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2012 Dakar Stage 10 Quotes
Quotes from Stage 10 of the 2012 Dakar Rally
Robby Gordon - Finished 4th
" I hit a rock with both right-side tires and as you can see this wheel is way out, so we've got some broken parts. Do I think I can win again? Of course. I was passing him [Peterhansel], he didn't move over and I clobbered a rock and got two flat tyres at the same time. So, we've got our work cut out for us. We've got a damaged race car that we're going to have work on and there's a lot of damage from what I can see. Now we'll push, push, push even harder."
"About 30km from the finish, I was right on Peterhansel's tail and we were hitting the sentinel telling him we were there. After multiple times he wouldn't move over. We both missed a way point, and I tried my hardest to get around him. When I got in his dust, we had a big crash. Should have rolled the thing, but it blew the rear wheel off the truck as well as hurt the A-arm and transmission. Being down nearly 20 minutes is a lot, but we won't let that stop us. We'll work through the night to get the car ready for tomorrow. Anything can happen...they can have a bad day too." Gordon commented after moving to third in the overall standings.
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Permalink Reply by Tooltime on
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Oscar, please get off the Andy bandwagon! Yeah, we all know the kid can wheel. But Nasser is a wheelman, and drove the piss out of the truck, just as Andy would, and just as BJ did. Dakar is a whole new mind setIts a big picture survival and team effort. We cant have two RG's like we did this year. I would like to see the German guy who just went to the new BMW TT for the baja 1000 from his super clean class 1 car. His name escapes me. He is a great driver,and knows how to conserve and has rally experience. We need people who understand the true DAKAR meaning. Now if we had a team of cars where two cars were primary and the others were watercarriers, then i would pick Andy as one of my choices, but we only have two cars. Nasser bailed on us and the team. And for that, he lost any respect from me. But man the dude can wheel.
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Permalink Reply by Brad on
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He may be able to wheel but he is no longer in the race. Robby would be winning with out his "wheeling"
Win the battle lose the war. Karma has a way.... Nasser will find himself short. If Andy had the bucks he would be there.
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Permalink Reply by Tony Stewart on
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Fking Frogs......I hope Robby puts the bumper to Peterhansel in Stage 11......
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Permalink Reply by Bill Waskey on
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Remember Nasser came with Qatar money, Robby brought home some of our oil $ as well as some of $Billions we pay Qatar for having military bases there. Hopefully they paid up front.
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Permalink Reply by John Marsh on
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So let me get this straight. Robby has a tube of air that's supposed to go to adjust his tire pressure and the tube was found in the air intake for the engine, thus boosting performance? right??
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Permalink Reply by Bob on
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Sounds like something like that. In an earlier stage Robby said something about "having to idle the engine for 2 minutes" to pump a tire up. Not exactly sure how you pump a tire with engine vacuum, but there does seem to be some kind of engine-tire pressure connection. and one that Robby said has been used for years.
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Permalink Reply by ast1994 on
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i pretty sure that their is a compressor in the hummer that inflates and deflates the tires on command when robby said that he had accidentally hit the deflate switch which drained all the air out of the tires and since the pump most likely runs off electricity for it to work he needs to idle the engine just like a semi idles at truck stops to keep all their power on so when he said he was idling he was just doing that to use the compressor.
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Permalink Reply by Lowbird on
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Thats what they are trying to say.
As we all know anyone can run down to autozone pick up a tire pump. Poke a hole in the intake track and plug the pump into the 12 volt outlet and tada you double your hp.From a French site. "He doubled the power authorized with figures ranging between 600 and 700 horses. Practical but prohibited!"
Do we know if they even tested it? Find a local dyno after we win and prove these pricks wrong!
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Permalink Reply by Rick Lowry on
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Time for dust vision! Drive smart Robby!!
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the reason there probably thinking robby is cheating is this year he is actual keeping pace with the top cars unlike last year were he was behind. but if ever one noticed the course changed from a rally stages last year to dune running. the hummer is a class 1 buggy all underneath those buggies are developed for running in the terrain of the current Dakar course this year soft sand and large dunes all at a high rate of speed, and the hummer is tested in baja before the dakar which has similar terrain as this years Dakar if you watch some of the news vids you will see the mini's slow down and bog down in the sand while robby can still keep his speed up but in the tighter sections the mini's have an advantage there over the hummer because of the size difference and the 4 wheel drive helps them. i don't think robby would cheat he wouldn't gain anything and using a tire compressor to make hp isn't realy effective it would do nothing probably and it wouldn't be make 600 to 700 hp as of now the motor in it now probably doesn't make much more than 400hp if not less so unless robby stuck a trophy truck engine in the back of the hummer i don't think he is cheating just that finally the hummer has an advatage over the 4 wheel drivers on many more stages now ....didnt the french do the same thing to armstrong
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