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Permalink Reply by RGordonNo#1 on January 5, 2010 at 4:13pm

From: Dakar.com

Stage 4 summary
Pending validation by the race marshalls, American driver Robby Gordon (Hummer) wins his 1st scratch victory on this 2010 edition of the Dakar, his third victory in total in the rally raid. With a time of 1h40’21, the NASCAR driver arrived a tiny second ahead of French driver Stéphane Peterhansel (BMW) and 2’26 ahead of Qatari driver Nasser Al-Attiyah (VW)… In the overall stadings it is nevertheless "Peter" who gets the day’s big win as the driver from Vesoul now has a 7’36 lead over his most serious rival Spain’s Carlos Sainz (VW), and a 9’56 lead over Qatari driver Al-Attiyah. Of course, in the Open category, Gordon gets his fourth consecutive stage victory on this 32nd edition. Finally in the production category, French driver Nicolas Gibon (Toyota) is the winner and comes back 10’20 behind the leader in the category’s standings, Spaniard Xavier Foj (Toyota).

Permalink Reply by R. ALDRIDGE on January 5, 2010 at 6:31pm

Has Robby ever not won the open category on a stage? Is it only Hummers or buggy too. What defines open?

Permalink Reply by R. ALDRIDGE on January 5, 2010 at 6:45pm

Thanks moo. Does that mean SCORE (like TT) Regs? So Robby has, what, 40 or 50 stage wins?

Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on January 5, 2010 at 7:16pm

Past Stage Victories:
2005 Stage 1 VW
2005 Stage 4 VW
2007 Stage 6 Hummer <--------------------------------------------------OPEN
2008 CER Stage 5 Scratch 1 winner (1/2 stage) Hummer<--OPEN
2010 Stage 4 Hummer <--------------------------------------------------OPEN

Hat tip to SpottedCow (my hat is wearing out!)

Permalink Reply by bighead on January 5, 2010 at 4:43pm

Found a Little Robby interview:
Robby Gordon: "A special stage victory means nothing to us"
Today’s special stage was perfect for us with a lot of camel grass. It’s on this type of terrain that the Hummer is doing great. Today was a good day. I am glad we managed to recover from yesterday. I got stuck twice yesterday and the engine overheated. We lost one hour. It’s sad but the race is still long. We only had 4 days of raid so far. A stage victory means nothing to us. It’s the final victory we are in for. I have been very careful during the first two days and yesterday we lost one hour. I am sure that today we managed to climb up in the standings and we will see how Chile will treat us. We should be good in the sand dunes. We have worked a lot on the car. Last year we were very close to winning special stages. We often finished second just for a few seconds. Today we win for one second. We have managed to reach the level of the best drivers in the desert but they are much better than we are in WRC-type stages. This year, we did not lose as much time as last year in these WRC special stages. The gap is smaller so it will be up to us to work even harder to win this raid.

Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 5, 2010 at 4:48pm

That's a transcript of the audio interview posted here on the main page.

Permalink Reply by bighead on January 5, 2010 at 4:47pm

Carlos Sainz: "Each day is a new test"

Gordon is very fast... so is Nasser (Al-Attiyah). The problem is that he had a flat tyre twice. I got lost and I lost a bit of time there. But anyway I could not have driven this fast. In the Dakar each day is a new test. That’s what this raid is about. Tomorrow is a long special stage. It will be a test day. We’ll have to be in shape and take the right pace.

Permalink Reply by bighead on January 5, 2010 at 5:11pm

The SBS video is up

Permalink Reply by RGordonNo#1 on January 5, 2010 at 5:43pm

Robby's T-4 Race Truck thru CP 2
They are currenlty 35 out 44 Trucks that has passed CP 2 on Stage 4

35 528 RODRIGUEZ (USA) 18:51:41 03:12:41

Permalink Reply by RGordonNo#1 on January 5, 2010 at 6:59pm

Robby's T-4 Racing Truck just finished in 37th

37 528 RODRIGUEZ (USA) 20:45:56 05:06:56

Permalink Reply by Saint Yukon on January 5, 2010 at 7:41pm

http://tracking.dakar.com/ASO/index_us.html

reports that 528 finished in 38th Position +3:13:20 and overall 528 is 43rd +55:06:40

Permalink Reply by zoomsss on January 5, 2010 at 8:58pm

Finally!!! a path on dakar.com that didn't give me an error!
No penalty showing for #528... so I take it, if they 'support' (and are still running) they aren't penalized then????

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