stage 7 - Friday 12 January 2007 | Zouérat - Atar
- Connection 4 km
- Special 542 km
- Connection 34 km
- Total 580 km
Press Releases
Coma is holding course and so is VW
The second stage in Mauritania – reduced by one-third of its length due to bad weather conditions preventing helicopters from flying and providing for the safety of the track – gave a good overview of the challenges that await pilots in the next few days. In the bikes category, Cyril Despres kept up his efforts to regain ground over Marc Coma in the overall...
Breaking news
19:51 - car - 286 vehicles made it through the special stage
At 18h30 GMT, 166 bikes, 82 cars and 38 trucks had made it through this seventh special stage and were heading to or had already arrived at the Atar bivouac, the finishing point of the 7th stage and location of the rest day.
19:28 - truck - Stage 7 summary
19:28 - car - Stage 7 summary
19:27 - bike - Stage 7 summary
18:41 - car - Monnet waiting for the broom truck
18:08 - truck - Stacey provisional winner of stage 7
Portraits of the day
Cyril Despres (FRA – KTM Gauloises – Winner of the special stage)
Of course it was a great day, but my enthusiasm is a bit undermined. Ok I gained 10 minutes back but I might have...
Giniel De Villiers (AFS – Volkswagen – Winner)
This was a very difficult stage due to the lack of visibility. I’ve never experienced such a special stage. We...
Hans Stacey (HOL - Man - Winner)
We tried to play it well because we knew since this morning that Gérard de Rooy was out. We had no reason to...
Portraits of the day
car
Albert Gryszczuk : “A Dakar car for just 16,000 Euros”
Albert Gryszczuk is on his first ever Dakar and like the vast majority of entrants his ambition is simply to get to...
Standings
Standings
Video of the day
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