In today’s stage the remaining top six drivers finished close, within slighly more than 5 minutes.
1 501 – FEDERICO VILLAGRA (ARG) 3h22m23s
2 505 – MARTIN KOLOMY (CZE) +00:02:46
3 509 – TON VAN GENUGTEN +00:02:58
4 502 – DMITRY SOTNIKOV (RUS) +00:03:38
5 510 – MARTIN MACIK (CZE) +00:04:03
6 500 – EDUARD NIKOLAEV (RUS) +00:05:25
9 531 – JAN VAN KASTEREN +00:15:56
10 516 – MAURIK VAN DEN HEUVEL +00:16:31
13 517 – GERT HUZINK +00:23:30
Dakar 2018 Stage 6: Kolomy 2nd
Video January 11: T 111 Kipper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHUackPyxXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Ht7K_v8VU
Dakar 2016 Stage 5
Nikolaev (KAMAZ) won stage 5 of the Dakar, though assisted by Martin Kolomy (Buggyra Tatra) after he flipped over. Kolomy eventually managed 6th (other sources say 7th) in the stage. Soltys on the other Buggyra-Tatra finished 15th. Overall, the Tatyras are way down. Soltys trails overall leader Nikolaev by over 5 hrs. He is 11th. Kolomy [...]
Video January 10: Tatra Museum 1959, 1996, Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4DvWdx-XA0
1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvALn7MC97w
Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI6xfN8hpEw
Dakar 2018 Stage 4: Loprais out
Ales Loprais is out of the 2018 Dakar after starting down the field in stage 4. First his powersteering missed, than his turbo broke down resulting in a power loss of 40%. and he eventually crashed his truck in the dunes.
Video: T 805 Hanzelka/ Zikmund in Japan 1954
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CaP_VFORRE
Dakar 2018 Stage 4: Kolomy 3rd, Soltys 7th
POS.
N°
EXP.
DRIVE-TEAM
MARK-MODEL
TIME
VARIATION
1
500
EDUARD NIKOLAEV
EVGENY YAKOVLEV
VLADIMIR RYBAKOV
KAMAZ – MASTER
04H 35′ 08”
2
501
FEDERICO VILLAGRA
RICARDO ADRIAN TORLASCHI
ADRIAN ARTURO YACOPINI
YPF INFINIA DIESEL TEAM DE ROOY
05H 03′ 05”
+ 00H 27′ 57”
3
505
MARTIN KOLOMY
JIRI STROSS
ROSTISLAV PLNY
TATRA BUGGYRA RACING
05H 13′ 57”
+ 00H 38′ 49”
4
511
TERUHITO SUGAWARA
MITSUGU TAKAHASHI
HINO TEAM SUGAWARA
05H 48′ 23”
+ 01H 13′ 15”
5
510
MARTIN MACIK
FRANTISEK TOMASEK
MICHAL MRKVA
BIG SHOCK RACING
05H 56′ 41”
+ 01H 21′ 33”
6
507
AIRAT MARDEEV
AYDAR BELYAEV
DMITRIY SVISTUNOV
KAMAZ [...]
Video January 9: JK 2500
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIg32m6AYPU&list=PLWvQ6BPnYnl5WgK2HgF2_GLYmMlAsFKhJ
More info: https://jalopnik.com/the-most-beautiful-car-youve-never-heard-of-the-tatra-1792315705
DAKAR 2018 Stage 3. Loprais looses time due to mechanical troubles. Kolomy made it to the finish way back and can start in Stage 4
Martin Kolomy comments: Today’s start of the stage was wonderful, but then we were hit by a technical fault on the wiring and stopped the engine for quite a long time. We could not find it, but the important thing is that we are at the finish and we can continue with a lot of [...]
DAKAR 2018 stage 3: Kolomy still stranded
News is scarce, but we hear that Kolomy has stranded with mechanical problems with the finish in sight, while Pavel Vrnak, on the fast assistance Buggyra Tatra, had to spend the night in the dunes with several other competitors. They were just stuck!
Video: https://www.rtlgp.nl/item/169801/dakar_deelnemers_bundelen_de_krachten_in_loodzware