Dakar Rally

[Zonked]

well the obvious...

[KoKiNa]

Will they call it Dakar again? Why?

[Zonked]

well tought its wont be run in afrika(dumbass's) it will keep its original name.

http://www.dakar.com/

[clovnul]

They should make it every year on different continents. They have plenty of space in Europe, America, Asia & Australia.

[Zonked]

...the rallly got underway

[@ndres]

2010 DAKAR Results

[Zonked]

..the days of Mitsubishi are over

[guesswho's back]

Peterhansel could be up front with almost anything, including Mitshubishi...

[@ndres]

[Zonked]

I am impressed by that Hummer.

[guesswho's back]

Sainz takes over the overall lead after Peterhansel loses a lot of time due to some sort of mechanical failure. It will be pretty damn hard for him to climb back up front unless something happens to the leading 3 VWs.

[Sennamacher]

I am impressed by that Hummer.

Especially because it's RWD and everyone else is AWD

[Sailqueen]

I am impressed by that Hummer.

If you are interested, Robby is tweeting and posting videos and pictures every day from the rally.

http://twitter.com/RobbyGordon

http://www.planetrobby.com/

[Zonked]

I am impressed by that Hummer.

If you are interested, Robby is tweeting and posting videos and pictures every day from the rally.

http://twitter.com/RobbyGordon

http://www.planetrobby.com/

thx.iv seen some of it and seen his website

[Sailqueen]

Well the hummer did not do so well yesterday. Robby Gordon got stuck in sand Thursday and is 1 hour, 48 minutes behind the leader in 6th overall.

[WebHead]

Why would they run a RWD and not AWD?

[Rus-Evo]

Mechanical simplicity?

Marketing?

[WebHead]

But its a Hummer, surely they come with AWD by default?

[guesswho's back]

But its a Hummer, surely they come with AWD by default?

+1

[Rus-Evo]

I would think a Dakar car is VERY different from a stock model.

[guesswho's back]

true, but what would be the point in using an RWD car, when the stock is AWD and even heavily modified 4WD's get stuck?

[Reignman]

Different rules, different weight etc etc...

btw robby gordon slammed Carlos Sainz´s car yesterday, damaging it a little bit. "el matador" was not very happy.

today Al attiya is coming back, I hope he comes to less than 2 mins so we have a great run tomorrow (I want Sainz to win, but I want great show even more)

[WebHead]

Maybe Robby Gordon just likes a really loose drifting car.

[Reignman]

Carlos Sainz and Cyril Despres win the 2010 Dakar.

Hail to the winners, although I do not like Despres at all.

[KoKiNa]

Great victory for "El Matador", congratulations. Carlos Sainz proved again he's one of the biggest drivers in rally/raids.

2 WRC titles ( and could have been easily without that pertinent bad luck 2 or 3 more) and 1 Dakar title (that could have been also 2, as last year he had really bad luck, as usual)