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Anybody else watching the Dakar?
The 2004 Dakar Rally started on January 1st and will run until the 18th. Today's leg is the sixth competitive stage. Colin McRae is driving for Nissan and is sixth overall - how cool is that?
If I ever win the lottery, you just watch out. I'll build up an SVX Raid car and drive it in the Dakar. WOOHOO! I'll have my own support truck carrying wheel bearings and trannies the whole way!
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I was watching a little bit of it the other night and found it a little boaring. I will give it another look.
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The first three days are in France and Spain and the special stages are very short, separated by really long road sections.
After the third day they're in Africa and the special stages are at least as long as the liaison sections. One of the truck teams in yesterday's stage was really on a roll. The trucks run after the cars, but this one was charging through the dunes, passing the cars left and right. Awesome to watch.
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There should be a twin turbo 3 lt Forester in there. Harvey.
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Man, I'm going to solicit my town for money to run in the Dakar...
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2005 RX-8 Grand Touring 2005 Outback 2002 Mercedes-Benz E320 wagon END OF LINE Last edited by Mr. Pockets; 01-07-2004 at 08:47 AM. |
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heh
my favorite class of vehicles are the MASSIVE trucks. those things are just way too cool.. i'd love to run an svx in the dakar but i don't think it's quite got the clearance. it'd be pretty wild to jack one up and put a real 4x4 tranny in it.. anyone?? subafreak? -adam |
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Doesn't have the clearance???? http://www.iespana.es/vivndum/959.jpg The nine-five-nine didn't exactly start out with a lot of clearance, either!
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YES!!! OMG AWESOME!! SWEET!! RAD!!! DUDE!! BOSSA NOVA!! ACAPELLA!!! (watched "teenage mutant ninja turtles II: the secret of the ooze" last night) -adam that is freaking cool. |
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HO...LEE...
Richard Sainct won today's monster stage.
Kee-ripes... ...and just a couple hours ago I said I wouldn't blame him if he dropped out. To fill in those of you who aren't following the event, Sainct had a massive accident and was thrown from his motorcycle at about 65mph on day 4, the first day inside Africa. He had eight stitches put in his left forearm and since then he's clearly been in a lot of pain.
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The pain goes on!
You got to admire the little Jap for trying, but he just did not have the strength to carry the bike up the sand dunes
Andy is still in the running with another good day. The sound of those 900cc KTMs, the torque curve is so wide, they just don't change gears. Can't believe that the BMW team, would set that diesel car up, so that it would suck up a engine full of water in a creek crossing. Another great stage tomorrow 600 mile of torture. Harvey.
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