dakar open comment and discussion thread

[randy s]

Glad you are having fun with this board. Lots of good peeps here... I've made tons of friends here in the last ten years. We/this board have been hardcore on this race since RG's first run in the VW in 2005. This board is the Dakar Mecca for the US. Glad to see so much international contributors this year. I'm sure Nasser/RG combo make that happen. Especally someone from Pakistan. Sports have a great way of bringing people together.

how very diplomatic of you scott.....friggin' redneck.....ja ja ja

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[FlyHiFlyLo]

i don't have a link but the oshkosh defense medium duty 6x6 or even the 4x4 just has dakar rally written all over it.

In 2007 RGM was set to work with Oshkosh and after The Punk left RGM that time it just fell into the waste-side. I always wondered how bad ass the MVs would be by now. I always thought they would be running for the win in T-4. RG's second year he drove one of the CAT T-4s and he said he had never driven anything with so much power.

[dezerthaces]

the flying truck......!!!

[randy s]

how come in every video i see, it looks like everyone is haulin ass on graded roads and there isn't any footage of what someone racing in say for example, the baja 500 or san felipe 250 have to deal with? i get kind of tired of the analogy some use by saying the dakar is like running the baja 500 for two weeks straight. that's total bullchit in my opinion. i'd love to see the trucks going down the rumorosa or the summit, not to mention the matomi wash or the san felipe whoop section. if most of these entries in the dakar ran this years baja 500 course for two weeks in a row every day, it would be the biggest yard sale ever.

[Offspring]

how come in every video i see, it looks like everyone is haulin ass on graded roads and there isn't any footage of what someone racing in say for example, the baja 500 or san felipe 250 have to deal with? i get kind of tired of the analogy some use by saying the dakar is like running the baja 500 for two weeks straight. that's total bullchit in my opinion. i'd love to see the trucks going down the rumorosa or the summit, not to mention the matomi wash or the san felipe whoop section. if most of these entries in the dakar ran this years baja 500 course for two weeks in a row every day, it would be the biggest Mini'est yard sale ever.

Fixed. Agree!

[Ferrari333SP]

Fixed. Agree!

This, haha.

[FlyHiFlyLo]

It would be awesome seeeing a Mini at full tilt on ZOO road.

[RGFan]

In unrelated but interesting news.......Norv and AJ will be back for another year with the Chargers (Just announced by Spanos) Back to your regular programming

[FlyHiFlyLo]

In unrelated but interesting news.......Norv and AJ will be back for another year with the Chargers (Just announced by Spanos) Back to your regular programming

Who gives a fly'n Fuq... Cept Fish. Bwahahahaha

[dfmcse]

it's the FMTV 4x4 or 6x6 cargo hauler that i think would be the fleas knees. it may be too gnarly for dakar j/k.

A FMTV would be a nice addition to the SPEEDTeam. Oshkosh says they have 23 variants of the FMTV . . . sounds like they just need to add one more.