Video: Dakar 2016: prologue stage route
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:44
After the technical and administrative checks that took place yesterday and the day before in Tecnópolis (Buenos Aires), a total of 347 vehicles and 560 competitors, distributed as follows: 136 motorcycles, 45 quads, 111 cars and 55 trucks.
33% of the pilots of the 181 motorcycles and quads participate for the first time in the competition. Including assistance vehicles, 60 different nationalities are represented in the Dakar 2016, with the following Top 5: France 15.7%, Netherlands 15%, Argentina 12.6%, Spain 7, 6% and the Czech Republic 5.5%.
Today's stage, considered type Foreword, it will be the first acid test. With her I know will decide tomorrow's starting order so it will be necessary to give it the right importance. You will not have to risk too much and, with this, mortgage your possibilities already before departure and neither take it with too much relaxation since a too delayed position will make the first week very complicated. With a very fast run on narrow tracks, dust and poor overtaking possibilities could also be a serious problem.
The output will take place in Buenos Aires, and the arrival at the bivouac of rosary beads. Total 335 kilometers with the timed section that we have commented of only 11 kilometers. It is usual for rookies to give a surprise in this type of stage. We will know in a few hours.
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