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1 255 HALPERN (ARG) YAMAHA 11:02:21
2 252 PATRONELLI (ARG) YAMAHA 11:02:33
3 280 MAFFEI (ARG) YAMAHA 11:03:33
4 262 PLECHATY (CZE) YAMAHA 11:21:29
5 251 MACHACEK (CZE)YAMAHA 11:24:53
6 263 COPETTI (ARG) YAMAHA 11:58:16
7 273 SANTAMARINA (ARG) HONDA 12:18:55
8 258 HANSEN (ARG) POLARIS 12:31:06
9 272 RAMIREZ (CHL) CAN-AM 12:43:07
10 257 MAZZUCCO (ARG) CAN-AM 12:59:26

[feralkid]

Who's dominating...............YAMAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They have already taken the You tube link down - some sort of legal crap.
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Marcos Patronelli out with a fractured knee..........???????

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[John Mags]

Awesome pics Link. Keep em comming!
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I wish these were bigger pics but thats all i got. There really isn't many pics of the competitors and I know many of you are interested in how these guys set up there quad.

Most of the Raptors, Outlaws and the 700XX are runing Mecasystem setups.

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1 280 MAFFEI (ARG) YAMAHA 13:33:56
2 252 PATRONELLI (ARG) YAMAHA 13:35:50
3 255 HALPERN (ARG) YAMAHA 13:37:07
4 262 PLECHATY (CZE) YAMAHA 14:01:39
5 251 MACHACEK (CZE) YAMAHA 14:04:44
6 263 COPETTI (ARG) YAMAHA 14:44:08
7 273 SANTAMARINA (ARG) HONDA 15:05:27
8 272 RAMIREZ (CHL) CAN-AM 15:49:18
9 261 CENKOV (BGR) CAN-AM 15:57:45
10 253 DECLERCK (FRA) POLARIS 16:23:16

[tbr926]

hey BT found you a tractor to compete on a little more than the new car and ill give you 3k for the 09

http://www.ozatv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16439

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1 252 PATRONELLI (ARG) YAMAHA
2 280 MAFFEI (ARG) YAMAHA
3 255 HALPERN (ARG) YAMAHA
4 262 PLECHATY (CZE) YAMAHA
5 263 COPETTI (ARG) YAMAHA
6 253 DECLERCK (FRA) POLARIS
7 251 MACHACEK (CZE) YAMAHA
8 272 RAMIREZ (CHL) CAN-AM
9 258 HANSEN (ARG) POLARIS
10 257 MAZZUCCO (ARG) CAN-AM

I don't have the times because the Dakar site is a bit screwy today......

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[TBR 927]

i agree with jonny keep up the photos linc why go to the dakar site ??


oi tbr why buy a raptor when i have 2 250r s in my shed to make into the ultimate dakar bike

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Brutal stage last night. It started at about 9:00PM last night our time and as of now (18 hours later) there are still plenty of bikes, cars, quads and trucks out in the desert somewhere.

20 of the 32 quads enteries started this stage and 15 have finished; their reward is tomorrow is a rest day.

For everyone still out there they have until 6:00PM on the rest day to get to the bivouac and stay in the race.

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[bullet]

Said with an Elmer Fud accent "Im hunting too-wee-wers, eh eh eh eh".

Great coverage Linc, thanks.
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bullet wrote:

Said with an Elmer Fud accent "Im hunting too-wee-wers, eh eh eh eh". Great coverage Linc, thanks.

the before shot......

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It's rest day at El-Dakaro and the quad field has been decimated. We are half way through the 9000km race and have already done the equivalent of a Safari and a bit in distance. With the last 2 days being the most brutal so far we look forward to more of the same and maybe even harder terrain when the race recommences on Sunday night (EDT).

The quad field started with a full grid of 32 riders with most entrants on Yamaha Raptors (15) or Can-Am Renegades (9) with a few Polaris Outlaws and Sportsman's and a lone gunman on a Honda 700XX.

No Suzukis, no Kawasaki's and no KTM's.

The race started with no real favorite in the quad class. Doubt hung over the injured reigning champ Marcos Patronelli and people questioned whether his fast brother could do the job by himself. The 4 time champ Josef Machacek hasn't had allot of time in the saddle since last year but you can't count him out. His fast compatriot (neighbor) Rafal Sonik is the reigning Sertos Rallye champ and comes in to the Dakar with allot of pedigree.........there are the fast Europeans and a bunch of unknown fast locals.

First to fall was Marcos Patronelli with an electrical fault, he remained in the race but copped a huge time penalty; he tried to make up time but has succumbed to injury and has withdrawn. Next was Sonik who came off on a sweeping right hander, it wasn't a big crash but he broke a bone in his hand and withdrew from the race. Josef Machacek usually goes for it at the start of a rally and then just settles in for the ride; he did just that and was at the pointy end of the field until he received a penalty for missing a way point that has put him a good 4 hours down on the leader and out of contention for the win.

