Some cracking Dakar pics

[papercup]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/dakar_ral...

Put in General so more people see them

I am loving Number 24...

[tjg123]

brilliant pictures

[Jez64]

Liking the bike shots

[cailean]

fantastic shots

[Kinky]

Some of the best photos I've ever seen

[Nicol@]

Some fantastic pictures in there. It really captures the rally (even the not so nice photos).

[skeggysteve]

Some very good photos there - thanks for posting the link.

No. 2 - Motor sport budgets look to be in good health!

No. 10 - Sorry but not the sort of picture I want to see.

No. 12 - Please tell me that the camera was tilted/angled - thats one hell of a downhill section!

No. 24 - Supermarket rolls!

[MATT427]

number 12 must be tilted or something no way is it that steep!!!

[Garett]

Wow, stunning pictures, I want an off road lorry!

[ceriw]

MATT427 said:

number 12 must be tilted or something no way is it that steep!!!

well assuming the helicopter is on the level- tilt the screen on your pc. still looks incredible! worse even....
stunning photography.

[bosshog]

blimey! how scary would that be going down that!

[ceriw]

bosshog said:

blimey! how scary would that be going down that!

and then on a motorbike as well????? lordy...was that the only route down?

Edited by ceriw on Tuesday 12th January 06:52

[mpm1987]

Awesome pics!

Must be an epic Journey.

[andy_s]

I watched the stage last night - impressive stuff - I did years of sand driving around the Sahara in a Toyota Landcruiser which was great fun and it's surprising what you can do but the Dakar vehicles are on another scale completely.

[Snoop Bagg]

Excellent, but I still thinks quads aren't hardcore like the bikes!

[Lancs Jag Boy]

Snoop Bagg said:

Excellent, but I still thinks quads aren't hardcore like the bikes!

Well, you know what to do then don't you? Get on ye bike and get down to South America and tell the quad bike drivers that they aren't hardcore covering only 9000 km on these softy quad things.
Then duck.

[joe_90]

Excellent pictures.

Shame the coverage is ste (and mainly just the tv shows sponsors cars)

[FraserLFA]

I think it is tilted. Look at the helichopter in the background. At an angle as well

Edited by FraserLFA on Tuesday 12th January 09:50

[cptsideways]

No pics of the Hummer airbourne, that thing is simply mega to watch

[neil_bolton]

FraserLFA said:

I think it is tilted. Look at the helichopter in the background. At an angle as well

Edited by FraserLFA on Tuesday 12th January 09:50

Choppers have to tilt forwards like that in order to gain speed quickly; the pitch of the blades whilst the chopper is level is not enough to gain speed.

I'd say that pic was spot on.

Another way to verify this picture is to look at the route across the top. If the pic was tilted, that would mean that the route across the top was at 45 degrees, and that doesn't make any sense.

As it is, it's clear they drive across the top, find the route down and then pray.

Edited by neil_bolton on Tuesday 12th January 10:07