

But you can bet that KTM management want (should) know what the real deal is... cause going into a final 17 km selective with a one second advantage is not something that's happened before...

How long (for those who have a handle on the live time frame) until they make the end of the nutralized zone... and resume the second timed sector?

According to the live passage times, Chaleco is physically first on road about 10 minutes ahead (real time) of despres physically on course?

[K_N_Fodder]

Originally Posted by too old

It was all that effort on that post yesterday

Ha... after a January of 6 - 6.5 hrs of sleep per night it was very tempting to get some payback this Saturday morning. Following from PST kind of sucks, much easier when I was in Austin, TX in CST