Jan 8th, 2016 Dakar Rally Stage 6 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 6 of the 2016 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 8th in Stage 5, and his teammate, Sheldon Creed, finished 33rd. The special section of Stage 6 is 542km. Robby Gordon start time: 8:25am/et, Sheldon Creed start time: 9:05am/et.


2016 Stage 4 Photos


STAGE 6 TRACKING


STAGE 6: UYUNI > UYUNI

Connection 181km | Special Stage 542km | Total 723km

COURSE OVERVIEW

The longest special section of the Dakar takes place on the 6th day of consecutive racing. And that is not the only difficulty of this operation, which will take place between 3,500 and 4,200m in altitude. The pace and surfaces change constantly, alternating between sand and rock, which may be disconcerting, especially if it rains. Glimpses of the Salar d’Uyuni are but one of the visual delights on the agenda. Meanwhile, the truck category, which will race separately on this 6th stage, will visit the home town of the President Evo Morales.


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

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He goes on vacation and gets caught...........he ran in a mini and was caught by a..........____________.

Well it's not a total loss today, just came from town getting my mail and got my stickers.

Been traveling today. What is the story? ASems like the Gordini boys decided to camp out on the highest peak at the dakar.

Selfies Time on the peak lol !

" In this series, they make the rules up as they go." RG on the MSNBC recap today of yesterday.
Has anyone heard what caused Robby to stop today? Anyone?

Report from Klaus (RDC) is RG ran out of gas, Sheldon stopped and transferred some and then Sheldon ran out later in the stage

Oh Snap!

Wow, I did that to my son in motocross once - miscalculated - it's been over 10 years and I still feel like crap about it...he was running top 5 too..

I sorta like these stupid error reasons better than mechanical ones. At least this year the Gordini hasn't broke other than the wipers and it appears some tire inflation issues for Sheldon the other day.

The videos of the Gordini on fire and throwing water bottles on it, and it going 30 MPH to not overheat were even more embarrassing I think.

On second thought lets blame ASO and say that they siphoned gas out of the Gordni's the night before.

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