haha! dont know how or why I put 12 in there!?!?!!!

Bloody Brilliant. I saw that robby gordons up to 7th, but still dropping time on the leaders. He's 41mins down after stage 5.

Bruce is down by 9+hrs, a massively brilliant effort!

Good vid of the preparation: http://player.sbs.com.au/dakar/#/dakar/extras/latest/playlist/Garland-and-Suzuki-prepare-for-Dakar/

I was just looking at the Binderbela Motor Sport wed site, they also have a forum thread on the Dakar.  It has a lot of daily reports.  The address is
http://www.bmsc.com.au/forums/idle-torque/19026-dakar-coverage.html

With Sainz having crashed out, De Villiers and Miller in the Volswagens will fight it out to the finish. There is not a lot between them, only a couple of minutes, so it should be a good finish. Robby Gordon has consolidated 3rd place in the Hummer. Bruce Garland was 15th in yesterdays stage and is now 14th overall just ahead of the other Hummer.

That is a great result from Bruce and the team. They really came on strong towards the end, with top 10 stage results.

Excellent win by De Villiers and it is refreshing to see something other than a Mitsubishi win.

For those that are interested, there is another event that has been held in Africa as an alternative to the Dakar, called "Africa Race"

The link http://www.africarace-live.com/index.php/en gives all the details, etc.

In case anyone hadn't noticed where Schlesser was in his buggy in this years Dakar, well he raced the Africa Race instead and ended up having quite a comprehensive victory, albiet it was quite a small field and certainly didn't have the quality of the Dakar.

-- Edited by Tassie Devil at 12:40, 2009-01-18