Sunday evening at 6 p.m. eastern time. Daily coverage each night at 6 EST all next week. Event being held in Peru this year.
Sunday evening at 6 p.m. eastern time. Daily coverage each night at 6 EST all next week. Event being held in Peru this year.
In reply to Ovid_and_Flem :
Thanks
I understand the name recognition, but it seems a little odd to be still calling it a Dakar rally when it's held in South America.
Sweet. Wish I had time to watch it. Maybe I’ll dig up a tv for the shop and try it.
In reply to stuart in mn :
It does especially since the whole thing is taking place in one country but I set my DVR anyway. The wife and I really enjoy watching it every year and if I ever run into money I’m going to see it in person.
I wish my favorite driver got tv time but I follow him online:
I haven't watched any yet, I'm waiting for the wife to come home this weekend. Instead I've been watching some old ones on YouTube. Last night I watched 1986 highlights. Tonight I'm watching 1987. It's in I think French which I don't speak but it's got Stretched Peugoet 205s, a LADA Niva, and Jan De Rooy's twin engine DAF steaming past pretty much everything. At some point when I was a kid these were shown on cable tv here because I remember watching them and becoming a fan at some point in Jr High.
I think you can find highlights or recaps on youtube...
In reply to Wally :
Sugawara (the senior) is my favorite as well. The man is completely mental. 77 years old and thinks flying over sand dunes in one of these is a sensible way to spend his retirement:
Just to add to the weirdness, the other Hino truck is driven by his son. It's like some sort of bizarre yearly ritual for their family.
In reply to boxedfox :
It’s insane that he’s still able to do it at his age. A few years ago we were talking to my wife’s acupuncturist about something and it came up that she was following along too. The next time she went home to Japan she brought me back a tiny replica of his truck that came on some snack container.
Edit: I was asking if there was any meaning to that goldfish windsock on his truck. She thought it was for good luck.
In reply to Wally :
The fish windsock is called a "Koinobori." It's a carp-like windsock-streamer thing that they fly on May 5th (Children's Day in Japan) to celebrate good health and longevity for the children in each family.
They normally stack 3-5 of them on a flagpole, with one for each member of the family. The father always gets a big black fish, while the mother always gets a big red fish. Each child gets a different colored fish, and they get progressively smaller as you work your way down to the youngest child.
In families where the grandparents live with their children, they will sometimes fly a gold or silver fish under the children's fish, in the hopes that they'll continue to be in good health and that they will stick around to see their grandchildren grow up.
TL;DR: I think it's his way of saying "I may be 77 but I'm still a kid on the inside."
dxman92 said:I think you can find highlights or recaps on youtube...
Dakar has their own channel with daily highlights for each stage, there's a video for the bikes, cars and trucks with quads and side by sides thrown in there. They're each about 5 minutes long and there are English versions. Great for keeping up with the rally without a lot of fluff (they have other videos for that stuff too which are pretty good).
https://www.youtube.com/user/dakar
Adam
And for those craving a race to Dakar this is also going on right now.
I haven't kept up with this other than to know it exists, I'll probably check out their stage highlight videos tonight or tomorrow on their Youtube channel, looks like there are English versions.
https://www.youtube.com/user/AfricaEcoRace
Adam
adam525i said:dxman92 said:I think you can find highlights or recaps on youtube...
Dakar has their own channel with daily highlights for each stage, there's a video for the bikes, cars and trucks with quads and side by sides thrown in there. They're each about 5 minutes long and there are English versions. Great for keeping up with the rally without a lot of fluff (they have other videos for that stuff too which are pretty good).
https://www.youtube.com/user/dakar
Adam
This is what I watch. You can also get daily coverage via RedbullTV. IMO Redbull does do a lot of original coverage in addition to the Dakar feed but their lack of voice over or additional info on whats going on with the event really dulls the coverage.
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