Czech Aleš Loprais and his “snouted” Tatra took the lead at CP1 (km 28.7) ahead of Dutchman Pieter Versluis and his Man. There was a gap of 1′08″ between the two men, who are followed by Gerard de Rooy’s Iveco (+1′09″) and Ayrat Mardeev’s Kamaz (+1′16″). Martin Kolomý and his Tatra lie in fifth place (+1′19″), with Eduard Nikolaev in sixth (+1′22″). Tomas Vratny was 12th, Artur Ardavichus 3oth. At the wheel of the second Iveco, Hans Stacey is seventh in the provisional classification (+1′24″). Not long later, Kolomy stopped for over 10 minutes, but continued however.
At the finish, it was however Ayrat Mardeev (Kamaz) who finished 1st with Aleš Loprais (Tatra) 2nd, 10 seconds adrift. Van Vliet (MAN) came home 3rd, 21″ slower than today’s winner. Arthur Ardavichus finished 16th.
| Pos. |
N° |
Nom |
Heures |
Temps |
écart |
|
503 |
|
18:37:52 |
02:46:52 |
- |
|
504 |
|
18:40:02 |
02:47:02 |
00:00:10 |
|
508 |
|
18:48:13 |
02:47:13 |
00:00:21 |
|
501 |
|
18:35:25 |
02:48:25 |
00:01:33 |
|
500 |
|
18:35:52 |
02:50:52 |
00:04:00 |
|
516 |
|
19:03:48 |
02:53:48 |
00:06:56 |
|
545 |
|
19:09:27 |
02:53:57 |
00:07:05 |
|
507 |
|
18:54:01 |
02:55:01 |
00:08:09 |
|
513 |
|
19:03:10 |
02:56:10 |
00:09:18 |
|
511 |
|
19:02:23 |
02:57:23 |
00:10:31 |
|
529 |
|
19:15:31 |
02:57:31 |
00:10:39 |
|
520 |
|
19:11:48 |
02:58:18 |
00:11:26 |
|
509 |
|
19:02:13 |
02:59:13 |
00:12:21 |
|
514 |
|
19:07:45 |
02:59:45 |
00:12:53 |
|
510 |
|
19:05:41 |
03:01:41 |
00:14:49 |
|
542 |
|
19:27:14 |
03:03:14 |
00:16:22 |
|
506 |
|
19:01:08 |
03:04:08 |
00:17:16 |
|
549 |
|
19:32:54 |
03:05:54 |
00:19:02 |
|
522 |
|
19:21:40 |
03:07:10 |
00:20:18 |
|
525 |
|
19:24:30 |
03:08:30 |
00:21:38 |
|
517 |
|
19:19:46 |
03:08:46 |
00:21:54 |
|
548 |
|
19:35:34 |
03:09:04 |
00:22:12 |
|
518 |
|
19:21:14 |
03:09:14 |
00:22:22 |
|
534 |
|
19:31:09 |
03:10:39 |
00:23:47 |
|
535 |
|
19:33:20 |
03:12:20 |
00:25:28 |
|
538 |
|
19:35:19 |
03:13:19 |
00:26:27 |
|
512 |
|
19:19:58 |
03:13:58 |
00:27:06 |
|
523 |
|
19:31:20 |
03:16:20 |
00:29:28 |
|
515 |
|
19:28:21 |
03:19:21 |
00:32:29 |
|
540 |
|
19:42:27 |
03:19:27 |
00:32:35 |
|
521 |
|
19:37:00 |
03:23:00 |
00:36:08 |
|
502 |
|
19:12:01 |
03:23:01 |
00:36:09 |
|
539 |
|
19:48:17 |
03:25:47 |
00:38:55 |
|
527 |
|
19:42:58 |
03:25:58 |
00:39:06 |
|
550 |
|
19:54:58 |
03:27:28 |
00:40:36 |
|
531 |
|
19:46:47 |
03:27:47 |
00:40:55 |
|
505 |
|
19:23:36 |
03:28:36 |
00:41:44 |
|
533 |
|
19:55:13 |
03:30:58 |
00:44:06 |
|
526 |
|
19:47:34 |
03:31:04 |
00:44:12 |
|
541 |
|
19:57:48 |
03:34:18 |
00:47:26 |
|
519 |
|
19:51:41 |
03:38:41 |
00:51:49 |
NEWSLETTER INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM
Here we go, 2014 Dakar Rally starts!
