Dakar Rally 2006
The world's biggest and best
off-road race is about to begin.
Motorsport geeks are getting ready for the world’s biggest and best off-road event — the Dakar Rally. This year, in the US, we’re back to complete coverage. Battles between SpeedTV and Outdoor Life Network, last year, ended with OLN getting the rights — and, then, offering up a mediocre and minimal piece of crap.
It helps if you have a TiVo — since it looks like coverage will roll 1/2-hour a day starting at 4PM EST, 31st December. OLN-TV. 15 days of cross-country rally-raid with 1 day of rest. For fans of off-road racing — cars, motorcycles and amazing truck drivers — this is the ultimate race.
A raid into the extreme
This will be the philosophy for the 2006 edition of the Dakar. Because we have chosen to mix and alternate difficulties so as to make each stage a “concentrate” of what a rally is and of all the qualities required to make a good rallyman, or rallywoman. There will be tracks, fast or stony, sand and crossings. And navigation. A lot of navigation to find the numerous first-time passes throughout the route. Because in the term rally-raid, there is the word raid. Because, also and above all, the Dakar is the extreme event.
BTW, the start, this year, is in Lisbon, regardless of what the OLN website says.
Posted: Tue - December 27, 2005 at 06:53 AM