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SlowBloke posted:edit: second page didn't load properly so i didn't see the last post Sorry, you posted. Now you have to say what you thought about the day.  Unrelated, I discovered a new photographer, Peter Lusk  and I'm a sucker for pictures of puddles.        Barreda broke his back but no spinal injury so at least that's something.       I think this one is my favorite.   
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builds character posted:Sorry, you posted. Now you have to say what you thought about the day. I'm mostly perplexed on what's going on in Sainz head, beside massive trauma. While I'm expecting his Audi overlords to be massive dicks, i don't think there is much to gain to continue racing when there is no way to even get into points for the rallyraid league. edit: New recap is out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmsMhuv9690 SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Stage Ten We start stage ten with a tragedy. Loprais came over a dune and struck a photographer/fan who was on the other side. The man was taken to the hospital with nausea several hours later and died of a heart attack on the way. You can see the video of the accident 1m40s into this link so avoid that if you don't want to see it but to be honest it's not particularly gruesome. Just sad. https://twitter.com/rallyraidnews/status/1613095969079296000 Loprais has withdrawn (whether by choice or because he had to cooperate with the investigation is unclear) and seems incredibly broken up about it. It's not his fault. One of the most important things to remember when you are in the dunes generally and on a racetrack in particular is that anyone coming over the dune CANNOT SEE YOU. It's tragic that this accident happened and someone died, and I understand the desire to get as close as you can to the vehicles but if you ever get a chance to go be a spectator at any motorsport or to play in the dunes with vehicles, please remember that the other side of a hill can't see you. And you can't see it either. You should have a spotter if you're going to go racing over the crest of a dune outside of a race course. In a race course you need to stay off the course and if you're coming up the dune you need to come up the dune out of the racing line, then walk along the crest until you get to the spot.  On to the racing. Stage ten was a short stage of just over 100k to setup for the marathon stages of eleven and twelve. But it was still brutal for the motorcycles with the first riders up at 1:30 AM so they could do 467k of liaison before the start of the race. Imagine riding almost 500k, racing 100k and then another hundred+ back to the bivouac. The orga are a cruel people.  In trucks, with Loprais out, de Baar finished first (you haven't heard of him because he's 28h back in the overall), van den Brink (old) second and van Kasteren a minute behind him in third.  That means van Kasteren leads, with van den Brink (old) 22m41s back and Macik in third 51m7s later. As in bikes, it's everything to play for in the next two stages. van Kasteren has the advantage but a single mistake in the big dunes of the empty quarter could be the end.  Speaking of bikes, we finally have a new leader in the overall. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613182735077740545 Ross Branch won the stage    but Kevin Benavides was flying.  He came in fourth after starting seventh and having a crash on the stage and put 6m38s on Howes and 7m16s on Price to give himself a 1m29s lead over Howes. Price is third, 2m10s back in the overall.  Fourth is AVB almost ten minutes back and it only gets worse from there.  Tomorrow is the first stage in the marathon stages and Howes and Price clearly have a different plan.  Benavides will start in fourth which is not great because you really want to be a little further back for a huge dunes stage like we have next.  Skyler and Toby are starting 15th and 16th respectively and will be able to push all day.   Of course maybe Benavides did this because he thinks he fourth is a good position to not bleed too much time on the first day but set himself up for a great start on the second day when everyone is even more tired and navigation will be even more difficult. Who knows but I can't wait to see!  There are still three Hondas in the top ten but AVB is Honda's best hope to win. Unfortunately for him, he will really have his work cut out being ten minutes back. It's not that he can't make that time up on any one person, it's that he has to do it to three great riders and not lose any time to the guys 5-10 minutes behind him.  Not impossible, but much less likely than one of the top three winning at this point. Of course there's still Quintanilla 15 minutes back and Nacho 20 minutes back and both are great riders too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2a5Ret5TQ Chucky is 23m40s back in the overall, never having really recovered from his bout with the stomach flu.     In cars, Loeb once again won the day  marking the first time that the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team had 1-2-3 on any stage.  Instead of talking about how fast Loeb is, let's watch him try to setup a tent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5A3TKGQQK4 And look at some toyota pictures. Nasser is an hour and 37 minutes up on Loeb so it's still his to lose.   I expect Toyota to push enough that he only loses at most a few minutes each day and have Yazeed Al Rajhi either start just behind him each day or start ahead and pull over and wait for him so that if anything goes wrong there's a watercarrier to scavenge parts from or help him if he rolls or needs a new tire.   I don't know that I would have chosen Adele over the sound of the engines, but I sure like the video. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613135682486284289 Kove was never going to win but I really hope they actually are committed for five years - it would be great to have another real factory in the dakar. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613238922301300736 An explanation from hero's team manager on what they do. https://www.facebook.com/HeroMotoSports/videos/736827257814128 You guys know you can wheelie any day of the week, right? https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613230210186633216 I think this may have been footage from yesterday. https://twitter.com/redbullmotors/status/1613210941931376641 It's important to come down the other side of the dune at an angle so you don't roll. But not too much of an angle so you don't roll the other way either. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613190215979655169 Footage from yesterday but I still love puddles. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613153011370721281 It really was a tiny roadbook today. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613079862297743360 https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613059594275753987 Some classic action.              Old stage but still classic and puddles so you know I'm posting them.    A photographer making friends.       Extended highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmsMhuv9690 And now, on into the empty quarter and the two days that will decide the Dakar Rally!   