Alejandro Patronelli has proven all the doubters wrong and now leads the field from countryman Tomas Maffei, in fact the locals (all on Raptors) take the first 4 places from the fast Frenchman Christophe DeClerck on a Polaris Outlaw.

As of now there are 17 quads still in the race with up to 3 still tobe confirmed........thats 50% of the field at the halfway mark of the race.

Here is the top 10 at the half way mark......times are still a little screwy on the Dakar site.

1 252 Alejandro PATRONELLI (ARG) YAMAHA
2 280 Tomas MAFFEI (ARG) YAMAHA
3 255 Sebastian HALPERN (ARG) YAMAHA
4 251 Josef MACHACEK (CZE) YAMAHA
5 263 Pablo sebastian COPETTI (ARG) YAMAHA
6 253 Christophe DECLERCK (FRA) POLARIS
7 272 Rodrigo RAMIREZ (CHL) CAN-AM
8 257 Daniel MAZZUCCO (ARG) CAN-AM
9 258 Santiago HANSEN (ARG) POLARIS
10 269 Lukasz LASKAWIEC (POL) YAMAHA

NOTE: times and standings are changing constantly due to penalties. I will update when I can.

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[John Mags]

Found this on the SBS web site...... For Jacob to say he is over this place, man, it must be tough as hell out there........


Bruce Garland was forced to withdraw overnight - the back pain he had shrugged off to complete yesterday’s stage more serious then he’d let on. The ever stoic Garland now lies in hospital with a broken vertebrae.

Today, it was Warren Strange who departed the bivouac. Riding side-by-side with Jacob Smith, Strange lost control after hitting a washout, and crashed heavily onto his already damaged shoulder.

He was taken from the stage by helicopter to hospital, where he’s in good spirits but in some pain.

Jacob Smith rode side by side with Strange for much of the stage, after his GPS failed and the duo shared navigation. Smith was right behind Strange when he crashed.

“He came over a little rise and it just g’d out. Went side to side and then shot him out, it was like slow motion for me, there was nothing I could do,� a tired Smith said.

"I sort of thought he’d be ok because the bike only came down on the low side, but he landed badly and popped his shoulder out.

“He’s alright, he didn’t hit his head or anything, and he tried to get me to put his shoulder in before the chopper came but he was in too much pain,� Smith explained.

After referring to yesterday as ‘the toughest day I’ve had on a bike’, Smith was shattered after today’s stage. “It’s just relentless this race,� he said simply. “Absolutely crazy.�

Smith said no warning was ever going to be enough to prepare for the Dakar, “You can’t prepare yourself for what you’re going to go through till you come here and do it. I came here with the attitude that nothing was going to surprise me and i knew it would be tough, but you just can’t prepare for it.

“You hear all the stories and you think ‘oh yeah’, but you just don’t know til you get here. Maybe if I was out in clear air and could ride my own race it would be ok, but you’re not.

"There’s one problem after another, and you’re always catching guys and getting caught in their dust, and it’s nothing to do with me, I only crashed once and it didn’t even hurt, it’s just one of those things.

“When you’re in dust and back there, you can’t race. You just can’t race the race, you just have to ride it. You can’t ride like you do in Safari or you have what happened to Warren. I’m so over this place.

"There is so much that can catch you, so much. You have a hundred moments a day, where you go ‘urgh!’. Like you’re going over a flat and then it’s just a big drop off, and then the next thing and there’ll be a huge rock you miss by a millimetre,� Smith said, trailing off at the end.

Simon Pavey had an off of his own today, but luckily survived. The Dakar veteran used his experience to navigate through an area that confused many others, in the process picking up time. He sits 71st after finishing 47th on today’s stage.

The Coconut race team are still out on stage, and will be for some time, another massive night for Geoff and Steve who only made it back to the bivouac at 5.30am this morning...and started today’s marathon stage just four hours later!

Tomorrow brings a much needed rest day to the Dakar bivouac.
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SBS journo was just hypeing it up a bit. Jacob has already said that "I'm over this place" has been taken out of context and is looking forward to the second half of the race.

Even so the last few days have been hard core.

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1 280 Tomas MAFFEI (ARG) YAMAHA
2 252 Alejandro PATRONELLI (ARG) YAMAHA
3 255 Sebastian HALPERN (ARG)YAMAHA
4 251 Josef MACHACEK (CZE) YAMAHA
5 263 Pablo sebastian COPETTI (ARG) YAMAHA
6 253 Christophe DECLERCK (FRA) POLARIS
7 272 Rodrigo RAMIREZ (CHL) CAN-AM
8 269 Lukasz LASKAWIEC (POL) YAMAHA
9 258 Santiago HANSEN (ARG) POLARIS
10 257 Daniel MAZZUCCO (ARG) CAN-AM

Patronelli lost alot of time at the start of the special last night but still lies in 2nd. Top 3 separated by 26min.

Tomorrow looks like a tough one.

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Pit quad......