ZOUERAT, Mauritania - American Robby Gordon won the sixth stage of the Dakar Rally on Thursday.
The Hummer driver completed the 245-mile stage in 2 hours, 58 minutes, 57 seconds, going from Tan-Tan, Morocco to Zouerat, Mauritania.
Former Dakar winner and Schles-Ford-Raid driver Jean-Louis Schlesser trailed Gordon by 17 seconds. South Africa's Giniel de Villiers came in third for Volkswagen, 6:52 behind Gordon.
Spanish driver and former world rally champion Carlos Sainz was fourth, 7:17 behind, and kept the overall lead with nine stages left.
Volkswagen continued to hold the top three spots with de Villiers second and Portugal's Carlos Sousa third.
Gordon is 18th overall.
Meanwhile, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano criticized the Dakar Rally as "a bloody race of irresponsibility" after a motorcyclist died in a crash.
Elmer Symons died Tuesday, the latest in a string of casualties that have plagued the race. The newspaper, which has criticized the race for years, said in Thursday editions that Symons was its 54th victim.
On Friday, the rally travels 337 miles through the desert to Atar, Mauritania
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ZOUERAT, Mauritania - American Robby Gordon won the sixth stage of the Dakar Rally on Thursday.
The Hummer driver completed the 245-mile stage in 2 hours, 58 minutes, 57 seconds, going from Tan-Tan, Morocco to Zouerat, Mauritania.
Former Dakar winner and Schles-Ford-Raid driver Jean-Louis Schlesser trailed Gordon by 17 seconds. South Africa's Giniel de Villiers came in third for Volkswagen, 6:52 behind Gordon.
Spanish driver and former world rally champion Carlos Sainz was fourth, 7:17 behind, and kept the overall lead with nine stages left.
Volkswagen continued to hold the top three spots with de Villiers second and Portugal's Carlos Sousa third.
Gordon is 18th overall.
Meanwhile, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano criticized the Dakar Rally as "a bloody race of irresponsibility" after a motorcyclist died in a crash.
Elmer Symons died Tuesday, the latest in a string of casualties that have plagued the race. The newspaper, which has criticized the race for years, said in Thursday editions that Symons was its 54th victim.
On Friday, the rally travels 337 miles through the desert to Atar, Mauritania
Don't think I was not on another site during the entire Paris-Dakar rally. RG finished 8th overall with 3 stages in the top 5 including 1 win. He will never quit until he win's it all. Very determined. He was in Parker AZ. for the Parker 400 last weekend but rolled trying to make up lost time. Now he is in Daytona. He never stops. The Race of Champions even called him to replace J. Johnson after Johnson broke his wrist to represent the U.S. with Travis Pastrana but it was during the P-D rally. Just a little RG hype. All you non-believers, keep it up. He will prove you all wrong very shortly.
desertroots I could not agree with you more. Someday....he will prove all the nonbelievers wrong. He has heart and brass...one of these days both of those will see him through.
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desertroots I could not agree with you more. Someday....he will prove all the nonbelievers wrong. He has heart and brass...one of these days both of those will see him through.
It is about time there was another RG fan on this site. I get ganged up on half the time with anything to do with RG. Glad to have some back up.
He will emerge some day soon as a driver/owner, and I can not wait for that day. He has proven he can already win in NASCAR, he just needs to prove he can do it with his own team.
He did have a sponsor in Vegas. It was Monster however Red Bull pitched a fit as they had their mobile suite there and Nascar made Robby pull the Monster decals....that is why the car was black and green and why his team was in monster gear. This could have possibly been avoided if someone on Robby's team had gotten sponsor paperwork in earlier....then again look at sunoco and Shell...maybe it could not have been avoided. We'll find out at another race. Please check your facts prior to pointing fingers and calling foul.
The accident with Mears was unfortunate the dive to the bottom premature however that's racing. He tried to pass and got loose. It happens...happened a ton to allot of drivers yesterday.
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it is unfortunate, but robby shouldn't have been racing so hard that early in the race, last 20 laps, yah no big deal, but all I'm saying is that he was racing too hard early on. but its not unexpected from Robby
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