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SlowBloke posted:I'm mostly perplexed on what's going on in Sainz head, beside massive trauma. While I'm expecting his Audi overlords to be massive dicks, i don't think there is much to gain to continue racing when there is no way to even get into points for the rallyraid league. Looks like he ended up not starting stage ten so he's out of the race for good. There's always testing and data to gather, but if he's injured I agree it makes sense to stay out. Listen if you think you can get away with not telling me what you think about the day just by editing your last post then you're thinking of the wrong A.S.O. Follow the guidelines! 
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builds character posted:Looks like he ended up not starting stage ten so he's out of the race for good. There's always testing and data to gather, but if he's injured I agree it makes sense to stay out. Well losing a contestant for what is actually is a proper freak accident is far from optimal, esp on a class that already lost a good number of vehicles, and I generally don't give the crowd the benefit of the doubt in rallies. I strongly doubt the drivers are trying to do a carmageddon special on the sly. Sainz did a weird "it's my fault guv" interview that sounded like it was pretty much done at a contractual gun point. Peterhansel suffered mostly the same issues so I feel this is a car-level issue rather than driver.
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SlowBloke posted:Well losing a contestant for what is actually is a proper freak accident is far from optimal, esp on a class that already lost a good number of vehicles, and I generally don't give the crowd the benefit of the doubt in rallies. I strongly doubt the drivers are trying to do a carmageddon special on the sly. I’m not sure I would call “loving floor it lol idgaf about that dunes yolo” a freak accident. Or do you mean Loprais? In which case absolutely agree. In the in-cab footage you can’t even see the guy they hit. I wonder if for Sainz it was a quiet Toyota protest. I really think the rule is if you call the helicopter to come get you you’re out. Let alone get picked up by it. I will have to look it up at some point. Peterhansel did have the same “yolo” over a dune issue but I think that was just reading the roadbook and trying to make up time by not slowing down for a (double?) caution.
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builds character posted:I’m not sure I would call “loving floor it lol idgaf about that dunes yolo” a freak accident. Or do you mean Loprais? In which case absolutely agree. In the in-cab footage you can’t even see the guy they hit. I was referring to Loprais, It's not like you couldn't hear the engine from miles away.
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SlowBloke posted:I was referring to Loprais, It's not like you couldn't hear the engine from miles away. Gotcha. Yeah, I agree. But even if you couldn’t, the line was clear from all the tracks at that point. And the other fans and the other vehicles going by and etc etc. just a bad decision with a terrible result, unfortunately.
