Dakar 2012, Stage 2 Update

From Scotty Breauxman’s Facebook:
QUINN CODY EXCLUSIVE QUOTE:

“Today just wasn’t my day, I need to consider my self lucky that I’m still in the race. On the liaison this morning my tire blew off the bead, who ever mounted it broke the bead and kept mounting it. When it blew it also put a hole in the rear tank and jacked up the brake line, I was BUMMED and thought my rally was over, I didn’t have a support truck with in two hours of me and no cell service.

I pulled the wheel off and stood by the road (lucky I was still on the service route) and ended up flagging down the big KTM service truck and they gave me a tire and moose and even mounted it for me, those guys saved my ass! I almost missed the start of the special but managed to get there.

The special started out wide open at high elevation for the first 140k I almost never took it off the stop. Then it dropped into some rocky sandwashes and into the desert, I was riding good then the bike started cutting out, I messed with it for a while then just rode with it cutting out finally it got so bad I stopped and took a pice of fuel line and bypassed the fuel pump and it corrected the problem but still lost a bunch of time.”

Here are Quinns times at each Way Point during Stage 2, A 295 Km stage, yesterdays was much shorter.
WayPoint 1 Quinn Cody 4th place – 1 min 33 seconds behind first place leader
Way Point 2 Quinn Cody 4th place – 1 min 34 seconds behind first place leader
Way Point 3Quinn Cody 4th place – 1 min 15 seconds behind first place leader
Way Point 4  -  20th place – 11 min 29 seconds behind first place leader
Finish of Stage one – 24th place 19 min 55 seconds behind first place leader

 

Photographs from BreauxmanLIVE