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Route Map 2009 - Courtesy KTM
From October 22nd to November 7th of 2009 Helly Frauwallner and Christian Horwath (KTM suported riders) will go about the next challenge. Here’s an update on how the race is proceeding!
From Paris to Dakar on their Motorcycles - more than 6.500km over mountains, gritty roads and through deserts .Several stages run over more than 700km a day in the most delicate terrain you can imagine.- Challenging for man and machine. The start took place on October 22nd in Paris. The Rally runs through five countries (France, Spain, Morocco, Mauretania, Senegal) to Dakar. Competitors from various countries will take part in the categories "Bikes", "Cars" and "Trucks"
October 22nd, 8:55 p.m. Helly and Chris report about the start in Paris
"Today the race started in Paris! Meeting place was the Parc Floral. The first challange was the ride to the Eiffel Tower through heavy traffic and 1000 redlights. After the start it goes to Ales in southern France, where the technical acceptance test is finished and the prolog for the starting-grid begins. It may be a bit strange, because today we
October 23rd, 11:45 p.m. News from the techn. acc. test and others
"Today technical acceptance-test, worked all over the day and installed the etrack-system. Ernst and Christian had a lot to modify and the riders had to do a giant amount of paperwork. Helly got the illustrious No. "46" and Chris will take the race carrying No. "146". Tomorrow prolog and then we're gonna reach South of Spain during a night-stage to the ferry."
October 24th, 23:59 p.m. Connection-Stage to Almeria/Spain
"After the prolog we started to Almeria via night connection-stage to reach the ferry in time. At 11p.m. Chris' KTM caused some trouble and we had to do a technical stop in the darkness. Until midnight we continued riding and wil now have four hours to sleep. Then the mechanics will carry on repairing the bike, so that we will hopefully reach the ship in time."
Prolog and connection-stage to the ferry.
Today they had to run the prolog. Mano bikes did not start, because the conditions were irregular in some areas because of enduring rain before the prolog. The riders accepted penalty points. The circuit was parially flooded and there were many mud-holes. Chris and Helly have not had and trouble and reached the finish - dirty but unharmed.
October 25th, 21:23 p.m. Reached the ferry in time + expectations for tomorrow
Our riders reached the ferry in time, but had trouble with a broken charge-controller in Chris' Rally 660... Tomorrow's stage will bring a lot of Action and extremely fast passages!
26th and 27th October Helly is the leader at all Speed-Stages, Chris started from pos. 7 today.
"While there were many losses amongst the bikes and numerous, partly severe crashes, Chris started from position 7 today, but still had to fight against technical problems concerning his KTM. Helly finished all speed-stages as the fastest rider! Despite a broken fuel-connector he was able to reach the finish first today...
At todays 27th October the path was very sandy and extremely hot. Chris finally reached the finish without any light in the darkness!"
28th October Chris on position 6, Helly fighting against his very average first-stage results
After stage 3 Chris is on position 6 and Helly on 14. Helly's moderate result in stage 1 makes a spectacular catch-up race necessary. Chris runs constantly good and is placed well amongst the first third of the field until now.
October 29th, 11:30 a.m. The GPS-Speeds of Helly an Chris let us expect nice results for today!
Considering the fact, that it takes some moments until the GPS-Logger offers speed-data and therefore it more or less gives only "average-speeds", those data is really not bad...!
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