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Stage Eleven The first day of the marathon stage and it's all to play for in bikes and trucks and even in cars if Nasser's brain breaks and his team implodes due to being hit by an asteroid!  Toby Price had the opportunity to make up time today  and finished a solid third.  Huh, flat earthers actually were right.  Luciano Benavides finished first on the day but he's still 18m6s back in the overall.  While his brother, Kevin, lost time putting Skyler Howes back in first! 28 seconds ahead of Toby Price and 2m44s ahead of Kevin Benavides.  That's three KTMs up front, and with Price starting third tomorrow, Howes starting fourth and Kevin Benavides tenth, I think that makes Benavides the current favorite to win. On the second day of a marathon stage in the dunes, everyone should be a little extra tired so starting out in front will be even more of a disadvantage. As between Price and Howes I think it's better to start fourth than third but it's awfully close. This is incredible and we are very lucky to have a Dakar Rally that's this close. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613604472705675264 Nacho finished eight minutes back of first but his race is probably over barring catastrophe for everyone else as he's almost 25 minutes back overall.  AVB started in second today and this was probably the death knell for his hopes of victory as well as he finished 9 minutes back and is now 15m24s back overall.  Pablo "Why Male Models" Quintanilla is 14m14s back overall.  Nasser continued his game of cat and mouse only actually the mouse is already Sebastien Loeb and Nasser is going to win a Dakar so he doesn't care about stage wins.  Which, of course, means that Loeb won the day while Nasser lost 6 minutes, putting Loeb an hour and thirty minutes out of first. The Brazilian Lucas Moraes in another toyota is in second, almost ten minutes ahead of Loeb. Remember Loeb setting up a tent? Nasser remembers. He's a veteran and a professional and he's going to win this Dakar, but he wants Loeb to know. He's faster. And he's showing him in the language of performative tent-setting-up. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613584525006864384 Macik was eighteen minutes back in the trucks.  But he still finished second. Look at him flying.  Of course, that puts van den Brink (old) in first by a fair bit and now the overall in trucks is incredibly close too! van Kasteren leads van den Brink (old) by only one minute and twelve seconds! https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613552870762373121 Macik is ~48 minutes back in third and Valtr is fourth, 2h35m back.  Just a reminder, this is Peterhansel's trophy case. I assume this won't be his last dakar but if it is the moniker "Mr. Dakar" is still well deserved.  Look at that concentration. Must be difficult I guess?  An example of the area immediately after the special. Folks stop and have a little break before heading out onto the liaison.    Air your tires back up for the road back.  Little jump?  Great job!  Yup, that's a tire.  That too.  Hmm, that's an engine.   STOP PUTTING YOUR FOOT DOWN, THIS IS NOT FLAT TRACK. Is advice I would give myself if I were riding because it's a bad habit on my part too.  Mandatory SxS content. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613563897361076225 And off, into the sunset.  Why go over the dune when you can go through it?  I'm sure this will be just fine.   Yup, no problems here.  This will be just fine too, I'm sure.    Paolo Lucci walking his bike.  And Paolo Lucci riding it. Just to prove he can.  It's interesting to see the different line the car takes.  Matthias Walkner is still riding on a broken hand. I bet you forgot, didn't you?  This gives a good sense of the variety of dunes and the power the bikes are putting down.  Still just great livery.  Another picture that gives you some sense of the size of the dunes.  These are "medium"  NBC's extended highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saiui3HHgo8 Everyone wants a picture with Walkner.  And it's easy to see why. I'm sorry, I just love this man.  It looks great but you can tell things are going wrong because of the height of the rooster tail. You want that sand going back, not up.   Just your regular reminder that the non-pros participating are among the fastest, most talented people you will ever meet.  Genius plan: find the road through the dunes.  Huh, it's actually working.  Or just follow the tracks. You can imagine how much easier this makes navigating than the first bikes on stage.  Look how far down those tracks behind the rider are.  Beautiful, but what are those trees doing there?  Look familiar to anyone?  Some of this racing is right by a road. I'm sure the temptation to hop on for a few K is tough.  Clement Razy from France.  And Belgian Jerome Martiny who is cool  But not as cool as these Belgians  The Rothman's livery on a safari porsche is great every single time I see it.  Venezualan Nicolas Alberto Cardona Vagnoni shows us how to sit when you can and stand when you have to.  Toby is just showing off here.   Truck!  Truck!  Truck!  Truck!  TRUCK!    At this point in the rally there are only two real stages left and everyone is, at best, banged up.  Some haven't made it.   For one reason  Or another   Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?  But for those that are left, the bivouac at a marathon stage offers camaraderie and a few hours of rest.  Just pick up your snack and your jammies.  Of course the trucks brought air mattresses.  But there's carpet to lounge on.  I assume that's the line for the one bathroom.  Later on there will be eggs!  Varying degrees of exhaustion.  Seriously though  Why male models?  Are you serious? I just... I just told you that a moment ago.  Classic.    R.I.P. 
