THE DAKAR SPOT

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

STAGE 5 "A Thing of Beauty"


RG Hauls Ass in stage 5, Passes 50+ cars and finishes stage 5 in 15th place!

Robby Gordon's Quote after Stage Five
"The tires that Toyo brought to Dakar have been spectacular and litreally showed today in the very rocky track. We passed quite a few cars today by leaving the track and we punished the tires and they survived extremely well. Our finish today will get us a much better start tomorrow so we are looking at getting the Hummer closer to the front so we can contend for stage wins. Much has happened so far but you have to realize that this race is just five days old and there is a lot of racing left. Our team is working hard and since we solved our fuel problem the Hummer is running exceptionally well. We are going to push hard and make something happen!"

So what does this mean to the Robby fan? Sit back and watch RG clean house on Stage 6. Robbys starts stage 6 in 15th place. The starting times work like this; Cars 1-10 start 2 minutes apart, Then cars start 1 minute apart. This will put a 23 minute gap between Robby and the front runner. Robby will suck that gap up. This gap will close by 150KM and hold a 20 minute lead to the front runner. ... The rest of the stage RG will just have to keep the second place car within eyesight.

Fly says RG wins stage 6 by 10 minutes+. Gas On!