2012 Stage 7 Quotes

Quotes from Stage 7 of the 2012 Dakar Rally

Nasser Al-Attiyah - WINNER!

" The car worked perfectly well today and we attacked from the beginning to the end of the special. We took a lot of risks to set the best time. Our objective is to claw back seven or eight minutes every day. And today we did it perfectly. We will do our best to repeat this performance in all stages from Monday onwards, or even try to do better. At any rate, we have no other choice if we still want to win the Dakar! "

Robby Gordon - Finished 2nd

" It really was a perfect day for the Hummers! I had a flat 25 km into the first special and Peterhansel overtook me, but we were later able to move back ahead of him. We will see exactly how much time we gained on him, but it is obvious that our car is extremely fast on this type of terrain. It is easy to see that it was designed for this sort of stages. We have also changed a lot of things, including the transmission, and it is now a fearsome machine. In fact, I am sure Nasser is going to win this thing... OK, the others are still ahead, but I think we are in a very good position for the rest of the rally."

Johnny Campbell

"Overall good day for the Speed Energy Team. 1-2. Started off bad with flat and I did a slow change. RG put it down and there was tricky Nav in the dunes and we made good decisions and past PeterHansel and Holowczyc and left them. This was the first stage of dunes that we broke trail for the cars. We physically led for more than 100k to the finish. Felt good. Nasser and Lucas Cruz ran an incredible pace to win the stage from behind. Looking forward to rest day tomorrow."

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Permalink Reply by pdxracefan on January 7, 2012 at 4:00pm

Clears up any confusion over that matter.

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Permalink Reply by bighead on January 7, 2012 at 4:03pm

Gotta love Nassar

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Permalink Reply by AZBadseed on January 7, 2012 at 4:42pm

7 plus minutes.......ridiculous!! WOW....great show by NAA, and Robby to beat on the rest of the boys is awesome!!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on January 7, 2012 at 5:19pm

Like to have seen Robby pick up more time on Peterhansel today... but as long RG keeps getting podiums he'll catch up. "Peter" is one flat tyre away from losing all that time..

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Permalink Reply by Bob on January 7, 2012 at 5:34pm

Hate to wish ill-fortune on anyone, but what the heck, we've had our share

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Permalink Reply by ROBERT SAVAGE on January 7, 2012 at 6:03pm

Yes and half of it has been called Nasser. When he out there in the next stages going balls out does he expect Robby to stop and bail him out ?

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 7, 2012 at 6:03pm

RG quotes added

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Permalink Reply by Dave Shaw on January 7, 2012 at 6:03pm

302 - Stephane PETERHANSELWe suffer a bit

I expected the dunes to be tougher, but at the end it was a mix with camel grass. We never came close to getting stuck. There was a moment when we overtook Gordon, who had just stopped due to a flat tyre, but he later caught up with us and then overtook us at full speed. We tried to follow him but it was impossible. With his wide clearings, he was able to jump over the gaps! If we attempted to go that fast, we would roll over twice. We suffer a bit in these open desert areas.

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Permalink Reply by Vlad Rogers on January 7, 2012 at 6:18pm

Take that Minis (hate). Interesting how Robby predicted a nasser overall win..

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Permalink Reply by Vlad Rogers on January 7, 2012 at 6:40pm

Has this been talked about, but any talk of getting Nassr in some desert races up north in a trophy yruck?

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Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on January 7, 2012 at 6:47pm

Vlad, one race at a time! would be fun but TT's are big bucks and RG only has 1. Maybe put him in the 2nd hummer for the 500. That would be interesting