Dakar 2011 - updates

[Wreford Miles]

Opps!...

Not good on the 1st day: http://twitpic.com/3me82y.

 

[moly]

Looks like Craig has come in 33rd and Simon 49th

craig showing his metal l !!!!!!! ongway to go, but if he has the luck he is our best chance of a result fingers crossed mm

 

[y2blade]

great info/thread

cheers guys..following with interest as always

 

[Wreford Miles]

great info/thread

cheers guys..following with interest as always

The Dakar-Rally twitter list I've created now has 18 feeds of what looks to be regular and quality posts with several from those competing or on the ground in Argentina

If you've an iPad and use Flipboard you can load it as a feed by searching for Wreford/Dakar-Rally

If you use twitter search for me @Wreford and subscribe to the Dakar-Rally List

 

[forry]

Opps!...

Not good on the 1st day: http://twitpic.com/3me82y.

Bit of a mess I see cyril Esquirol broke his leg today too

http://www.clarin.com/deportes/accidento-motociclista-frances_0_401360055.html

 

[SamD]

The Dakar official YouTube channel is worth a look for updates

 

[SamD]

What on earth is going on on Eurosport? It's supposed to be Live Dakar coverage now and it's some random sports highlights with bizarre music

 

[Buz]

What on earth is going on on Eurosport? It's supposed to be Live Dakar coverage now and it's some random sports highlights with bizarre music

Thank god for that, thought i'd missed something

 

[dakarDude]

Yeah get Dakar on FFS!

I wouldn't care but they made a boll*x of the first set of coverage by completely missing Jenny Morgan and Craig Bounds.

 

[SamD]

Thank god for that, thought i'd missed something

It's just bizarre/ I can see no connection between the clips at all either

 

[SamD]

Seems to be starting NOW. 16 minutes late, so I suspect we'll only get a 15 minutes programme

 

[Buz]

It's just bizarre/ I can see no connection between the clips at all either

Here we go

 

[dakarDude]

Storms affecting the antennas apparently....

 

[SamD]

Here we go

Storms over the antennas - sounds like an excuse used on the rail network

 

[Wreford Miles]

Google earth route of stage 1: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=14831498&postcount=21

Thanks to Advrider

 

[y2blade]

Dakar coverage now on Eurosport HD

 

[Losttheplot]

Looks like stage 7 is the big one with a 839km day with over 600 km as the special stage, full breakdown here:

http://raceteevee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=219

839 km's? thats about 500 miles

 

[Wreford Miles]

Stage 1 bikes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOLGkPYoiw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Wreford Miles]

Found this online service which converts a twitter list into an online newspaper

Here is the first edition of The Dakar-Rally Daily.

http://paper.li/Wreford/Dakar-Rally

It has a few bugs but for somethingbthat just takes a bunch of tweets and automatically formats it's pretty good

 

[EricGS]

All videos removed due to Copyright claims.

Still nothing on the Dakar site itself.