End of waiting, start of the first stage of the Dakar Rally is scheduled for today. The way from Rosario to San Luis with the liaison section of 629 km and the special stage of 180 km is waiting for the competitors.
Even before the start the Dakar Rally showed one of its favourite pitfalls – unpredictable weather. Starting point Rosario, the birthplace of the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, was exposed to the very hot weather and drought for several weeks. With the arrival of the first participants, however, came the storm. Planes with some teams even had to change the destination airport at the last moment due to weather. However, though lightning, thunder and rain was the pre race program almost perfectly maintained.
loprais uvodni ceremonial
As the Argentine double winner in the quads category Marcos Patronelli pointed out, the race showed its true colours even before the start. “It will be a very challenging Dakar Rally,” said Patronelli. And the race manager Etienne Lavigne confirmed his words: “It will be the most difficult Dakar after the moving to the South America.” Trucks must overcome the route of 5213 measured km, motorcycles 5228 km and cars 5522 km. But the grey sky ceded its place to brilliant sunlight at the time of the parade after the scrutineering and the audience could enjoy the arrival of the big favourites of the 36th year.
Today will fans watch the eager racers at the track. The narrow tracks will require the utmost vigilance from the start. Readiness of the crews will examine even the rocky stretches and jumps. There will be no time to familiarize with the terrain – everyone knows that the total placement may be decided at any time.
Similar feelings of respect for the competition as had our pilot yesterday had even the biggest rivals of Aleš. “Last time I won, but I am not concerned with previous years now. Repeat the triumph is much more difficult,” admitted Eduard Nikolaev from Kamaz. “Kamaz has five fast trucks and five good racers. And there are the others,” pointed out Gerard de Rooy, the other favourite of trucks category and added: “We will go from the start as good as we can and at the rest day we will look how it is going. But we have to think of everything. Failure or defect may cost us the race.”
We would like to conclude today’s news with the Wish to the 504 crew from Mr Miroslav Popelka from Prostějov:
“Good afternoon, starting tomorrow, I will once again sit at the computer long into the night and monitor on the map movement of the Queen 69 at each stage and push you by the will-power to the finish. Whether all medical, technical and other problems avoid you. Overcome all obstacles, so we can celebrate your success after the final stage. I wish this to you, let the hard work and efforts finally fully return in the toughest competition in the world. I wish you solid back (watch out for jumps) and good luck for the whole route!”
Thank you all so much for all the wishes that came to the whole team!
NEWSLETTER INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM
Here we go, 2014 Dakar Rally starts!
End of waiting, start of the first stage of the Dakar Rally is scheduled for today. The way from Rosario to San Luis with the liaison section of 629 km and the special stage of 180 km is waiting for the competitors.
Even before the start the Dakar Rally showed one of its favourite pitfalls – unpredictable weather. Starting point Rosario, the birthplace of the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, was exposed to the very hot weather and drought for several weeks. With the arrival of the first participants, however, came the storm. Planes with some teams even had to change the destination airport at the last moment due to weather. However, though lightning, thunder and rain was the pre race program almost perfectly maintained.
loprais uvodni ceremonial
As the Argentine double winner in the quads category Marcos Patronelli pointed out, the race showed its true colours even before the start. “It will be a very challenging Dakar Rally,” said Patronelli. And the race manager Etienne Lavigne confirmed his words: “It will be the most difficult Dakar after the moving to the South America.” Trucks must overcome the route of 5213 measured km, motorcycles 5228 km and cars 5522 km. But the grey sky ceded its place to brilliant sunlight at the time of the parade after the scrutineering and the audience could enjoy the arrival of the big favourites of the 36th year.
