First stage Dakar 2016 cancelled due to severe weather events [updated]
Posted on 03-01-2016 at 14:55 by Dizono – 18 Comments”
It’s not during the monsterrally through the desert.
The prologue is halfway ceased due to a serious accident in which eventually 11 people were injured, now also shows the first real stage, no passage can be found here. Cause is the weather that currently Argentina infests. The start was twice postponed and postponed finally adjustment, as it seems.
The participants will be on the public roads in convoy to the site of the finish line drive, where they, in principle, tomorrow will be launched during the second stage.
Update: Just in our mailbox, message from Erik van Loon:
Van Loon expects more cancellations
On the way to the start of the first stage of the Dakar 2016 were Erik van Loon and Wouter Rosegaar message: the test is canceled. Severe weather changed the environment between Rosario and Cordoba, in an area of water. “It seems the flood here,” says Van Loon. “Everything is blank.”
Van Loon feared that in the coming days even more stages will be shortened or cancelled. The weather forecasts are bar and angry. “We saw it coming. The messages about flooding in the north of Argentina, promised little good. When it was here this morning began to stortregenen, and storms, we said all out against each other that it would not go. The helicopters can’t fly in this weather and the gravelpaden of the special change in and slid up the slippery mud. I understand very well that the organization everything is cancelled, but I find it a pity. We would prefer to just drive. See but what is there on the finish line. It is cross country, then you should in all circumstances be able to drive.”
On the other hand: even on the road, driving is difficult due to the heavy rainfall. “The cars are made to be in the desert to drive, not so much water. They are not against it. We see here also all along the side. I am very curious to see what the next few days are going to happen. It doesn’t look good, and the organization will still have to. This is a very special Dakar.”
The suffering is probably not ago…