2013 Dakar Cliff Notes thread

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Boundsy!

@CraigBoundsDak
Short special, lots of big dunes and drop offs. Riders stuck already. Took it easy, long way to go. Gonna eat, do roadbook, bike and sleep

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Originally Posted by Stagehand

Speedbrain: Unofficial result of the first special stage (13km): 10. Joan, 11. Alessandro, 13. Paulo, 45. Matt

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Jimmy Lewis checking in:

Originally Posted by J Lewis

Just to weigh in from experience:
The Prologue means nothing in time, even with small multiplication factors. It is more of a game to set position on course for tomorrow and then try and make up free time based on a start position. Then again, I think they are starting in waves so that may lessen that factor even more. I'ts a long race but you hate to see someone open up a big gap because then they just play follow the guy in second place as not to lose time.

But what do I know? I liked starting in waves though!

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Originally Posted by Bluebull2007

I just spoke to Brett Cummings he sounded a little disapoointed in the his result but stoked for Riaans performance. I guess the soft sand of Peru and the excitement of being in the biggest race on the planet had something to do with it.

The guys are resting and re hydrating. Tomrrow is going to be the first tough day.

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@PLANETROBBY

Robby Gordon was stopped at KM4 for about 9 minutes. Shows him back moving

@RallyRAIDio

...and @RobbyGordon finishes SS1, 10'35" behind the leader Sainz! Something went very wrong here..

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With 50 cars in, Sainz wins SS1 ahead of Argentinian Àlvarez and team mate Al-Attiyah.

Due to the x3 time factor for the cars in the prologue, Robbie Gordon is already half an hour behind in the general classification.

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TIME - Bikes - ASS - stage 1 - sector 2

Pos.	N°	Name	Hours	Time	variation
1	7	LOPEZ Francisco (CHL)	13:52:21	00:07:51	-
2	15	VERHOEVEN Frans (NLD)	13:39:22	00:07:52	00:00:01
3	183	QUINTANILLA Pablo (CHL)	12:47:26	00:07:56	00:00:05
4	160	CABRERA Patricio (CHL)	12:53:02	00:08:02	00:00:11
5	1	DESPRES Cyril (FRA)	14:02:34	00:08:04	00:00:13
6	10	CASTEU David (FRA)	13:46:36	00:08:06	00:00:15
7	11	FARIA Ruben (PRT)	13:44:40	00:08:10	00:00:19
8	30	PIZZOLITO Javier (ARG)	13:27:42	00:08:12	00:00:21
9	8	ULLEVALSETER Pal Anders (NOR)	13:50:47	00:08:17	00:00:26
11	17	BOTTURI ALESSANDRO (ITA)	13:38:50	00:08:20	00:00:29
10	5	BARREDA BORT Joan (ESP)	13:56:50	00:08:20	00:00:29
12	18	PRZYGONSKI Jakub (POL)	13:37:51	00:08:21	00:00:30
13	26	GOUËT Daniel (CHL)	13:31:53	00:08:23	00:00:32
14	20	GONÇALVES Paulo (PRT)	13:35:53	00:08:23	00:00:32
15	40	VAN NIEKERK Riaan (ZAF)	13:21:24	00:08:24	00:00:33
16	6	SVITKO Stefan (SVK)	13:54:55	00:08:25	00:00:34
17	45	RODRIGUEZ Claudio (CHL)	13:20:27	00:08:27	00:00:36
18	27	KNUIMAN Henk (NLD)	13:31:01	00:08:31	00:00:40
19	14	DUCLOS Alain (FRA)	13:41:02	00:08:32	00:00:41
20	34	METGE Michael (FRA)	13:24:03	00:08:33	00:00:42

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TIME - Cars - ASS - stage 1 - sector 2

Pos.	N°	Name	Hours	Time	variation
1	303	SAINZ Carlos (ESP)	14:23:40	00:07:40	-
2	306	ÁLVAREZ Lucio Ezequiel (ARG)	14:29:48	00:07:48	00:00:08
4	300	AL-ATTIYAH Nasser (QAT)	14:14:50	00:07:50	00:00:10
3	309	CHICHERIT Guerlain (FRA)	14:38:50	00:07:50	00:00:10
5	316	CHABOT Ronan (FRA)	14:47:52	00:07:52	00:00:12
8	307	NOVISTKIY Leonid (RUS)	14:33:14	00:08:14	00:00:34
6	302	PETERHANSEL Stéphane (FRA)	14:21:14	00:08:14	00:00:34
7	310	HOLOWCZYC Krzysztof (POL)	14:42:14	00:08:14	00:00:34
9	301	DE VILLIERS Giniel (ZAF)	14:18:15	00:08:15	00:00:35
10	305	ROMA Joan (Nani) (ESP)	14:27:17	00:08:17	00:00:37

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@PLANETROBBY

So we are hearing a possible gearbox issue is what might have caused the delay for Robby Gordon. Unofficial. Unconfirmed.

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Originally Posted by Flood

The 2013 Dakar gets underway with a short 13 kilometre prologue south of Lima. Victory on the stage went to ‘Chaleco’ Lopez ahead of Frans Verhoeven. Cyril Despres (KTM Redbull) finished 5th with his team mate Ruben Faria just behind in 7th.



Cyril Despres



Today’s stage was like a long prologue, designed to decide the start order for tomorrow’s special, and as always there was a certain amount of tactical riding. Just to make it a bit more complicated the organisers gave the stage a ‘coefficient of 5’, meaning that the time for the stage was multiplied by 5. Apparently Chaleco’s tactic was just to go as fast as possible, while Helder Rogrigues was willing to lose some time overall to start down in 29th place tomorrow. Finally I simply decided to ride at a normal pace to finish 5th which seems to me a good position to start tomorrow. My team mate Ruben (Faria) judged it perfectly to finish just behind me.



Starting positions and tactics aside, it was good to get going today. On the 30th there was the start from home in Andorra, then there was the start of the rally yesterday with the briefing, but now at last we start the race in the middle of the desert and that makes me very happy.



Speak to you tomorrow.



Cyril

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Originally Posted by 8340SU

Hélder Rodrigues Facebook:

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Originally Posted by 8340SU

more photos of the podium ceremony

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Originally Posted by Stagehand

OH YEAH BARREDA!

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Originally Posted by Brodovitch

includes very cool footage of the Bultaco

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