Dakar 2006 official topic

[pagani]

Five DAF trucks not cleared to start
By decision of the sporting officials, the five trucks of Dutch manufactor DAF have not been cleared to start the 28th edition of the Dakar. The crews concerned are: those of: Hans Bekx (502), Gerard De Rooy (n° 504), Jan De Rooy (n° 506), Marcel Van Vliet (n° 523) and Hugo Duisters (n° 529).

According to the officials technical report the competitors of these vehicles don’t have the proper documents.
For these reasons, a jury of officials has decided after speaking to the competitors that based on a part of article 25.4 of the rule book as well as the whole of article 25P1 « every vehicle that is not in conformity can’t be cleared to start the rally. (decision of the jury of sporting officials) ». Article 25P2 B must also be taken into consideration. This decision was announced to the competitors at 15h20 and they now have an hour to appeal

Fucking france fia whit their france shit.
Sorry i am bit pissed of now.
It's up hans stacy to defend the dutch honour go stacy!!
And yes i am update.
:snipersmile: :2gunfire: :fist:

[EnzoLover]

You are update?



Is now Lisboa Dakar.

[pagani]

First the daf trucks wheir ok than can't start the rally sounds like a bit bs to me.The kamaz trucks are hardly and they can get away whit anything is seems.
They cheated on the 2005 rally.
If they would have started they would kick some russian kamaz ass.

[pagani]

Here is a movie of the daf trucks in better days.
http://members.home.nl/rallyfoto/Pre..._LeDakar06.mpg

Who still have some fast trucks left with good drivers like anne kies whit his ginaf it's a beast of truk powered by cat engine whit 950 hp 18 liter displacement and monster torque figure of 3250 nm and ways in at 9500 kg thats very light for a truck.


And the man truck of hans stacy

I hope they can kick ass.
Our best trucks are maby out of the race but whe can still win the truckclass whit the ginaf and the man truck.
:shock:

[EnzoLover]

My movie of the first special stage

http://rapidshare.de/files/10169531/Dakar.wmv.html

[hwe]

Thanks for the video pagani - good stuff

[graywolf624]

My moneys on this guy:


Just a heads up, oln has a daily update on the race.. 7:30 pm canada 4 pm US.

[pagani]

The movie of the dutch proloog is shot at the eurocircuit in valkenswaard
famous of motorcross and rallyracing.
But whe still have 3 race trucks in the rally and some trucks for technical support
Next time whe will the win the truck class of the dakar rally.
Bekx and the team de rooy will be back for victory.

[redbaron]

About the DAF trucks I agree rules are rules

BUT the way this disqualification went, was quite suspicious. There were lots of homologation issues. However at 7 December the DAF trucks of team de Rooy were homologated and declared reglementary legal. At 23 December the FIA suddenly told them the trucks were not completely homologated. The official of the FIA who declared the trucks legal at 7 December was now on holiday and refused to say something about it.

My big question is why would de Rooy and Bekx both build a truck which does not confirm the FIA rules? (they both build there own truck based on a DAF without any cooperation)

[luisinho]

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[pagani]

My favorite car is the hummer h3 of robby gorden that thing is fast.
I hope he beats the factory vw's and the factory mitsubishi's with his beast.
Here the tech specs of the hummer

Material: 4130 steel alloy space frame construction
Wheelbase: 120 inches
Track: 88 inches front and rear
Overall Length: 174 inches
Overall height: 65 inches
Weight: 4,500 pounds

Front Suspension: Double “A” arms with coil-over springs and specially calibrated, four position-sensitive by-pass shocks by King. Total vertical wheel travel 20 inches.

Rear Suspension: Semi-trailing lower arm with integral hubs, 934 series CV joints and stub axles by Kartek Manufacturing. King coil-over four-position shocks and springs. Total vertical wheel travel 20 inches.

Brakes: Four wheel disc ProAm brakes by Kartek Manufacturing. A special hand-operated “splitter” brake in the cockpit enables the driver to make tighter and faster turns by isolating the right and left rear brake systems

Steering: Robby Gordon Motorsports power-assisted rack and pinion. One turn lock to lock (37 degrees)

Fuel System: Twin fuel tanks, with Fuel-Safe fuel-cells carry 100 gallons of Regular Grade ASO mandated pump gas. Mileage varies according to conditions, but under the worst-case scenario the Hummer H3 can cover 500 miles without refueling

Jacking System: Twin Howe integral chassis mounted hydraulic rams can lift either side of the car to facilitate a change of tires or extracting from sand and/or mud

TIRES & WHEELS

Tires: Toyo Open Country M/T 37 x 14.50R15 (two spares are carried on board)

Wheels: Robby Gordon 15 x 6.5 alloy racing wheels with integral bead locks.

NAVIGATION

Navigation Aids: Twin Terra-Trip odometers with KVH digital compass, twin GPS, with ASO supplied Iritrac team navigation/locator units. Note: ASO GPS units are purposely limited in accuracy by the organizers to place a premium on the team’s navigation skills. By ASO regulation no communication systems of any type are allowed. The Iritrac system will allow viewers to follow the progress of the race in real time on the team’s website, Robby Gordon.com The Hummer is also equipped with an ASO required Belize satellite tracking emergency, homing beacon which, if activated, immediately disqualifies the entry.


BODY & INTERIOR


Body: Carbon fiber replica of the Hummer H3 made by Menards Engineering Limited in Oxfordshire, England. The two-place cockpit for driver and navigator is completely sealed, filtered by UNI and cooled by an engine driven-air conditioning system.
Seating: Twin Custom built MasterCraft buckets with Simpson five point harnesses. Driver and navigator also wear custom made Simpson fire suits
Electrical and Lighting Systems: Twin Pro-Comp batteries power a Milspec type, custom wired RayChem harness designed and fabricated by James Lin. Lighting by three Hella HIDs units on roof and two high beam/low beam Hella HID units on the front bumper with 55 watt street legal lamps.
Custom fabricated RGM/RacePak digital instrument panel allows monitoring of all vital systems.


ENGINE

Rear mounted, GM designed, fuel injected, normally aspirated, with alloy block and heads, 6.0 liter LS2 series V8, built by Russ Oblenes at GM Racing and specially tuned and mapped for desert racing by Scott Urshell of UMI in Phoenix Arizona.

The engine build specifications, with the exception of compression ratio and its wet sump, are almost identical to those used by GM Racing’s factory Corvettes to win the GT1 Class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, France, on three different occasions.
ASO regulations limit power by use of a sealed induction system using a 37mm inlet anulus. A four-gallon plenum feeds double filtered air to the engine. Bassani Headers with a single Magnaflow muffler keeps the engine within FIA mandated noise limits.
Cooling: Seven-gallon re-circulating through a Ron Davis radiator with two integral heat exchangers for engine and transmission coolant. Ten gallons of emergency coolant/drinking water are carried on board in two five-gallon containers.
The Hummer also uses UMI Racing Technology Mefi 4 engine management system and software along with UMI dash and data logger system
Motor dyno tuned by Todd Peterson and Scott Urshell
TRANSMISSION

5-Speed sequential Albins/Weddel manual shift transaxle. Power is fed through a multi-plate Tilton Engineering clutch assembly

[luisinho]

do you like PORTUGAL?

[pagani]

I have never been to lisboa but my perants have been there so i can't comment on that.

[luisinho]

so what have they said?