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

[garfey]

Not looking good for Si, f5olks.
I'm gonna try the ol' slow clap and hope it's just his tracker that's f5ook'd.







GO PAVEY!!!

[wrk2surf]

Originally Posted by PackMule

If the generic stage map is to be believed, there's a river crossing between wp9 and wp10. Wonder if it's a grade crossing?

Ive seen some facebook photo of them pushing the running bikes through knee deep water like last year... watch out for Peterhansel!

[neduro]

Originally Posted by wrk2surf

after a while the roadbook makes NO sense... I found that out first hand... I cant see them going too far.. then after back tracking they have the danger of running into one another...

That's the function of the WPM and WPS- you recognize that you should be arriving at one by mileage, when it does not pop you know you've gone wrong.

Then, when you do find your way eventually, you can get your odo and roadbook re-sync'd using the WP.

The leaders are really good at spidy-sensing when they are off, I think, by the fact that dangers don't match, and there's usually dangers nearly every KM. That Spidy-sense is what Kurt will be lacking from a lack of miles on roadbooks.

Interesting to see what penalty they give him for missing 7.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, GO LYNDON! PYN it to the rest day!

[drgunther]

France 4 coming up!

[Stagehand]

I just threw 5 euro at Misc as an offering to the rallye gods to open 10.



And also for the awesome work on the site.

[PackMule]

Originally Posted by Martynho

Waiting.....

Are they physically at 10, or watching the tracking like we are?

If it's not just a data issue, an no one is physically at 10 yet, this stage is FUBAR'd.

[HogWild]

Originally Posted by knybanjo

I'm assuming somebody has......for us to get a report of them being off track.

ASO is watching them via the Iritrack trackers, so they know EXACTLY where each rider is all the time.

[Brodovitch]

Question regarding the condition of the course:

Do the ASO have an "out" rider pre run each day & report on the conditions?

[knybanjo]

Originally Posted by HogWild

ASO is watching them via the Iritrack trackers, so they know EXACTLY where each rider is all the time.

Gotcha.

[José Carlos Marques]

Helder Rodrigues started today in 11º overall, 31:32 minutes from the leader. He's 13º at WP9, with a 02:21 disadvantage to the fastest rider. How can he appear in the overall classification at 17º place with 47:39 disadvantage? Did he received any penalty!?!?!?

By the way.... here are some pictures with the sexy side of Dakar. Eheh. http://www.autoportal.iol.pt/desport...-do-dakar-2013

[Dekatria]

You can just go off, cook dinner, eat it, watch the first half hour of a movie, come back, and the trackerlist is still the same.

I know, I just did it.

[Martynho]

Loving Maray`s footie style coverage. Still waiting for news from WP10

[PackMule]

Originally Posted by knybanjo

I wonder if the choppers have been able to see what's going on? I'm assuming somebody has......for us to get a report of them being off track.

If the choppers are grounded, the stage is off re:medical.

[Stagehand]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

Question regarding the condition of the course:

Do the ASO have an "out" rider pre run each day & report on the conditions?

I thought they basically did it the day before? Would probably be at least 12-18 hours between starting the pre-run and the opening of the course?

[Carlos M]

Originally Posted by drgunther

France 4 coming up!

Streaming link, please?

At the pub on a borrowed laptop withut my vlc and myway's precious playlist