Race to dakar on ABC

[antvc]

Anybody been watching the 'Race to Dakar' on the ABC tonight.
Trier BMW X5 support car broke a rear left wishbone of the suspension and they had to fly a new part out.
In a previous episode they had trouble with the electrics and didn't want to turn the car off as it might not start.
I wonder how a D3 landy would cope with the conditions.
The rase is interesting and I am supprised at the speeds they do in the desert.

[loanrangie]

And on the previews for the next installement they broke another one ! mind you i'm not suprised as they are hollow cast alloy and the roads are ****e.
Stil not a good advertisment for BMW though.

[p38arover]

I caught the show tonight for the first time. :(

I know I couldn't have ridden 40km let alone 400km with a dislocated thumb and two broken bones in my hand!

Ron

[matbor]

I'm guessing with all that gear bolted onto the car and on top of the car and in the car it is WELL over it's limits, especially on those roads !!! Surprised BMW agreed to it !!!

[Captain_Rightfoot]

I've been watching it since it started. :)

It's a laugh... although it's a shame they swear all the time.

He actually used swearing well for the first time. He was flying in the support plane with his broken arms and he said if he had to fly they would be f$%#$ed. I turned to the wife and said now isn't that the truth! First time they really needed to swear :)

[p38arover]

My wife was amused by the fact that it had English dialogue with English sub-titles --- and they wrote a censored "f*****" when he actually spoke the word.

Ron

[justinc]

I liked the comment ' we're doing 130, and these cars are blasting past us like we're standing still' ...All in blinding dust!! Craziness.
We had to share the special stages with bikes during the '92 Safari,( was it really 14 years ago???) and in some of the sandy / rutted desert stages we came over dunes to find a few flaked out riders just lying there pinned under their immense BMW's,KTM's or Cagivas.
The strain on them was unreal, getting off and running beside there bikes UP soft sand dunes for 100's of metres, in 40 degree heat for km after km...Crazy. I dips me hat to em.

Seeing some of those Bowlers ( Not another hat pun...) in the background doesen't half make me drool and wish I had the finances to do another OZ safari or even a Dakar...

JC

[George130]

I missed it! Will have to catch it next week. What time?

[Captain_Rightfoot]

I missed it! Will have to catch it next week. What time?
20:30 Thursday on the ABC :)

[Reads90]

Anybody been watching the 'Race to Dakar' on the ABC tonight.
Trier BMW X5 support car broke a rear left wishbone of the suspension and they had to fly a new part out.
In a previous episode they had trouble with the electrics and didn't want to turn the car off as it might not start.
I wonder how a D3 landy would cope with the conditions.
The rase is interesting and I am supprised at the speeds they do in the desert.

Had to laugh at that bit where the wish bone went. He ask Keith (driver and owner of the Bowler surport team trucks) about 4 times that there must be a way to fix it. Keith is a mate of mine and i have known the bloke for years. You name it he has raced it, really really nice bloke. But he is a bit of a Broky of UK off roading. If he says it can't be fixed belive him because it can't be. He has done some real good in field repairs with landys and all sorts of off roaders in the past. He used to race landys for years. So he really knows his stuff.He used to race a Landy with a Lamboginy engine in it, and his sons had one with a TVR engine in and the other with a Massiarty engine
So laughed my head off when he started argueing with him about it

[Mick-Kelly]

Its the same production/camera team from 'Long Way Round minus Ewen McGregor. That was another good series to watch. I would give my left nut for a honda Africa Twin like the old dakar bikes,

[JRoly]

i was fortunate to torrent this a few months ago. awesome series..

[Reads90]

i was fortunate to torrent this a few months ago. awesome series..

Yeah i got it sent over on DVD from the UK, took a couple of weeks , then a week later it started on ABC
D'OH :o :D

[olbod]

The series is available on DVD from ABC shops !
Top stuff.

[disco63]

did the 95 round australia, its got nothing on the dakar it is one HELL of a race. My wife bought the book "Race to Dakar" for me for xmas couldn't put it down.

[rick130]

wish I had the finances to do another OZ safari or even a Dakar...

was talking to Michael Denham the other day (nav, Trans Vent Team) and they are building up a new Mitsu Trytoo to replace the old Paj Evo. Talk is that the Euro teams are coming out next year for the Safari.

[antvc]

Hello, justinc, how did you get to be involved in the Dakar?

I would love to go there to be part of a team and also to see those countries they pass through.
I suppose you need a lot of money to buy a place on the support team.
Yes, it surely a crazy race and sadly sometimes people die doing it as Aussie Andy Caldicot did last year when he fell off his bike. He was an experienced racer.

[matbor]

there is going to be another 'Long way around', think the title is the 'long way down', which is all over South Africa, filming starts early 2007 from what I have read.

[justinc]

Hello, justinc, how did you get to be involved in the Dakar?

I would love to go there to be part of a team and also to see those countries they pass through.
I suppose you need a lot of money to buy a place on the support team.
Yes, it surely a crazy race and sadly sometimes people die doing it as Aussie Andy Caldicot did last year when he fell off his bike. He was an experienced racer.

Sorry, only OZ Safari. I would LOVE to do a Dakar event, although it seems a lot tougher probably due to the length and terrain differences encountered.

JC