Jan 6th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 2 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 2 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon had vapor lock issues during stage 1, and finds himself over 2 hours behind. The cars are scheduled to begin the 433km special section at 8:55am/et, Robby Gordon will probably begin the stage at 9:36am/et (Subject to change) Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2014 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.

2014 Stage 1 Photos

STAGE 2 TRACKING

STAGE 2: SAN LUIS > SAN RAFAEL

Connection 365km | Special Stage 433km | Total 798km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The fastest special stage of the rally, at least for its first part, will also be the one where drivers will have to face the first dunes. And it won’t just be a brief encounter with sand: in the last 100 kilometres, the exploration of the grey dunes of Nihuil will be even more intensive than during previous visits. The sand is more firm there, but the experience will provide a great deal of insight about each of the competitors’ technical skills. In short it will be a veritable test.

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 WJM on January 7, 2014 at 12:33am

Truthiness. Sousa from hero to zero in less than 24 hours.

Obviously given the number of cars still out on course, today's stage was a motherfucker. Yet, Team SPEED, despite having to get a tow, is still in the rally. There's probably 40+ teams somewhere out in the dark right now wishing they had Robby's problems.

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Permalink Reply by pdxracefan on January 7, 2014 at 1:31am

Couldn't agree more.

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Permalink Reply by Speed Freak 7 on January 7, 2014 at 12:22am

Jeff, watch the video and watch Nasser over-driving the Hummer and causing his own problems then blaming the team for his problems and then quits the race early. Was he exciting to watch...yes, was he a good teammate...hell no. That would be why the people on the ROBBY GORDON fansite have issues with him!

Now stop going on and insulting a lot of people that have nothing to do with your rants. You have a right to your opinion but your sure making it the hard way!

I don't know why people think money had anything to do with RG using an LS instead of a diesel. I don't see anyone complaining the last however many years when RG used a modified version of an LS. New car, new configuration and in the Dakar 1 year early, get over it!

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Permalink Reply by pdxracefan on January 7, 2014 at 12:26am

Um, problem solved...

Thanks to someone high up...

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Permalink Reply by Speed Freak 7 on January 7, 2014 at 12:35am

Yea thanks pdx, after long consideration of what I wanted to say he never even got to se it lol!

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Permalink Reply by pdxracefan on January 7, 2014 at 12:37am

Heh, heh...

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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on January 7, 2014 at 12:42am

I just .........Line diameter........I'm not going into detail but I recall an article on line diameter fluctuation and compession compensation that in turn did not effect end of line pressure when supplied with midstream regulators that functioned not only as pressurization units...........but pressurization retractors in theory that compressed liquid boiled faster than open circuts. Here is a short video describing the resulting theory when the problem of the fuel inline vaporization was overcome and the...well it's short just watch it shows the end result of vaporlock conqured.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VkrUG3OrPc