Jan 13th, 2012 Dakar Rally Stage 12 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 12 of the 2012 Dakar Rally. Robby Gordon finished 25th in stage 11 & is now down over 2 hours in the overall standings. Cars begin stage 12 at 11:35am/et Raceday chat will be available throughout the entire 2012 Dakar Rally. Raceday chat now works on the Ipad & Iphone.

STAGE 12 TRACKING


STAGE 12: Arequipa > Nasca

Connection 412km | Special Stage 245km | Total 657km


COURSE OVERVIEW

Only a flight over the region can allow the Nazca Lines, mysterious motifs created in the ground more than 2,000 years ago, to be admired. The route of the special stage creates another line on the map of Peru which looks like a sand dragon. Although the areas of dunes are evenly spread out, the competitors will definitely remember one of them, which made a deep impression on the reconnaissance team. The dunes follow one after another continuously for almost twenty kilometres, transporting the drivers to a new dimension. As the sand will remain firm in this string of dunes, it will help the drivers to cross them without too much difficulty. But the most skilled dune-crossers will nevertheless be able to create a surprise, in particular three days before the final finish. Those who remember how to perform the "Mauritanian swerve" can save some precious minutes.




STAGE BY STAGE RESULTS

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Permalink Reply by Drone637 on January 13, 2012 at 12:57pm

The rains that created mud pits a few days ago apparently made the heavy dunes treacherous. So they dropped them, probably for the bikes safety.

Permalink Reply by john on January 13, 2012 at 12:42pm

RG ate their ass that leg....GAS ON!!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Carl Abrams on January 13, 2012 at 12:43pm

1st through wp2

Permalink Reply by Xracer on January 13, 2012 at 12:45pm
No iPad chat today?
Permalink Reply by Michael Cyr on January 13, 2012 at 12:50pm

1st through WP2 1' 48 better then Peterhansel......

Permalink Reply by Drone637 on January 13, 2012 at 1:00pm

Sweet! Holowczyc is pushing hard though, in case there is a slip up. Sadly I don't think we have a chance of De Ville slipping up, he is to old of a hand at this.

Permalink Reply by Drone637 on January 13, 2012 at 1:03pm

CP 3 just checked in:

Pos. N° Name Make Time Variation
1 303 GORDON (USA), CAMPBELL (USA) HUMMER 000:39:11
2 304 HOLOWCZYC (POL), FORTIN (BEL) MINI 000:41:40 00:02:29
3 302 PETERHANSEL (FRA), COTTRET (FRA) MINI 000:42:57 00:03:46
4 305 ROMA (ESP), PÉRIN (FRA) MINI 000:43:11 00:04:00
5 312 NOVITSKIY (RUS), SCHULZ (DEU) MINI 000:43:44 00:04:33

Permalink Reply by john on January 13, 2012 at 1:09pm

Funny they are not mentioning RG at all in the Live Chat

Permalink Reply by Jason on January 13, 2012 at 1:10pm

because they have basically already DQ'ed him ya think?

Permalink Reply by Drone637 on January 13, 2012 at 1:21pm

It's because he started so far back. He was 42 minutes behind the leaders at the beginning of the stage, so the leaders were almost 3 check points in before they had his first times up.

Permalink Reply by Steve Lister on January 13, 2012 at 1:11pm
It's just too bad that the stage winner can't pick their starting spot... Would love to see Robby starting tomorrow right behind the Mini Peter.
Oops! I extend my most sincere apologies! I meant the Mini driven by Mr. Peterhansel
Permalink Reply by john on January 13, 2012 at 1:12pm

I guess you have a good point. Guess i being optomistic

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