The Road to Dakar - Robby Gordon

[scoobs]

So is he racing that at the 500/1000 and Andy racing the truck?

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[NIKAL]

Correct me if I'm wrong but, didnt the spy photos on Robby's web site show 2 spare tires standing upright? I tried to go back and look but the photos are not on his site any more or they have moved them some where else. The above photo's show a spare mounted on the outside of the body. Last minute change maybe? Also I would figure the reason Robby is using King shocks is probably is because you need to bring alot of spares and it is more cost efficient to buy them from King then to have to make three or four of everything.

[Hog Wild]

Here's a link to the the moved page: (CLICK FOR PHOTOS)

[Chase 2]

Correct me if I'm wrong but, didnt the spy photos on Robby's web site show 2 spare tires standing upright? I tried to go back and look but the photos are not on his site any more or they have moved them some where else. The above photo's show a spare mounted on the outside of the body.

Could be a total of three spares with two mounted as seen in the "spy pics", and one mounted outside.

Also I would figure the reason Robby is using King shocks is probably is because you need to bring alot of spares and it is more cost efficient to buy them from King then to have to make three or four of everything.

Yeah, that and his shocks were the reason for problems at the 1000. They may not have had time to re-engineer, build, and test the fix of the problem in time.

[ShaneR]

I don't think the pic in the shop with the two vertical spares is the same vehicle at the dunes. The buggy(Cam Theriots old car) they were supposed to be using to do this was a rear engine and the pic with the body on it looks to be rear engine?

[FlyHiFlyLo]

From what I can tell that's a pretty old pic posted.

[David_Girdner]

Could be a total of three spares with two mounted as seen in the "spy pics", and one mounted outside.

In the 'spy pics' I only see one inside vertical tire, I assumed as everyone else did that there were two but only see one... Could it be the the engine is offset to the right (passengers side) and there is just one vertical tire on the inside left? All of the close up Glamis pics only show the right side but in the very first pic of this thread, it looks like there is a tie down on the left side of the rear cage...

[FlyHiFlyLo]

The one on the back is for when he brake checks Jutta on the Liason part of the stages. This way Robby can test her rack and pinion again.

[TRAVISD]

If You Look At The Right Side Pic From Glamis You Can See A Spare Tire Under The Back Of The Body.

[1469]

looks like exhaust to me.