Dakar 2021

Are DStv not showing it today? Watching SS15 now and it’s yesterday’s prologue. DStv guide also shows it’s only a rerun of yesterday.
 
Stickfigure said:
Just had a look through the guide for the next few days. Looks like we don’t get any of it live? Only highlights of each stage at the end of the day? That’s a bummer.
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Don't think they have done a live broadcast for many years.
 
B-1 said:
Don't think they have done a live broadcast for many years.
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It will be to expensive, and I don't think there will be infrastructure. I wonder what the changes are that some team can sent a way point to a car, and the car never get lost and the computer hide those info from the organizers.
 
upup said:
It will be to expensive, and I don't think there will be infrastructure. I wonder what the changes are that some team can sent a way point to a car, and the car never get lost and the computer hide those info from the organizers.
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It would be a tough task to set up camera teams all over the route, imagine sitting in one location all day long in the hot desert sun.
 
zest said:
It would be a tough task to set up camera teams all over the route, imagine sitting in one location all day long in the hot desert sun.
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There is real live coverage, you can pay to stream it. DSTV just doesn't do it. They only do the highlights.
 
handyman007 said:
Giniel leading today's stage.
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And he won it. He's had a rough Dakar so far, so good to see him take a stage win. 17th stage win of his career. He is 12th overall. It does sound like Giniel is slipping down the order at Toyota though. He is driving Fernando Alonso's car from last year's Dakar, so no longer receiving preference for top equipment at Toyota.

Bad news for Henk Lategan, who had a massive shunt and is now out of the Dakar. He was running 4th overall in the cars before his crash on stage 5.

Overall, South Africa seems to have unearthed two new stars in the cars. Aside from Henk's promising debut, Brian Baragwanath is lying 9th overall in the cars.

On the bikes, Botswana's Ross Branch is 8th overall. This year he moved on to a factory Yamaha ride, so another promising African for the future.

30-years after he won his first Dakar on a bike, Stephane Peterhansel is leading the cars. The guy is incredible. 55-years old and still blasting through deserts.
 
always wanted to know,
why is it still called the Dakar, it isnt even on the same continent,

or again its just for nostalgia and marketing.
 
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