Archive | 10 January 2012

Dakar 2012 - 8th Stage: Copiapo - Antofagasta

After the rest day, today's going wrong with sporting a 477 km stage. On the weekend has now been clarified how it came to the exclusion of the Kamaz with the start number 500. At the 5th Stage has been as Eduard Nikolaev a private Toyota Land Cruiser driven, which was certainly not intentional and therefore not sufficient as a reason for exclusion should. But now came out that Nikolaev had incurred in the accident was a tire failure. For the repair, the team has requested a time extension while they "forgot" to mention how it came to the damage, so it was the accident at all.

Bikes

Today's stage began in the very long second overall on his KTM's Marc Coma. A few kilometers after the start, he discovered that has formed on the route just a big mud hole and circumnavigated it in order not to get stuck in it. His pursuer, teammate and overall leader Cyril Depres has not recognized this problem on the track, however, and goes completely clean in the mud. It throws him from the machine got stuck and he ends up "soft" in the mud. The same fate goes back Paulo Concalves few meters behind him. Together, they heave the machine from depression in the mud, but the drivers have no chance. Freed when the plane of depression is depression runs immediately without further! Concalves to help. However, depression signaled his backpack rider Ruben Faria, that this help should Concalves, Faria misunderstands the statement again and continue as well. Concalves have no choice but to wait for help from the officials. further accelerate →

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