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Stage Twelve https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613747473817780224 Only 290 kilometers of special stage left and two days! 154k tomorrow and 136k on the last day. Traditionally, the last day has been more of a victory lap than anything but with racing this tight I expect we'll see folks going full throttle to the donkey for both days.  Today was the most important day of the final stretch.   https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613749043057811457 And it was Toby Price who came out on top.   Starting and finishing third on the stage  He's now 28 seconds ahead of Skyler Howes.  It's probably the fact that Toby Price is ridiculously fast and good at racing, but sure check the spokes again my friend.  But there's still tomorrow when Howes will start in sixth and Price again from third.  Benavides is only 2m40s back overall but he starts 5th, one ahead of Howes and behind Price, so he'll be hard pressed to win. It's not impossible but it will require a great ride.  Daniel Sanders continues to ride with, apparently, a huge thorn stuck in his arm. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnWPXwpqVXp Ow.  First place was Nacho whose nickname is Nacho but they still give him the "N. Cornejo" instead of "I." for Ignacio.  Stop me if you've heard this before...  Loeb won. His fifth in a row.  Almost like Nasser doesn't care who wins each stage and just wants to keep his... 1h27m lead intact. He's even letting Yazeed get all the photo ops.  OK maybe still one for Nasser. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613934774111838208 van Kasteren stamped his imprint on the stage in trucks, putting 30 minutes on van den Brink (old).  Macik finished 32m back. He's been out for a while but that cements it.  His truck still looks awesome though.     scuse  me  Seriously, who wouldn't want a picture with Walkner?  He is photogenic as gently caress.  Laia Sanz is still the most talented rider out there even though she's driving a car. Yeah, I'm talking to you Peterhansel.   Great in-car video. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613896594583326720 https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613888924354772992 Classic cars in the bivouac.  Arriving at the rear end late.     double vision     2000 era not-quite-trophy-truck    And the other end of the spectrum.   The truck class started out exactly like this. Support trucks following the competitors and then the trucks started racing each other and voila!  It's interesting seeing the different ways they open up.    Have to admit, I've never seen the socks under the windshield wipers before.  Bill Conger enjoying the marathon bivouac.  Fun fact: Bill did some of the stunt driving in Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby  Seriously. He wouldn't tell me if there were any real cougars involved in that scene though.  If it weren't sand it would puncture a tire.  Did you know that to engage four wheel drive you used to have to turn those little red knobs you see in the front wheel? Crazy, right?  They came prepared for getting stuck.  That's authentic 90s highlighter yellow.  This isn't a classic ca.... oh. ohhhhh. I'm old.  This is a classic.  This too.    Working on the car at the marathon bivouac.  Fanta!  The classic cars get wee dunes.     GET  TO  DA  CHOPPA  This is what I would look like too if I got to fly a dakar helicopter.  You can see how they go and find you here.  South African Kirsten Landmen is the only woman racing malle moto this year. She's still in it.  #selfie from our dutch photographer  I already made the "my truck is stuck" joke, right?  I'm the guy in the back. Maybe if I just stare at it then I won't have to do any maintenance and it will magically fix itself?  Wolfey still in it!  And the people love him.  Yes, this is much better than just giving us 20 minutes of straight footage of the vehicles. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613873243710013444 Strong On Any Sunday vibes here.  Luciano Benavides led out today so those are tracks in the background from folks who knew where the course would be and went out to see it. That makes me wonder if there isn't someone who knows the route and if they don't pass some of that info along. Who knows...  Don't get lost.  And try not to crash. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613850499211530240 Ross Branch still competing.  And Martin Prokop putting in a workmanlike professional showing in his ford raptor.  6th  But...  3h back in the overall  Talk about surfing dunes.  https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613840653770801152 You can surf in water too. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnOkXhBpZHu/ Mad Max needed a dakar buggy.   Quads!  And the obligatory SxS.  Extended highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgozKO2cDuk The empty quarter has terrible cell coverage so folks have been posting fewer photographs. Now that it's over, we should have more from MM and MCH on the last two days.  Han Wei in a SMG buggy is in eigth, four hours back.  Making it awfully hard not to root for Luciano Benevides with all his wheelies and stage wins and birthday post for his brother.  Listen to that bike. https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1613778636473094144 I already have my SxS content! What are you doing here?  Either Ross Branch never crashes or he has new plastics every stage.  Denis Krotov from Kyrgyztan for the x raid mini team.    But things don't always go right.  Sometimes they go wrong.  Very  Very  Wrong  Sometimes they go right.  It's really all... perspective.  The fastest (read: only) Audi is driven by Ekstrom, a mere seven hours back.  I can't even pretend I'm able to come up with something for this picture. Just look at it. 
