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dakar

  • 04-01-2006 11:16PM
    #1
    greg-h
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    Is any one following this years dakar it shaping up to be a good one


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  • #2
    Scober11
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    Didn't even know it was on till i read this thread. Is it usually on this early ?? I guy i know brought his jeep over their and done a tour in the desert as kind of a holiday with some other buddies and said its absolutely mad, scourching heat and freezing nites and the fuel its almost for nothing!


  • #3
    greg-h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭greg-h


    Death of Andy Caldecott
    The organisers of the 28th edition of the Dakar have learnt today, Monday the 9th of January 2006, the death of KTM rider n°10 Andy Caldecott.

    At km 250 of stage 9 between Nouakchott and Kiffa, on a fast portion, the Australian biker suffered a bad crash. and died.

    Aware of the accident at 11:31AM, the rally headquarters immediately sent a medical helicopter that landed at 11:55 AM on the scene of the accident. The doctors unfortunately could only note the death of the biker that according to them struck immediately.

    Andy Caldecott, 41 years of age, was competing in his third Dakar. He had finished 6th of the 2005 edition and was currently 10th overall of this edition after having won stage 5 between Nador and Er-Rachidia in Morocco.


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