Comments on: Alain Prost goes ice racing

By: alan

alan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:51:32 +0000

It does seem a victory for those people – and I know that in some areas that nations decide to show that they wont be defeated by them and go ahead – but it’s easy to say go ahead if it’s not youre life online – been there but that was elsewhere – and it is quite a shame for the great majority of race supporters/participants and the countries they help publicise – but it was possibly one of the organisers hardest decsions – especially so near the start?

By: Robert McKay

Robert McKay — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:26:33 +0000

God, that’s quite shocking that the Dakar has been cancelled. Obviously it was 100% the right decision, but in being able to cancel the rally it’s got to be a “victory” for the terrorists

Oh, and I know the Dakar rally isn’t high on the British media’s priorities, but I think such a story does deserve some sort of attention on the major news channels, if only because of the terrorism angle.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:19:16 +0000

As if to prove alan and Robert McKay right about politics affecting all motorsports . This is a real pity – the Dakar is a great endurance race and then some spoilsports who probably wouldn’t mind either way what happened to the race (as long as some other agenda is satisfied) go and ruin it.

By: alan

alan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:10:17 +0000

Unfortunately this year has been cancelled – due to threats by terrorists against the race and 3 french tourists being shot recently – wouldn’t want anyone killed – so what was that suggestion Robert?

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:51:22 +0000

It's been cancelled: Autosport - Dakar cancelled over terrorist fears (external)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:26:20 +0000

I think the traditional Rally isn’t properly Paris Dakar for a long time… That I recall, it became Granada Dakar for a while, and then began being called simply “Dakar Rally”… looking at Wikipedia, I saw, in fact, the last time it was Paris Dakar was in 2001, but before there were Granda Dakar years, like 1999…

Still, it would be great for the rally to go back to its traditional route…

By: Robert McKay

Robert McKay — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:34:39 +0000

Cheers alan

Damn politics gets its claws into all motorsports

By: alan

alan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:21:35 +0000

from what I found out – it was the old favourite – politics that made the orginisers move from paris to other venues through the years

By: alan

alan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:04:27 +0000

sorry robert the last time it was the paris dakar was in 2001 – not 2006 – am trying to find the reason why it moved from there

By: alan

alan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:59:48 +0000

It stopped being the paris – dakar in 2006 – thereis a great downloadable history pdf file about those years on their site – run out of ink will finish down load tommorrow – kicks of this week end robert