Jan 14th, 2014 Dakar Rally Stage 9 Race Info & Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Stage 9 of the 2014 Dakar Rally. After starting 56th, Robby Gordon had a great stage 8 and finished 10th. Gordon is now 24th overall. Robby Gordon will begin stage 9 at TBA

 

2014 Stage 8 Photos


STAGE 9 TRACKING


STAGE 9: CALAMA > IQUIQUE

Connection 29km | Special Stage 422km | Total 451km

 

COURSE OVERVIEW

The 2014 Dakar will reach its most northern point in Iquique, where the competitors will see the ocean for the first time this year. Above all, the drivers and teams will discover the Atacama Dunes again after a first part of a special stage which will be rather tedious. Dune specialists will be in command over a distance of almost 150km. Thrills will be guaranteed at the very end of the day, on the last three kilometres of the descent to Iquique: there is more than a 30% difference in height from start to finish and it is almost not recommended to break. The law of gravitation takes on its full meaning: the bivouac is not far away!


The GREEN section of the route is the connection , the RED is the Special Section of the stage.

 

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Morning everyone

Holowczy running a dummy trail for the Minni team....down 4 minutes

With a team of 10 you must WIN,

Robby should have been thru 1 -now lets see when the scoring comes in

Stage 8 recap video - The mysterious 1hr delay

http://www.planetrobby.com/video/2014-dakar-rally-team-speed-stage-...

seem happy

Must have been fun to drive with no, or bad breaks.

Now Robby knows what it feels like sit on Kelon's side.
I am sure there are many times he hits the break pedal that is not there.

5th

5th

-50sec

good start

we probably won't see another scoring update for Robby until quarter after

NICE start! Darn, off to a meeting for most of the day. Have fun everyone. Look forward to seeing the results and a stage win. The change in elevation of the dunes at the end look gnarly.

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