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aeronca65t

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It's on now------~Official Dakar Website~


Sample Dakar video (below)
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"typical" Dakar truck (below)
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Thanks for posting that, I was hoping "The Speed Channel" would show some of it, but not so far.

Too bad the Africa route was too dangerous, but this one looks exciting, without anyone being a machine gun target.

I'm rooting for the Kawasaki bikes, but there are sooooo many classes to choose from.

Very exciting . . . :yesnod:
 
I pull for Robby Gordon every year.
 
DNK said:
Where they running this year?
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The '08 event was cancelled due to the possibility of terrorism against some of the entrants when they were in North Africa.

Since then, it has been run on a route that goes through Chile and Argentina. There's a lot of enthusiasm for the event in South America. I doubt it will return to Africa soon, if ever.
 
aeronca65t said:
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Since then, it has been run on a route that goes through Chile and Argentina. There's a lot of enthusiasm for the event in South America. I doubt it will return to Africa soon, if ever.
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Maybe it's time to change the name to the Buenos Aires Rally... :driving:
 
If you'd like to follow it on Australian TV web site, the link is:
https://www.sbs.com.au/dakar/


As usual, it is not easy to watch the reports. I do not know if this is due to crappy web site design, to routing from Oz-land or to DRM issues.

Here is how I do it: I was not able to view it reliably in Firefox, but had success with Explorer instead. Launching the player outright by clicking on video thumbnail does not work; instead, click on the VIDEOS selection in the gray menu bar. That will start the player in a separate window and it will run through all available movie clips in sequence.

FYI, the 1st stage of the bike race was won by Cyril Despres on a KTM (Faria got penalty points for speeding), while the "Matador" Sainz won in the Volkswagen. Unsurprisingly, Vladimir Chagin got the truck stage win in a Kamaz.
 
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