Thread: Dakar 2014 on TV

I wish I could have a go at rallies. Looks like fun

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

I wish I could have a go at rallies. Looks like fun

get good sponsorship - it looks very expen$ive

Yeah I would hate to think how much it costs

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

Yeah I would hate to think how much it costs

Have quite a few good friends that do it every year and entry and GPS that you need ( have to have two and have to be the ones they tell you to have ) don't get a lot of change out of £55,000. ($100,000)

Then have to buy fuel from Dakar rally group at about £3 ($5.50) a ltr and have to tell them how much you need for the whole rally. And pay for it all up front. If you crash and burn in the first stage. Don't get a refund on the other fuel not used, Tough.

Then space in the service truck is by weight , need a few diffs with you and you know what they weigh , that works out bloody expensive with all the tools and bits you need.

Then you have to pay to get the truck there and the pay to get the truck back. If there's anything left of it.

If your truck breaks done on the course and they have to take it back to camp for you, will make recovery on Fraser Island look bloody cheap.

Plus hotels and all the other stuff that goes along with it and you can imaging that hotels are three times the price as normal at the start finish.

And all this does not include the cost of the car you are going to race. And all that FIA regulation stuff is not cheap.

So really is a big boys and their toys race.

Eurosport's covering it in Britain.
Last year we got two live broadcasts a day, ¾ hour and ½ hour followed later by a ¾ hour summary.
This year we've got a half hour recorded broadcast, most of which is people talking rather than rally action.

It is probably the same that we get

Sbs 5.30pm daily.
Good so far but wish Gordon started better, sainz is my pick this year.

Originally Posted by Fifth Columnist

Eurosport's covering it in Britain.
Last year we got two live broadcasts a day, ¾ hour and ½ hour followed later by a ¾ hour summary.
This year we've got a half hour recorded broadcast, most of which is people talking rather than rally action.

Yeah and that was done by Carlton Kirby who is funny and also let's you know how the privateers are doing.

Can still get those on line on the Eurosport App.