Club Arnage

Watching Eurosport, starts today.

Nice warm up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA3Gh3EtVXw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA3Gh3EtVXw)

better clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IO0Dc3b1Q&feature=player_embedded#!

Neil,

Is there a set time for the coverage similar to last year?

Thx,

Paul.

Times, from what I can find

British Eurosport
19.15 - Dakar rally

22.00 - Dakar rally

both programs 30 min (too short) and bet they are both the same.

Anyone know if you can see more TV coverage on the web anywhere?

Thanks for the heads up Neil. I will search for web coverage as i doubt North American TV will carry anything.
Happy New Year
Phil

Thanks.  I'd completely forgotten

Forget? Along with the Andros Ice Trophee, it's the start of the motorsport season every year...... ;D ;D ;D ;D

MG Mark

It's on Versus here.  Same 30-minute highlights format as Eurosport.  I don't know if you guys get Versus in the Great White North or not.

http://www.versus.com/shows/dakar-rally/

Thanks Chop,
                  No Vesus here n t Ontario OLN apparently carry it but I do not get OLN on my cable. Boo Hoo
 Phil

I watched the highlights shown on (German) Eurosport last night and found the background music really annoying. Do they have the same 'muzak' on British Eurosport?
And a 30 minute show is too short!

i feel the same way. these guys race all day and they only have enough clips for a 30 min show? they showed a touareg banged up but no footage of the wreck? i guess its hard to cover this thing but it seems weak.

Same last year, wish they would show more. I mean there is enough helicopters doing the rounds.

Also want more truck coverage not the 2min they show.

Mind you there is a nice orange car out there  ;D

Yes there are a lot of helicopters.  But they're not only for TV.  The TV helicopters tend to follow the front runners of the car and bike classes (the heavily sponsored stars) so the poor old privateers and trucks sometimes loose out on coverage.

Also, the trucks run after the cars / bikes, so the TV action then is focused on the bivouac.

30 minutes highlights and 30 minutes live per day (on Eurosport) isn't really enough - it was scheduled after 22:00 last night for some weird cross country skiing FFS.

We get two updates a day on Dutch TV, which is quit good, highlights of the whole stage, cars, bikes and trucks seperately and then there is of course a lot information on the Dutch participants!

Sorry Knetter, but I think the Dutch coverage is rubbish - despite them having their own crew down there. Too many advertisements, too much Dutch-orientated coverage. And still I have only seen Jan Lammers for a split second so far. Obvious to me this is all about sponsors deciding what to broadcast, just like at Le Mans with Team Merksteijn a few years ago - which Spyker?! :-\

Well, there was a camera shot of Tom Cornell on Eurosport last night abite for a few seconds looking at his broken buggy :'(

Shame the de Rooys are already out, look like the Kamze team have the trucks  the class won already!

I hope the snooker which starts at the weekend does not start to over run the scheduled programs on Eurosport >:(

Phil, The welsh girl took a bit of a tumble yesterday and was very late in to overnight service not had the chance to look at the web until now.

Paddy, you could also have a look at the belgium coverage, less commercials and not Dutch orientated. However, you have to like Koen Wauters! ;D

Hi Jules,
          I see she retired aon Stage 4  as did quite a few others which suggests it was a tuff one.
 Phil

That is Tim Coronel, his twin brother. ;)

Hi Phil,

thanks for the heads up on that one, missed the UK Eurosport coverage on that stage.


 ::) Ah right,

A dutchy trucker was interview last night on the live eurosport feed just has he finished the stage, that was a bonkers run off the dune in a truck :o

I think they said it was a 30% incline.  Cracking view down to the Pacific below.

I wonder if any of this happened this year?

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/04/report-police-seize-fake-dakar-rally-truck-loaded-with-cocaine.html

Love to get hold of one of the old Dakar trucks, be good for trip around europe

Hi, Neil can I come with you  around Europe? Actually I think those trucks can go pretty much anywhere.
Phil

Some great pics, Boston globe always have great shots.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/dakar_2011.html

(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/dakar2011_01_14/d31_26573069.jpg)