Today will fans watch the eager racers at the track. The narrow tracks will require the utmost vigilance from the start. Readiness of the crews will examine even the rocky stretches and jumps. There will be no time to familiarize with the terrain – everyone knows that the total placement may be decided at any time.
Similar feelings of respect for the competition as had our pilot yesterday had even the biggest rivals of Aleš. “Last time I won, but I am not concerned with previous years now. Repeat the triumph is much more difficult,” admitted Eduard Nikolaev from Kamaz. “Kamaz has five fast trucks and five good racers. And there are the others,” pointed out Gerard de Rooy, the other favourite of trucks category and added: “We will go from the start as good as we can and at the rest day we will look how it is going. But we have to think of everything. Failure or defect may cost us the race.”
We would like to conclude today’s news with the Wish to the 504 crew from Mr Miroslav Popelka from Prostějov:
“Good afternoon, starting tomorrow, I will once again sit at the computer long into the night and monitor on the map movement of the Queen 69 at each stage and push you by the will-power to the finish. Whether all medical, technical and other problems avoid you. Overcome all obstacles, so we can celebrate your success after the final stage. I wish this to you, let the hard work and efforts finally fully return in the toughest competition in the world. I wish you solid back (watch out for jumps) and good luck for the whole route!”
Thank you all so much for all the wishes that came to the whole team!
TALOSA s.r.o. is a flexible and idependent company, situated in the truck production area of TATRA a.s. in Kopřivnice (Czech Republic), where the first automobile was built in 1898. TALOSA s.r.o. was founded in 1995 as a 100% subsidiary company of TATRA a.s. and was originaly focused only on logistics of the parent company. After 100 years of continuous car production, TATRA stopped the car production line in 1998 and TALOSA s.r.o. took over part of the engine manufacturing technology and their highly qualified engine specialists. TALOSA s.r.o. gradualy became a reliable manufacturer of prototype parts of engines, gear-boxes, differentials, wheel units and complete engines TATRA V8 for the motocross.
The manufacturing of both protoype parts and whole vehicle propulsion units is now the core activity of the company. TALOSA s.r.o. also runs an authorised repairshop of TATRA trucks which conducts general maintenance of older vehicles and special upgrades and adjustments to the new ones as per the manufacturer’s guidelines.
The company is owned by a sole owner with long experience in the automobile industry.
The Talosa company, a full subsidiary of Tatra, has built Martin Kolomy’s Tatra. But they have done more……..
TALOSA s.r.o. is a flexible and idependent company, situated in the truck production area of TATRA a.s. in Kopřivnice (Czech Republic), where the first automobile was built in 1898. TALOSA s.r.o. was founded in 1995 as a 100% subsidiary company of TATRA a.s. and was originaly focused only on logistics of the parent company. After 100 years of continuous car production, TATRA stopped the car production line in 1998 and TALOSA s.r.o. took over part of the engine manufacturing technology and their highly qualified engine specialists. TALOSA s.r.o. gradualy became a reliable manufacturer of prototype parts of engines, gear-boxes, differentials, wheel units and complete engines TATRA V8 for the motocross.
The manufacturing of both protoype parts and whole vehicle propulsion units is now the core activity of the company. TALOSA s.r.o. also runs an authorised repairshop of TATRA trucks which conducts general maintenance of older vehicles and special upgrades and adjustments to the new ones as per the manufacturer’s guidelines.
The company is owned by a sole owner with long experience in the automobile industry.
Vladimir Chagin, the undisputed Tsar of the Dakar
By Tim Sturtridge on 4 January 2014 in Rally Raid
We get inside the grill of the most successful single category pilot in the history of the Dakar.
RedBull.com: It was a job well done last time out with three Kamaz trucks on the podium, are you confident of your drivers achieving the same result in 2014?
