THE DAKAR SPOT

~ ~ PROFILES ~~ TECHNICAL INSIGHT ~~ STAGE REVIEW ~~ TEAM U.S.A. ~~ ROBBY GORDON ~~ 100 DAKAR LINKS

Friday, January 19, 2007

DAKAR OR BUST!

Stage 14 is the last true competitve stage in the 2007 Dakar Rally. Stage 14 is another great stage for The Monster. Robby is in a great starting position to catch yesterday's winner and 9th place car overall, Carlos Sainz. Carlos sits just 25 minutes behind Robby in the standings. Expect Robby catch Carlos at KM175 and bird dog him to the finish. With only 12 miles of tricky navigation at the end RG should come out of here with a stage win do to his 20 minute start gap and lock up 8th place or better in the overall standings.

Positions 3rd through 6th face a delima of being blanketed by only on hour. There is a 70% chance one of these racers will snap under the pressure be delt a fatal blow and allow the rest of the field to move up one position in the overall standings and into Fly's mid race report prediction of a 7th place finish overall.

Everybody in the city of Dakar tomorrow will really enjoy seeing The Monster and the powerful big inch V-8 show it's stuff on the on the beach sands of Dakar. They will be witness to the greatest team from the USA ever to participate in the Rally's almost 30 year history.

Turbo Tom's Trio!

Wow! Turbo and his boys are on track to break another USA Dakar Rally Record! If they finish this stage today, tomorrow will go down in the record books as they will be cruising the beach sands of Dakar knowing they are the only team from the USA to finish the race ever in a T-4 support truck.

Team Dakar USA is doing it their way and have left an impression the Europeans will find hard to forget.

Team Dakar USA is doing it their way and have left an impression the United States will find hard to forget.

GAS ON! Fly