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« on: January 03, 2009, 06:17:31 PM »
It kicked off today, I woke up this morning, fired up the PC and saw that I'm only 5 hours behind the racing action. The motorcycles were just coming in to finish the first stage!!! If there's one benefit to the Dakar rally moving to South America, this has to be it. Well, that and a little less chance of the racers/spectators/general population being shot/tortured and/or blown up by terrorists of course.

DAKAR News & Photo Links:
 * Best Source for Information - DAKAR racing thread at ADVRider.com
 * Great source for photos - Motorsport.com - DAKAR page
 * The official Dakar site - Dakar.com
 * Excellent independent coverage - Raid-Live
 * VS will have coverage at 3:30pm with repeat at 6:30pm every day starting tomorrow.

One thing you should know, being the devoted sort of riders that you are, is that there is one very cool quad in the race this year. Well, there's more than one, but this story is kinda cool.

Camelia Liparoti, of Chamonix, France, is racing a KTM 525XC. First ever for KTM and first Dakar rally for this moto-journalist turned off-road rally racer. Here's a pic of her coming up to the start in Buenos Aires:
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2009, 06:28:11 PM »
Forgot one little thing.

Love him or hate him, Robby Gordon is putting a bigger effort into this years race than ever before. His site normally has lots of great info, photos and video.

RobbyGordon.com
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2009, 06:46:17 PM »
One more thing...

...the rally route!
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2009, 08:47:15 AM »
A taste of the action from Day 1.
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2009, 11:06:51 AM »
I need that KTM !!! that ride looks like it is equipped !! ....... and the quad does also....  OMFG  LOL
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2009, 11:54:56 AM »
Cool Videos!

Thanks for posting.
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2009, 02:47:23 PM »
Quote from: JoeR on January 04, 2009, 11:54:56 AM
Cool Videos!

Thanks for posting.
joe

You say you like videos? Check this page out!

Dakar.com Video Page
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« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2009, 10:28:33 PM »
Another great site for racing results, news, video and pictures!

SBS Dakar
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