Vladimir Chagin: I was very satisfied to see our drivers winning all three places on the podium. We even surprised ourselves with this achievement but we soon turned our focus to next year. We want to prove that the results last time out did not come by accident and that our new generation of drivers can be even more successful than the last. I have great respect for our competitors such as Tatra and Iveco and I’m fully aware that they will have been working as hard as we have in preparation for the 2014 Dakar. We’re expecting a very interesting race and we will do our best to delight our fans once again.
Vladimir Chagin, the undisputed Tsar of the Dakar
By Tim Sturtridge on 4 January 2014 in Rally Raid
We get inside the grill of the most successful single category pilot in the history of the Dakar.
RedBull.com: It was a job well done last time out with three Kamaz trucks on the podium, are you confident of your drivers achieving the same result in 2014?
Vladimir Chagin: I was very satisfied to see our drivers winning all three places on the podium. We even surprised ourselves with this achievement but we soon turned our focus to next year. We want to prove that the results last time out did not come by accident and that our new generation of drivers can be even more successful than the last. I have great respect for our competitors such as Tatra and Iveco and I’m fully aware that they will have been working as hard as we have in preparation for the 2014 Dakar. We’re expecting a very interesting race and we will do our best to delight our fans once again.
No. 575 – Robert Kasak (SVK) / Chris Watman
Team: RallyOz
Machine: Tatra
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The very last competitive vehicle to set off from the line on day one is the RallyOz team’s entry, with Slovakia’s Robert Kasak behind the wheel, joined by Australian riding mechanic and navigator Chris Watman.
Rally Dakar before the start on Sunday
First reports from our team and Aleš Loprais from the place of the race are good:
“Greetings to all from the South America. We are all together again and both Tatra have passed the scrutineering. We have amazing designed helmets from our fan from the Netherland. Ha made the helmets to the whole crew, we took them on the place of the race. The mood is good and the competition is great. I feel respect for all…”
Before the start of this 36th year of the Dakar Rally we bring some facts and points of interest.
Time and place: January 5 – 18, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile
Official website: www.dakar.com
Starting point: Rosario in Argentina
Finishing place: Valparaiso in Chile
Number of stages: 13
Mileage: 9374 km automobiles, 8734 km motorcycles, 9188 km trucks
First year: 1979
Most wins: Stéphane Peterhansel (France) – 11
Number of crews: 438 from 52 countries
Tge route of the marathon race originally ran from Paris to Dakar in Senegal, from the 90th in the last century it variously changed. In 2008 the race was cancelled because od the threat of terrorist attacks, in 2009 it moved to the South America.
Defending the victory from the last year:
Cars: Stéphane Peterhansel (France/Mini)
Motorcycles: Cyril Despres (France/KTM)
Quads: Marcos Patronelli (Argentina/Yamaha)
Trucks: Eduard Nikolaev (Russia/Kamaz)
Overview of the Czech and Czechoslovak best overall position:
1st place (7):
1988 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Mück (trucks)
1994 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Kalina (trucks)
1995 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Tomeček (trucks)
1998 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Čermák (trucks)
1999 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Kalina (trucks)
2001 – Karel Loprais/Hamerla/Kalina (trucks)
2009 – Josef Macháček (quads)
2nd place (6):
1987 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Krpec (trucks)
1988 – Jiří Moskal/Vojtíšek/Záleský (trucks)
1996 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Tomeček (trucks)
2000 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Gilar (trucks)
2002 – Karel Loprais/Hamerla/Kalina (trucks)
2003 – Tomáš Tomeček/De Azevedo/Martinec (trucks)
3rd place (8):
1987 – Jiří Moskal/Joklík/Záleský (trucks)
1990 – Zdeněk Kahánek/Krpec/Havlík (trucks)
1992 – Karel Loprais/Stachura/Kalina (trucks)
1995 – Vlastimil Buchtyár/Kořený/Krpec (trucks y)
1996 – Ladislav Fajtl/Janoušek/Wurst (trucks)
1998 – Milan Kořený/Lamač/Kahánek (trucks)
1999 – Tomáš Tomeček/De Azevedo/Neubarthová (trucks)
2007 – Aleš Loprais/Gilar (trucks)
Josef Macháček won even in 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007, when the quads category was assessed only in the context of motorcycles.
