Monday, January 22, 2007

Dakar Rally complete

Peterhansel and Cottret take the top spot beating out Mitsubishi teammates, Alphand and Picard, by a slender 7 minutes. Peterhansel & Cotret win their third Dakar in the last 4 years, (teammates Alphand & Picard were the defending champs). The Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart team certainly showed this year winning for the 7th straight year (12 wins in 25 years--Red Auerbach running that team?). They took 2nd & 5th to boot. American Robby Gordon in the Hummer H3 finished in 8th a full 7 hours off the lead. Cars Final Leaderboard

On the motorcycle side the Gauloises KTM team took the top 2 spots. American Chris Blais with Red Bull USA finished 3rd. Shame to see Marc Coma, who dominated the first 10 stages or so, fail to finish the race after crashing on Friday. Bikes Final Leaderboard

The Dutch Exact MAN Team dominated the trucks with a full 3 hour lead on 2nd place. That's a Chicago Bears style beatdown right there. Trucks Final Leaderboard

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