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Old 31-12-2005, 15:53
gwyllion gwyllion is offline
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Ik ben benieuwd naar de tijd van de Belgen (Fast Freddy en Henrard) en Robby Gordon.
Gordon moest tamelijk achteraan vertrekken in vergelijking met de andere toppers. De Amerikanen klagen hier lichtjes over
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Gordon, starting 35th, with veteran navigator Darren Skilton, has a tough assignment making time on the highly favored Mitsubishi and Volkswagen teams, which will start ahead of the Hummer team due to a complicated seeding system that favors proven cars and teams’ starting positions for the first stage. After that, each day’s starting slot will be determined on the best previous day’s combined times on the special stages.

Gordon’s Hummer, running for the first time in the Dakar, is a completely unknown quantity to the French organizers of the Dakar Rally so it was seeded farther back in the starting order. Gordon’s talent, however, was well proven last year in Morocco, when he became the first American driver in the event’s history to win a special stage, while driving for the powerful Volkswagen team.
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