Jan 12th, 2012 Dakar Rally Stage 11 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 11 of the 2012 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 4th in stage 10 & is now down over 19 minutes in the overall standings. Cars begin stage 11 at 7:44am/et (9:44am local). Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2012 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.

STAGE 11 TRACKING

STAGE 11: Arica > Arequipa

Connection 120km | Special Stage 478km | Total 598km

COURSE OVERVIEW

For the Dakar's first day in their country, Peruvians will be entitled to two special stages and additional kilometres for the motorcyclists. After a day spent switching between off-piste sections and areas interspersed with rivers, they will benefit from a moment of camaraderie?: a specific bivouac will be set up for them before they continue exploring Peru. The concept, which had not been tried out again since the camp of Foum Zguid in Morocco during the 2007 Dakar, will also create a major obstacle which will affect the management of the race. The assistance vehicles will not be authorized in the maintenance area, where only the motorcyclists and quad riders will be able to help each other.

STAGE BY STAGE RESULTS

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 12, 2012 at 3:19pm

Or fuss at Adobe for not making thier platform secure. Plenty of blame to go around.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 12, 2012 at 3:13pm

@WP7, 01:15:23 back. Still 4th in the overall at this point.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 12, 2012 at 3:27pm

01:13:49 back at WP8. Trails DeVilliers by 23 min, or so, to put RG 4th in the overall.

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Permalink Reply by Wally Meier on January 12, 2012 at 3:33pm

Podium still possible and who knows the minis can still have issues or make mistakes

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Permalink Reply by Goody on January 12, 2012 at 3:33pm

So between WP7 and WP8 he made up almost 2 minutes on the leaders? If so it appears the Hummer is ok.

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Permalink Reply by tony kent on January 12, 2012 at 3:36pm

plus he has a lot more vehicles to deal with now

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Permalink Reply by Desert X on January 12, 2012 at 3:42pm

As good as the MINIs have been, three(most likely two) stages left for some much needed trouble. RG just might get that chance for a personal visit with SP.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 12, 2012 at 3:47pm

Not likely to be in physical proximity with Peterhansel tomorrow, as RG will be starting behind a lot of cars based on todays stage finish. Hoping for Mini trouble in the days to come.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Therat on January 12, 2012 at 3:41pm

Yes, it would seem that it's ok.

But what I don't understand is that all of Robby's time loss was on an intermediate (and I thought non-timed) stage between WPs 4 and 5. At WP 4, he was 6:02 behind, in 3rd place. At WP5, he dropped to 24th, 1:11:28 behind. Supposedly he stopped at a "hamlet" (maybe for a ham & cheese sandwich?) and remained there for over an hour.

I'm still trying to figger out what happened there.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on January 12, 2012 at 3:44pm

Yes, I wish someone could clarify the rules for the "neutralized" sections. How is it possible to gain/lose time on an untimed section?

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Permalink Reply by fred richards on January 12, 2012 at 3:55pm

you have to be at your next start time on time, If not the clock starts when you were supposed to leave. In other words you have a set start time and if you miss it you get time added plus maybe a penalty on top of it.
You can be early but if you break the speed limit on the "non" timed zone you will be penalized also.