Jan 5th 2010 Dakar Rally Stage 4 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 4 of the 2010 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat will also be available throughout the entire 2010 Dakar Rally.

STAGE 4: Fiambala > Copiapo

Connection 394km | Special Stage 203km | Connection 32km | Total 629km

Race Results

Robby Gordon - 1st Place
BJ Baldwin - 8th Place
Carlo de Gavardo - DNS ( DQ )

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by RGordonNo#1 on January 5, 2010 at 2:57pm

Stage 4 Trucks

40th RODRIGUEZ (USA) Place thru CP 1 at 16:49:43 1:10:43

He is still in the race guys!!!

Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on January 5, 2010 at 2:59pm

man, i woulda liked to know howCarlos would have done?

Way to go RGM.....Great day

Permalink Reply by zoomsss on January 5, 2010 at 3:09pm

I'm confused....

326 clutch problem, why couldn't it be fixed, was it more than just clutch? DQ'd
528 aids 326 (tow in) and races today?
Someone mentioned that media Hummer w/ crew guys went after BJ yesterday and aided him??? That's allowed?
Someone else mentioned if there was a motor change, that's a DQ as well, why would Robby have a spare motor onboard the support truck???

Permalink Reply by geothermaljones on January 5, 2010 at 3:10pm

5-1/2 minutes out of 5th & 55 minutes off the podium.
RG should be in 5th starting stage 7, maybe earlier.
Then it's a broken/stuck/rolled/lost leader to 3rd or better...

Permalink Reply by RGordonNo#1 on January 5, 2010 at 3:13pm

528 T-4 probably got hit with a penalty that we do not know about yet.

Permalink Reply by RGordonNo#1 on January 5, 2010 at 3:13pm

Stage 4 today

Here is some time between km111 and the Arrival:

302 GORDON (USA) 31:11
301 PETERHANSEL (FRA) 32:58
305 MILLER (USA) 33:09
300 DE VILLIERS (ZAF) 33:13
306 AL-ATTIYAH (QAT) 34:29
351 BALDWIN (USA) 35:45
303 SAINZ (ESP) 36:37

Permalink Reply by Joey Griffin on January 5, 2010 at 3:33pm

hell ya both hummers in the top ten in stage 4

Permalink Reply by Miffles on January 5, 2010 at 3:49pm

All of those Where's Robby? posts had me quite worried. Especially when BJ was showing up on the tracking as moving forward.

I can now breath a HUGE sigh of relief for both teams.

Great job, guys!!! It ain't over till its overr!

Permalink Reply by Joey Griffin on January 5, 2010 at 3:54pm

Team Hummer is Robby Gordon Motorsports theres 3 Hummers in the DAKAR Rally. BJ was Called Christmas day to fill in.

Permalink Reply by R. ALDRIDGE on January 5, 2010 at 3:55pm

Actually, when BJ showed moving forward was when I stopped worrying. BJ wouldn't have passed him without stopping - that's his job. (and they seem to be buddies)

Permalink Reply by Miffles on January 5, 2010 at 5:06pm

I wouldn't put it past Robby though, if something huge had happened to the equipment and BJ couldn't really help, for him to tell BJ to go for it.

Permalink Reply by R. ALDRIDGE on January 5, 2010 at 6:24pm

Agreed. But if that had happened it would have been reported within a half hour or so on the DAKAR site. They keep tabs on the name drivers - VW, BMW,Robby, etc.