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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Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 7, 2012 at 12:15pm

A few years back or are you talking about today?

Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 7, 2012 at 12:17pm

Now 2 cars at wp5 and he has a 12 min lead.

Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 7, 2012 at 12:17pm

This could be bad.

Permalink Reply by Xracer on January 7, 2012 at 12:22pm
I take it chats up and working it's just my iPad its not working on?
Permalink Reply by roy on January 7, 2012 at 12:24pm
Not working on my iPad either? It was early this morning 5:30ish
Permalink Reply by TOG on January 7, 2012 at 12:29pm

yeah I had to pull down the ipad version. It still has flaws. Sorry.

Permalink Reply by Xracer on January 7, 2012 at 12:35pm
Thankx TOG good to know, now I'm not looking to fix a problem I don't have( love tech when it works when it don't monkey/football etc. Ect. ECT!)
Permalink Reply by Xracer on January 7, 2012 at 12:29pm
Chat on my iPad worked great the 1st couple of days but the last 2 I've logged on it hasn't worked for me is that the same for you 2 Roy?
Permalink Reply by TOG on January 7, 2012 at 12:30pm

Waypoint 6 (KM230) will give a better picture of the current positions. Disregard the waypoint 5 standings due to the neutral zone

Permalink Reply by Slider316 on January 7, 2012 at 12:36pm
So rg isn't 8 min ahead? FYI..chat was working ok for me this whole time
Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 7, 2012 at 12:51pm

WP6 looks normal

1 302 PETERHANSEL (FRA), COTTRET (FRA) MINI 001:33:48 00:00:00
2 303 GORDON (USA), CAMPBELL (USA) HUMMER 001:36:41 00:02:53 00:00:00
3 304 HOLOWCZYC (POL), FORTIN (BEL) MINI 001:37:03 00:03:15 00:00:00
4 305 ROMA (ESP), PÉRIN (FRA) MINI 001:37:07 00:03:19 00:00:00
5 312 NOVITSKIY (RUS), SCHULZ (DEU) MINI 001:38:33 00:04:45 00:00:00

Permalink Reply by Jay on January 7, 2012 at 12:52pm

looking like he is getting back to the original 15min mark. making up those lost 5mins at the start.

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