As was so kindly pointed out by a commenter on Tom’s most recent Forgotten Ugly Sporty Cars post, I haven’t been keeping up to date with Dakar. I hate to say it, but sometimes life gets in the way of reporting.
While I’ve been away though, some pretty crazy stuff has been going on. Stage 11 was canceled due to wicked weather. WRC champ Carlos Sainz had a big one, dropping the nose of his VW into a ditch and flipping the beast on it’s roof. Somehow, he thought he would continue even though his co-piloto has a broken shoulder.
While Sainz’s retirement is big news, so is the climb of American Robby Gordon who is now up to 3rd overall. With a second place on Stage 10 and 3rd today on 12, it looks like the Dakar Gods are finally beginning to smile upon Robby G.
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Thanks for posting this as I requested.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Robby for sure. Considering the budgets othe the “factory Teams” he’s doing one hell of a job!
I raced, back in the ’80’s & ’90’s, with the brothers Bristing in the SCORE series in class 12, Mini Mag. Robby was the fastest guy out there, Period!
Maybe if SPEED and other americans got their head outta there b..ts and Penske, and other big USA names supported our guys we’d have more winners and maybe someone in F1.
Nothing against the foreign guys but I think we need some GI’s running all class’ of racing.