Kommentare zu: Bildergalerie Rallye Dakar 2005

Von: propecia

propecia — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:58:26 +0000

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Von: Helge

Helge — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:26:28 +0000

Natürlich hast Du recht. Jeder Todesfall ist äuÃerst tragisch. Laut Eurosport ist Juan Manuel Perez der 44. Tote in der 27jährigen Geschichte der Rallye Dakar.

Von: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:41:27 +0000

Jutta: I agree, this is a sad development. We can at least say that he perished doing something he loved. We should all be so lucky when our time comes. Does anyone have an email address for his team so we can send condolence messages?

Von: Jutta

Jutta — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:10:33 +0000

Not sure if this is the right place for this – so forgive me if it’s not – but with this interesting rallye and competition going on we should not forget that today one of the private motorcycle participants, 41-year-old Spaniarid Juan Manuel Perez, died of his severe injuries sustained during stage 6. This was his 4th Dakar and he had promised his wife it would be his last…how sad and hard the truth is

Von: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:45:40 +0000

Let’s hope his chance comes tomorrow. I wouldn’t mind seeing that!

Von: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:03:02 +0000

Today’s comments from Jutta and Robby are up in the news section of the Dakar site. It looks like Robby/Dirk also stopped to help De Mevius, who was bleeding after his crash. Good thing. I can also tell from the comments that Robby is getting very tired of the Mitsubishi domination, and badly wants to do something about it. Also, if you pay attention to Peterhansel’s comments over the last 3 stages, he has not been so kind to Jutta or VW. We know Robby Gordon. He will take this personally, and before the end he will pick one stage in which to make a 110% effort aimed at trouncing Peterhansel thoroughly.

Von: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:39:55 +0000

To Amy: I am in the states, too. Even in road racing it is very common for a number 2 or number 3 team car, to be asked to set a „blocking“ pace to hold off a competitor team, especially if the number 1 team car/driver has a chance at a season championship. Sometimes teams will even pit a faster #2 car out of sequence, to get track position a lap down, but nearer a championship points competitor. Very common even in NASCAR, it depends what is at stake overall. Same concept here, VW is doing whatever they can to protect Juttas 3rd place overall. They did not invest all this money into the team just to see Robby win stages. Having said all of that, I do agree that a „hero or zero“ approach is what we always prefer to see. Robby has proven himself already in this event, he will get his chance to win it. Playing a ream role for Jutta has given me even more respect for him, and also the team.

Von: Jutta

Jutta — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:23:00 +0000

@amy the Dakar is quite different from „normal“ racing – here it is important to help each other, especially for the sake of the team. Today Robby&Dirk helped Jutta when she got stuck in the sand and so she saved some 5 minutes, which could become valuable. Robby&Dirk are so far back it just wouldn’t make sense if they competed against Jutta.But as we can see they’re doing their best and who knows, next year it might be the other way round – you gotta be patient in racing 😉
And btw: evey racer simply hates letting teammates go past, otherwise he/she wouldn’t be a real racer, would he/she? 😉

Von: Tim

Tim — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:19:27 +0000

Great Job to Robby & Dirk…the So Cal Off-Road community has been watching closely here on this blog…

Tim Sanchez DIRTsports Magazine/Off-Road.com

Von: Kate

Kate — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:08:50 +0000

Gefunden bei http://www.volkswagen-motorsport.de/vw-motorsport/race-touareg-ger/:

#317 Â Robby Gordon (USA), 21. Platz Gesamt-Wertung

„Die Rallye startete sehr gut. Doch wir haben etwas zu viel Druck gemacht, hatten den Unfall und haben uns später festgefahren und dabei die Kupplung beschädigt. Die Dakar ist der härteste Wettbewerb meiner Karriere. Ich möchte noch einige Etappen gewinnen und einen Platz unter den ersten 15 erreichen. Und im nächsten Jahr möchte ich siegen.“

Am besten finde ich den letzten Satz 😉
Mit dem Etappensieg wird es wohl schwierig, wenn sie „Stallorder“ haben. Schade. But we will meet again next year 🙂
GrüÃe, Kate