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Gauloises KTM’s Cyril Despres maintained his lead in the Dakar Rally, the Frenchman finishing fifth in today’s stage but still holding down a 36-minute lead over his teammate David Casteu.
Today’s stage was won by Jean De Azevedo, the Brazilian winning his first stage of the rally after battling with mechanical woes throughout this year’s event.
Despres didn’t take any chances today after seeing what happened to Marc Coma yesterday. Despres rode most of the stage with Red Bull KTM’s Chris Blais, finishing just over seven minutes behind De Azevedo.
In winning the second stage of his Dakar career, De Azevedo topped Poland’s Jacek Czachor by two minutes with Latvian Janis Vinters finishing third.
The scare of the day went to Casteu, the Frenchman struggling with a fuel-injection problem, but being able to get it fixed when the special stage was delayed by 30 minutes because of heavy traffic on the road. Casteu finished sixth but still maintains a solid hold on second place in the overall standings over Blais, who finished fourth in today’s stage.
Blais is 53 minutes behind Casteu with only tomorrow’s stage left to run.
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Today’s stage was won by Jean De Azevedo, the Brazilian winning his first stage of the rally after battling with mechanical woes throughout this year’s event.
Despres didn’t take any chances today after seeing what happened to Marc Coma yesterday. Despres rode most of the stage with Red Bull KTM’s Chris Blais, finishing just over seven minutes behind De Azevedo.
In winning the second stage of his Dakar career, De Azevedo topped Poland’s Jacek Czachor by two minutes with Latvian Janis Vinters finishing third.
The scare of the day went to Casteu, the Frenchman struggling with a fuel-injection problem, but being able to get it fixed when the special stage was delayed by 30 minutes because of heavy traffic on the road. Casteu finished sixth but still maintains a solid hold on second place in the overall standings over Blais, who finished fourth in today’s stage.
Blais is 53 minutes behind Casteu with only tomorrow’s stage left to run.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (memento @ Jan 20 2007, 08:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>"The Dakar Rally has claimed its second victim of 2007 as French Yamaha rider Eric Aubijoux died of a heart attack on the special stage."
Sad news
One thing I don't understand, how exactly did it happen? If it was a heart attack we can't really say the dakar 'claimed' him as such
One thing I don't understand, how exactly did it happen? If it was a heart attack we can't really say the dakar 'claimed' him as such
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Orrmate @ Jan 20 2007, 10:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>
Sad news
One thing I don't understand, how exactly did it happen? If it was a heart attack we can't really say the dakar 'claimed' him as such
From eurosport.com:
"The incident occurred 15km before the finish line of the liason when rider #26 stopped and complained of feeling ill. He then fell unconscious and medics were not able to resuscitate him."
If somebody is interested, symbols from the road book, and real road book pages from 2001 can be found here:
http://www.apcsport.com/dakar/
One thing I don't understand, how exactly did it happen? If it was a heart attack we can't really say the dakar 'claimed' him as such
From eurosport.com:
"The incident occurred 15km before the finish line of the liason when rider #26 stopped and complained of feeling ill. He then fell unconscious and medics were not able to resuscitate him."
If somebody is interested, symbols from the road book, and real road book pages from 2001 can be found here:
http://www.apcsport.com/dakar/
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (memento @ Jan 21 2007, 02:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>From eurosport.com:
"The incident occurred 15km before the finish line of the liason when rider #26 stopped and complained of feeling ill. He then fell unconscious and medics were not able to resuscitate him."
If somebody is interested, symbols from the road book, and real road book pages from 2001 can be found here:
http://www.apcsport.com/dakar/
9th win for Peterhansel!
Well done to the man and Despres
Pete
"The incident occurred 15km before the finish line of the liason when rider #26 stopped and complained of feeling ill. He then fell unconscious and medics were not able to resuscitate him."
If somebody is interested, symbols from the road book, and real road book pages from 2001 can be found here:
http://www.apcsport.com/dakar/
9th win for Peterhansel!
Well done to the man and Despres
Pete
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (memento @ Jan 21 2007, 02:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>From eurosport.com:
"The incident occurred 15km before the finish line of the liason when rider #26 stopped and complained of feeling ill. He then fell unconscious and medics were not able to resuscitate him."
If somebody is interested, symbols from the road book, and real road book pages from 2001 can be found here:
http://www.apcsport.com/dakar/
That's really sad news, good thing to say that the Dakar didn't claim his life though.
"The incident occurred 15km before the finish line of the liason when rider #26 stopped and complained of feeling ill. He then fell unconscious and medics were not able to resuscitate him."
If somebody is interested, symbols from the road book, and real road book pages from 2001 can be found here:
http://www.apcsport.com/dakar/
That's really sad news, good thing to say that the Dakar didn't claim his life though.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (R-46 @ Jan 22 2007, 08:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>but the hummer being american made will probally fall apart anytime now.
Result: R. Gordon 8th final. I guess the Hummer made it. (Oh, by the way, Robby Gordon is not considered a NASCAR driver only (his brother is), Robby is known more for off-roading. He is a Baja champions and has won racing in SCORE as well in trophy trucks).
Result: R. Gordon 8th final. I guess the Hummer made it. (Oh, by the way, Robby Gordon is not considered a NASCAR driver only (his brother is), Robby is known more for off-roading. He is a Baja champions and has won racing in SCORE as well in trophy trucks).
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Alex @ Jan 21 2007, 06:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>That's really sad news, good thing to say that the Dakar didn't claim his life though.
More news about this:
The death of a French motorcycle rider during the Dakar rally at the weekend might have been caused by a road accident.
42-year-old Eric Aubijoux died of a heart attack after completing the penultimate 14th stage.
"We have new elements to suggest Eric was the victim of an impact," Dakar rally general director Gilbert Ysern told French regional daily Sud-Ouest.
"Medical tests appear to show that there were fractures and local police have collected witness accounts which seem to indicate that there was an accident," he added.
More news about this:
The death of a French motorcycle rider during the Dakar rally at the weekend might have been caused by a road accident.
42-year-old Eric Aubijoux died of a heart attack after completing the penultimate 14th stage.
"We have new elements to suggest Eric was the victim of an impact," Dakar rally general director Gilbert Ysern told French regional daily Sud-Ouest.
"Medical tests appear to show that there were fractures and local police have collected witness accounts which seem to indicate that there was an accident," he added.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (memento @ Jan 23 2007, 02:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>More news about this:
The death of a French motorcycle rider during the Dakar rally at the weekend might have been caused by a road accident.
42-year-old Eric Aubijoux died of a heart attack after completing the penultimate 14th stage.
"We have new elements to suggest Eric was the victim of an impact," Dakar rally general director Gilbert Ysern told French regional daily Sud-Ouest.
"Medical tests appear to show that there were fractures and local police have collected witness accounts which seem to indicate that there was an accident," he added.
Ah that's it then, always seemed quite strange that he just died suddenly from a random heart attack. I guess that's another one heading for the body bag.
The death of a French motorcycle rider during the Dakar rally at the weekend might have been caused by a road accident.
42-year-old Eric Aubijoux died of a heart attack after completing the penultimate 14th stage.
"We have new elements to suggest Eric was the victim of an impact," Dakar rally general director Gilbert Ysern told French regional daily Sud-Ouest.
"Medical tests appear to show that there were fractures and local police have collected witness accounts which seem to indicate that there was an accident," he added.
Ah that's it then, always seemed quite strange that he just died suddenly from a random heart attack. I guess that's another one heading for the body bag.