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Stage 13 The battle today between Price, Howes and Benavides was still neck and neck.  Price finished four minutes and ten seconds behind first with Howes finishing a full minute faster than that.  But because of the time bonus for leading out for the top three, Price's time was reduced by 1m42s and his adjusted time was 2m28s behind first and kept him 1m31s ahead of Howes in the overall.  But the big news came from the Argentine. Kevin Benavides was first and is now a mere 12 seconds behind Price.  That means he starts in first on the last stage but as it should be quite easy in terms of navigation Price and Howes may not have quite the advantage they ordinarily would.  He's in with a shot but Price has to be the favorite with the lead and a starting position in fourth.  I wouldn't be surprised if Howes eased off a bit to avoid crashing and make sure he finished on the podium.  A minute and a half is probably too much to make up on the last stage but these folks aren't built quite the same way I am so he might just absolutely pin it.  van Beveren finished fourth on the stage and is in his best spot in the overall heading into the last day in fourth as well, a mere 8 seconds ahead of his teammate Quintanilla in fifth.  In cars, look, I know this is boring this year in cars. Made worse by bikes and trucks being so close. But Loeb wins again, Nasser is second and he's going to win next stage.  If you like Loeb, you can point out that he has six stage wins in a row - a record - and seven stage wins overall and that is very good.  But Nasser has clearly been milking his lead since Peterhansel and Sainz crashed out.  In trucks,  Macik finished first with van Kasteren coming in second three and a half minutes behind.  But the big news was van den Brink (old) running into problems and dropping 2h35m.  That moves him into third, but he's still ahead of his son in fourth, 85 minutes further back.  Stefan Svitko is in 12th overall after the thirteenth stage. He's a bit of a happy story in that he's gotten to race the dakar ten times and finished second overall in 2016 but, as mentioned earlier, a bit of a sad story because he's from Slovakia and that probably played a part in him never getting a factory ride.  Not pictured: half empty beer cooler in the back.       In sad news, heartthrob Matthias Walkner crashed out and was sent straight to hospital with lower back pain after riding for almost the whole race with a broken hand. Don't worry, he's OK.  Stage 13 NBC extended highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD3My73wVEk  
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Post-Race Pictures Some pictures I found after posting about stage 14         and then select pictures from the MCH Photo - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=mchphoto.cz&set=a.707935474064406 and MM Photography - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=mmphotocz&set=a.609729504495372 dumps. Go like, follow, etc because they're great and take the best pictures.                                    
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Very cool, and thanks for all the work. I used to watch back when Speed was a network on my mom's dish network box. I haven't in years, but it's an amazing race.
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SlowBloke posted:Classic final results are still not in, at stage 13 both Pandas were both in the run, it would be nice to have them both reach the finish line. Looks like they made it! This is their team FB page https://www.facebook.com/adrenaline24h/posts/pfbid0GNnbB1Mi4SYa5kVvqmvnyPXFuWhr7CQ21YW4E2v2ywN2VGY34NJ3io3X3rnRt7wZl and then this video is from there as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiFnjnhWfn8&t=366s sharkytm posted:Very cool, and thanks for all the work. I used to watch back when Speed was a network on my mom's dish network box. I haven't in years, but it's an amazing race. Glad you (and everyone else) enjoyed it. It's an incredible race and I'm glad the social media and videos from it are getting better and better. Hopefully some day folks can just follow along live but that's really a pipe dream (or absurd effort following the stage reports and GPS tracks and looking at live snapchat uploads by heatmap) at this point.
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builds character posted:Looks like they made it! This is their team FB page https://www.facebook.com/adrenaline24h/posts/pfbid0GNnbB1Mi4SYa5kVvqmvnyPXFuWhr7CQ21YW4E2v2ywN2VGY34NJ3io3X3rnRt7wZl and then this video is from there as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiFnjnhWfn8&t=366s Being able to grab the the completion award in a busted panda 4x4 while multimillion custom audi prototypes didn't must be rewarding.
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Jan 19, 2023 18:42
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SlowBloke posted:Being able to grab the the completion award in a busted panda 4x4 while multimillion custom audi prototypes didn't must be rewarding. Different course, but absolutely, 100% yes.
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Jan 19, 2023 19:03
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Thanks a lot for all the updates. I've been a bit too busy to follow closely so it's been great. It looks like the most fun that's possible to have on this planet.SlowBloke posted:Being able to grab the the completion award in a busted panda 4x4 while multimillion custom audi prototypes didn't must be rewarding. Goon team next year?
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mobby_6kl posted:Goon team next year? https://www.autoscout24.it/lst/fiat..._id=1n1ijlig787 It's fun that some of them are as old as me and cost more than a fully decked new Panda 4x4.
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SlowBloke posted:https://www.autoscout24.it/lst/fiat..._id=1n1ijlig787  Panda was my first candidate for the rally before I gave up and got the Fit instead. (which was probably for the better). Really bizarre considering they're an econobox made by the millions, but everything is a collectible now. In any case, this would be the least of our problems. Last time I looked into it, it costs like 200k to enter a car team I think.
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mobby_6kl posted:Yeah I know Unless you babysit the chassis, pandas will rust into nothingness, so you can finder either concourse grade units or rust piles nowadays. Pajeros or land cruisers are a more sensible option.
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