A little later we begin coverage of the Dakar 2012th This year's edition was launched on 2 January 2012 in Argentina and Chile to Peru leads. The Dakar Rally is the first major motorsports event of the year and one of the last great adventure in motorsport. Unfortunately, the Dakar is also one of the most dangerous adventure. Thus, the private rider Jorge Martinez Boero crashed on the first day of this year's Dakar difficult. He finally succumbed on the way to hospital. For the 38-year-olds, it was the second participation in the Dakar, in 2011, he was hospitalized after an accident, the 6th Step up.
General:
The Dakar Rally, formerly known as the Paris-Dakar Rally, has the name "Dakar" only as a "brand" in the name, because since the rally to be canceled for safety reasons in 2008, had not you drive in Africa but in South America. The Dakar has little hurt, this circuit is very similar to desert, a lot of mud, heights up to 3000 meters above sea level to master. A total of every driver has to travel in the 14 days of the rally about 8,000 kilometers. The relatively inexpensive entry fee to take a lot of private drivers resulting in particular in the Moto bikes and cars at a very large field of starters. Have launched this year 188 motorcycles, 173 cars, 76 trucks and 32 quads. Due to the large shrinkage of the factory teams at the cars in recent years, this year's Dakar is more exciting than ever. Here, VW was the last major manufacturer to the end of the Dakar 2011 and withdrawn so that there is virtually no work team more, in fact, there is a "half" but more on that later. The motorcycle industry has been dominated for years, the team with his two top riders from KTM's Marc Coma and Cyril Depres. Since 2005, either depression or coma won the Dakar since 2001, always on a KTM was the first place. The trucks have been in recent years dominated by Vladimir Chagin in his Kamaz (a Russian truck manufacturer), Chagin joined in 2011 by his active career rally back and, also, the cards are reshuffled.
Names and teams
Cars:
The favorite of this year's Dakar for the cars is definitely the X-raid team with the 3 times Dakarsieger Stephane Peterhansel. The X-Raid team from Sven Quandt is then our "half a works team" because who knows the name Quandt, the Quandt family knows the larger shareholders of BMW. This makes X-Raid started in recent years to upgrade to X3 BMX at this year's Mini.
Persecutor of the favorites is Robby Gordon and his Hummer team, with its monstrous Hummer H3 he has made in recent years had some respect for success, but due to many technical problems and, above all due to the stern drive against the top teams have no chance. This year, without VW, is credited Gordon but good chances for a better result, it could also just days before the start of the rally with Nasser Al Attiyah, the winner of last year's Dakar (there's at VW and 2009 at X-Raid of VW shock) for his team in a second Hummer H3 commit.
Starts with Giniel de Villiers won the Dakar, another former VW factory team in a new team, in this case in a Brand New Toyota Hilux. He is probably more likely given an outside chance, but was shortly after the start of the Dakar is clear that to be expected with de Villiers.
Bikes:
On the Moto wheels tob for years a fierce battle between Marc Coma and Cyril Depres, the two can not really suffer, and it always comes back to ugly actions. This year they have promised their KTM team improvement, now we will see what it is.
Francisco Lopez on his Aprilia in recent years could also make a name and is a Chilean local hero with the most fans at the track.
Trucks:
The dominant team in recent years Kamaz has for this year, its top drivers Vladimir Chagin (7 total wins) and this year is lost to Edouard Nikolaev, former co Tschagins. This has to fight hard, but especially with the resurgent De Roy team. With very heavy trucks, Iveco, Tatra and Kamaz even MAN, it is not easy this year, the winning streaks have continued.
Quads:
The smallest field of starters provide the quads, especially the brothers have Petronelli in recent years made a name.
The story so far / Stage 1-4
Bikes:
After the first 4 stages of depression is already over 8 minutes before the coma is in turn a full 18 minutes before the third-placed Rodriguez on Yamaha. At the end of the first stage of depression was still at number 13 because he wanted to approach the stage a little looser in order to preserve his KTM. Lopez won the first leg is still in itself, but currently almost 30 minutes off the pace in fourth place.
Cars:
For Al Attiyah starts the Dakar directly to a defect in the engine H3 his Hummer, since teammate and leader Robby Gordon the lame H3 Attiyah need to bivouac dragging and the team had the motor repaired overnight so that the second lobster in general the start of the second stage could go. After a very good second step for Attiyah it looks after the 4th Stage for the Hummer team bleak. Gordon lost 18 minutes and 26 Attiyah whole, so that the lobsters are quite cut off at number 5 and 7 After the 4th Stage was able to secure Peterhansel the top of the table after his teammates surprise in the first stages were strong. 2nd place is located surprisingly Giniel de Villiers in his Hilux as fast X-raid had probably not reckoned with the Toyota competition.
Trucks:
Kamaz has to tie it really hard this year to his earlier successes. Really get the Kamaz is not in motion. Could you win a stage win, but at the next stage of the Kamaz with the number 533 of Ardavichus has lost a lot of time and is on the 5th Space. Led by Gerard De Rooy, the trucks are on Iveco, followed closely by Stacy and two other Biason Iveco. The distance is slightly larger then the 4th Place to Loprais in his Tatra.
Quads:
The patron Ellis were pleased at the end of the third stage of rank 1 and 2, according to the 4 leg had to admit defeat, however Maffei. The class will probably decide between these three drivers, since the 4th Sonik already placed 38 minutes missing on 3rd place. But the Dakar is still quite long.
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It does not incidentally, that Al-Attiyah, 2010 for Quandt / X-Raid was traveling. In 2010, Al-Attiyah took the Touareg behind Sainz, the # 2 place with the smallest distance was ever achieved between # 1 and # 2 at the Dakar. * Cough *
And you go to Peru for the first time, would have allowed to be mentioned:-P.
Oh sorry, I've probably missed me by a year, is corrected.