2010 Dakar Rally - some photographs

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[piazza]

Amazing pics,cheers mate

[CaNsA]

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[m0l0t0v]

Is it just me or is the picture taken at a weird angle?

Or are they just nuts?!

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[CaNsA]

nuts, defo nuts

[m0l0t0v]

I didn't even notice I posted the same pic as you.



Nuts. Of course...

But the angle! The ANGLE!!!
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[CaNsA]

i do that drop on me back wheel, while rollin a spliff, and txting your mom on my way to work kidda

[colin1]

[CaNsA]

[colin1]

They dont lean that far forward.

Tilt your head so your right ear is a bit nearer your shoulder, so the helicopter blades are nearer the horizontal, and you will get the true orientation of the picture.
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[Devans]

It's not vertical but it is very close, look at the tire marks an the landscape. And the dust rising.

[colin1]

tilt your head to the right, and the pic makes a lot more sense.

You cant really tell the orientation of the pic from the dust and tyre tracks.
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[Devans]

Yea i can see it the right way, using the mountain peaks helps still steep imo on sand lol.

[G]

Note the other tyre tracks – there’s a bike ones that carries on a bit further after the ridge which the car leaves. Does seem unlikely that you’d try and go up that on sand on a bike if it’s as steep as the taken-picture-angle suggests!

[Bendy]

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That is such a cool picture.

[Skudd]

I love the Dakar, missed it this year though

Have watched many a programme and the steepness of the hill ( note the one on the other side too) is quite possible. Some of the tracks they take are beyond belief, but they still take them.
as for the helicopter, that could have been doing anything to be shot like that, if you watch enough of the Dakar you will see them at an even more accute angle.
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[Thom]

Quote Picture 28's caption: "China's Wenmin Su rides his Jincheng past cheering onlookers during the 4th stage of the Dakar 2010 between Fiambala, Argentina, and Copiapo, Chile on January 5, 2010."

Poor bastard.
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[Smooth]

I saw a clip the other day of a car coming up a rise to a steep drop and then going straight over it -I bet the occupants were cr*pping themselves.
A biker was stood looking over the edge presumably deciding whether or not to go for it.
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[Smooth]

I like the racing trucks. They don't take any prisoners:

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[Thom]

that thing must have rolled, yes?
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