Jan 7th, 2012 Dakar Rally Stage 7 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 7 of the 2012 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 2nd in stage 5 & Nasser Al Attiyah finished 11th. Cars begin stage 7 at 7:56am/et (9:56am local). Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2012 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.

STAGE 7 TRACKING


STAGE 7: Copiapo > Copiapo


Connection 154km | Special Stage 419km | Total 573km


COURSE OVERVIEW

The loop will be the biggest challenge of the week, although the beginning of the special stage, which will travel along tracks in the middle of the hills and cacti, might appear easy. But afterwards, the strain of the kilometres covered since Mar del Plata will begin to take their toll, exactly at the time when a great number of dunes will follow one after another. The last string of dunes to be crossed, so near and yet so far from the finish, may well resemble a bivouac which has been transported to the middle of the desert. Thankfully for the latecomers who pitch their tents, the regulations allow vehicles to be presented until 6 pm on the rest day.






STAGE BY STAGE RESULTS

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I have got to hand it to the guys working on the 300 & 303 at night between specials. They are taking these race cars that have little test time and are driven HARD, making them competeitive day after day with only one chase/support truck. Damm impressive!

Does anybody else see the resemblance in the shape of the loop to the Stockcar layout at Sears Point? If CP3 were the Start/Finish line.

yeah it does..lol..

Where can I bet on a stage win for Robby the parts are here RUN IT TO WIN IT!!!!!

Hey Mike if RG wins this stage I will send u a couple cans of SPEED!!! Will that work? Lol

hi there at work today can't follow chat updates here would be nice thank in advance

The Mini's have been relatively flawless. With no special yesterday hopefully the Hummer's are rested and ready to fly. Rock on Baja Bob!

Robby just thru CP-1 5 min off the leaders pace.

Another 5 min already?
Not what I wanted to see when I got up.

Looks like he made up time @ WP2

Need to stop the theme of "fall behind and" play catchup.

long way to go. 4 minutes behind is nothing

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