Interest for this year’s race route covers the section in Bolivia, which would introduce the participants to the largest salt plain in the world – Salar de Uyuni. Although organizers plan only crossing of the motorcycles and quads (cars and trucks will go a different route), Aymara Indians want to block the race. They fear that the rubbish will remain on the salt plain after the participants and cars will damage the snow-white glossy surface. In contrast, Bolivian president Evo Morales, Aymara himself, hopes that the Dakar Rally will attract the world’s attention to this area and encourage tourism. The salt plain is situated at an altitude of 3600 meters and covers and area of more than 11 000 square kilometres. In November it always becomes a roost of South American flamingos. During the Bolivian section there is rain expected in this area which will turn a crust on the surface to the endless mirror. At the same time, however, increases the danger that the surface will break under the heavier cars. “There is only one route for everyone, and it doesn’t allow the passage of cars and trucks,” said the head of the Dakar Rallly Etienne Lavigne on the official website of the race.
We wish you a nice weekend. Count on with us hours remaining until the heaviest and the most amazing off-road race break out.
The Slovak Armed Forces completed an initial phase of testing with the VYVOJ Martin joint stock company’s new Tatrapan 8×8 Container Carrier (CC) truck jointly with the manufacturer in late November.
The company began development of the 8×8 Tatrapan in 2009 using private company funding, but closely targeting the Slovak Armed Forces’ MOKYS communication system programme.
Construction began at the company’s headquarters in Martin in early 2012, with developer and builder trials in January 2013, and the final prototype design is a universal armoured platform capable of carrying ISO-1C and ISO-1D containers across all terrain types in a combat environment, according to VYVOJ Martin.
It is based on a Tatra T815-7 four-axle chassis, which is bought directly from the Czech manufacturer and outfitted with an armoured cab, container interfaces and handling system by VYVOJ Martin.
http://www.janes.com/article/31211/slovakia-trials-new-tatrapan-armoured-container-carrier-vehicle
2.1.2014
NEWSLETTER INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM
New Year’s wishes and the road to Dakar 2014 launched
We wish you all a good technique, good quality fuel and the most importantly the right people in your team and surroundings to the 2014 year. We believe that not only the fun to drive will come, but also a chance to win all the chosen categories and in for you important races.
We have already started the journey to the most important in this year. The team flew to the South America in two groups. The majority hit the road through London and Vienna to Buenos Aires from the garage in Frenštát at noon on the last day of last year. After arrival they will go by bus to the port to pick up the technique and then they will move it to the start of the race in Rosario. All the scrutineering and the opening ceremony will take place in Rosario. The second group, including the Queen 69 and Princess crew is departing Vienna today and will go directly to the starting point.
The philosophy of extreme off-road race 2014 Rally Dakar will soon be fulfil. Competitors will have to drive nearly 5000 km in the special stages this year, which is the highest number for almost a decade. The participants will also have to count with diversity of terrain.
David Castera, the sports director of the Dakar commented the upcoming rally:
“We know that cumulative fatigue is one of the most complex elements to master on the Dakar. With an average of 50 additional kilometres to cover each day compared to last year, we have increased the degree of difficulty by one or two levels: this extra distance will affect everyone! For motorcycle and quad bikes, there will also be two marathon stages, which will oblige their riders to pace themselves and take good care of their vehicles. This is the essence of the off-road races.”
And we will bring you again the fresh news and comments. The next will cover the race route and the scrutineering of the Queen 69 and Princess that will come in a few days. But so far we are going and look forward. We will accept with honour and humbly the greatest challenge in the category of off-road races. We will be glad if you will be there again and intensively with us!
