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And yet another great day for GasGas at Dakar! The team is consistently posting impressive stage times and quality navigational work.
Johnny Aubert rocketed across Argentina today to an superb 7th place stage time while Barragan and Espana came in at 21st and 22nd respectively. This moves the three riders to 7th, 16th, and 32nd overall. Great work GasGas! I was also sad to see Barreda drop out today. He has been far more resilient than in previous years with a much improved attitude. I do hope he will be back again next year with an improved mental ability and his same fast times. I too am still gutted today for AVB. I really was hoping this would be his year. Here's to hoping Benevides can hold the orange boys off for a few more days to take a podium position himself.
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Stage cancelled so basically that?s the end for this year
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Still a day and a half left. But I can't see anyone catching Walkner at this point. Hopefully Benevides can block them from a total 1,2,3 again on the podium.
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He can still take the 15m penalty if he decides to swap the engine just to be on the safe side that will not affect the overall result .
Who could have guessed such an outcome for this year's edition ? Really though this year .
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Dang it! Brabec is out after not being able to repair his bike. Reports say that it had been on fire
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That sucks. so close to the end too.
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I'm really blown away by the quality of riders GasGas has put into this rally. I wonder if even they knew this would go so well. If this race goes any longer Gassers will be on all the podium steps.
Johnny Aubert finished today in 6th, Barragan in 9th, and Espana in 20th. First stage of the race that sees all three riders inside the top 20! Really amazing! This moves them to 6th overall for Aubert, 15th for Barragan, and 30th for Espana. Really really great finishes. I'm sad that Dakar will be over tomorrow. But excited already for what GasGas will bring for 2019.
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Sure am!! I'm a regular inmate over there!
Feel free to come join me in the "All Things GasGas" thread in Thumpers!! Just remember to come back here for all the really good stuff. I post there just to try keep the general riffraff up to date on GG news. I get a lot of PM's thanking me for it so I keep it up as much as I can.
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GG did great, far exceeding my expectations. Here is to hoping that they put together their own sleds for the 2019 edition.
The same can be said of Toby Price, he trained for six weeks for the toughest offroad race in the world and wound up on the podium. 3-1-dnf-3 is not a bad record at Dakar. Absolutely pumped for Walkner, no one was more deserving of the win. Sherco, on the other hand, made a pretty disappointing showing. I realize it's a small effort but it would be so much more interesting to have them higher up in the standings. Maybe Beta showing up for 2019 will light their fire. For anyone interested here is a documentary about Matthias' struggles coming into the 2016 edition. https://www.redbull.tv/film/AP-1PWHQ...one-track-back |
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