Jan 13th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 8 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 8 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon had a broken studs in stage 7, and had to limp home to a disappointing 56th place finish. Gordon is now 24th overall. The rally now enters Chile, and Robby Gordon will begin stage 8 at 10:45am/et.

2014 Stage 7 Photos

STAGE 8 TRACKING

STAGE 8: SALTA > CALAMA

Connection 510km | Special Stage 302km | Total 812km

COURSE OVERVIEW

Today the competitors will cross the Andes Cordillera, to begin the Chilean part of the rally. A special transition stage has been marked out there for the last day that cars will progress without overtaking motorcycles and quad bikes. The timed section of the day will be accessible to skilled drivers who are at ease on fast tracks in a closed environment. Drivers are advised to pay attention to their position from the outset to limit the number of overtaking manoeuvres, even though the strict standards regarding the use of the Sentinel system will be carefully monitored at the end of the day.

The GREEN section of the route is the connection , the RED is the Special Section of the stage.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 13, 2014 at 9:49am

Good morning all.
Carlos should be taking off in a minute

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Permalink Reply by edgard vargas on January 13, 2014 at 9:57am

aqui vamos

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Permalink Reply by TOG on January 13, 2014 at 10:00am

Stage 7 recap video getting ready to go up. And once again, RG explains in detail what happened.

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Permalink Reply by Rob on January 13, 2014 at 10:21am

Good old lug wrench is the way to go sometimes...

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 13, 2014 at 10:01am

while today's start time is reasonable to us on the West coast,tomorrow it's a 5:28am/pst start time,Weds at 4:48am/pst,Thursday,5:06am/pst,Friday 5:18am/pst and Saturday's last stage at 6:19am/pst. All times are subject to change or delay

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Permalink Reply by Speed Freak 7 on January 13, 2014 at 10:06am

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Permalink Reply by JAMES H HALLADAY on January 13, 2014 at 10:12am

As the race crosses The crest of Andes Range; the time zone should change; so We in the MST zone will have a 3 hr difference instead of 4.
Hope RG can dust the Eurotrash properly.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on January 13, 2014 at 10:27am

I believe that it's currently CLST currectly,so the time zone is the same GMT-3

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Permalink Reply by JAMES H HALLADAY on January 13, 2014 at 10:37am

You are correct; I didn't see the fine print about daylight dummy time.
Thought our Congress was most ignorant on the Planet! LOL!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Reeves on January 13, 2014 at 10:04am

Just a heads up for everyone today - I have this as being Robby's 100th stage on the Dakar - that is quite a milestone and hopefully good fortune will smile on him and Kellon and the whole team today.

Please see my thread from a few days ago with Robby's Dakar stats

http://www.planetrobby.com/forum/topics/robby-s-dakar-stats-2005-to...