Dakar 2011 Stage 10 - Copiapo - Chilecito

[spalind]

Road section, 686 km
Special, 176 km

The competitors will once again become mountaineers to cross the Andes mountain range. They should also make sure to take a camera to immortalise their journey along the road section on route 60, after crossing the border at the Paso San Francisco pass. After these moments of freshness and relaxation, the riders and drivers should expect heat shock. During this season, it is always very hot in the white dunes of Fiambala. The visit will be shorter than in previous years, but after ten days of racing, this section can in particular prove to be decisive for amateurs who start to show signs of tiredness.

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[spalind]

Bikes are just underway with Jonah leading the pack. Short special today at "only" 176 KMs. Total "cars" left in the race?? 65, the attrition rate has now exceeded 50% as the event started with over 140 cars on Day 1. With 4 stages left (including today) how many will actually finish and will the Fab School Raptor win the Open class?

[spalind]

JS having some problems today, 13 minutes back at WP1...but QC is rocking today...standing in 4th at WP1 only 1 minute back.

[Chris Tobin]

Good for Cody, maybe he can back up Street's win from yesterday!

[spalind]

Cars are on their way!

[CDN11]

I see the Chevy is finally out--to bad

[Tipracer]

Wow and js is way back now, last bike thru cp2 17:45 back...hope he can recover
and cody 5th 1:01 back still close enough to go for the win

[stevef]

Jonah is probably suffering from a navigational error.

Wow, Sainz is 9 minutes off of al-attiya at the first WP...

[Tipracer]

miller third at cp 2
302 AL-ATTIYAH (QAT), GOTTSCHALK (DEU) VOLKSWAGEN 000:19:54
301 PETERHANSEL (CHE), COTTRET (FRA) BMW 000:19:55 00:00:01
304 MILLER (USA), PITCHFORD (AFG) VOLKSWAGEN 000:20:52 00:00:58
308 DE VILLIERS (AFG), VON ZITZEWITZ (DEU) VOLKSWAGEN 000:21:03 00:01:09
300 SAINZ (ESP), CRUZ (ESP) VOLKSWAGEN 000:29:09 00:09:15

[Soylent_Green]

what happened with Sainz this morning?