Dakar 2014, results
Final standings for our favourites
CARS
Nani Roma got the overall victory.
Team XtremePlus’ both Polaris, were 1st and 2nd in the SSV class!
Our Rescue Angel Truck finished on pos 39.
(Scroll down to list at bottom.)
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| Polaris #350 & #364 | Truck #552 |
Photos: Team ExtremePlus
| Pos | No. | Name | Vehicle | Time tot | Var |
| 1 | #304 | Roma (Esp), Périn (Fra) |
Mini | 050:28:45 | – |
| 2 | #300 | Peterhansel (Fra), Cottret (Fra) |
Mini | 050:31:13 | +00:02:28 |
| 3 | #301 | Al-Attiyah (Qat), Cruz (Esp) |
Mini | 051:22:45 | +00:54:00 |
| 41 | #350 | Alcaraz (Fra), solo | Polaris | 083:30:56 | +34:45:11 |
| 42 | #364 | Duclos (Fra), Delaunay (Fra) |
Polaris | 083:35:57 | +34:50:12 |
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| Nani Roma | Laia Sanz |
Photos DPPI/F.Flamand (Dakar.com)
BIKES
Overall winner Marc Coma, as I hoped (left and below).
Ladies category winner is Laia Sanz (above).
The Estonians have done quite well, participating in Dakar for the first time.
Photo DPPI/G.Soldano
| 1 | #002 | Coma (Esp) | KTM | 052:40:16 | – |
| 2 | #004 | Viladoms (Esp) | KTM | 054:40:05 | +01:59:49 |
| 3 | #006 | Pain (Fra) | Yamah | 054:50:32 | +02:10:16 |
| 16 | #050 | Sanz (Esp) | Honda | 061:16:50 | +08:03:56 |
| 40 | #117 | Meeru (Est) | Honda | 068:38:28 | +15:58:12 |
| 52 | #133 | Triisa (Est) | Honda | 073:57:43 | +21:17:27 |
Photo DPPI/F.Flamand (Dakar.com)
TRUCKS
| 1 | #506 | Karginov (Rus), Mokeev (Rus), Devyatkin (Rus) | Kamaz | 052:36:12 | – |
| 2 | #501 | De Rooy (Nld), Colsoul (Bel), Rodewald (Nld) | Iveco | 052:43:37 | +00:07:25 |
| 3 | #500 | Nikolaev (Rus), Yakovlev (Rus), Rybakov (Rus) | Kamaz | 054:14:50 | +01:38:38 |
| 39 | #552 | Piana (Fra), Cangani (Ita), Trote (Fra) | Mercedes | 113:54:10 | +61:17:58 |
STATS & MATHS
| Amount of vehicles | Total | Cars | Bikes | Quads | Trucks |
| At Start | 431 | 147 | 174 | 40 | 70 |
| At Finish | 204 | 61 | 78 | 15 | 50 |
| Completed | 47,3% | 41,5 % | 44,8 % | 37,5 % | 71,5 % |
The withdrawal rate was very high this year. Everybody had lots of technical mishaps, many so bad that the vehicle broke down beyond repair, or even burnt to ashes. Bodily injuries were not too severe, except one rider and 2 journalists who died – that is always a tragedy.
This rally was worse than “normal”, usually about 50% finish the rally.
Congratulations to all who made it all the way!
