Dakar Live Tracking

News about sidecars competing in the Dakar Rally and other enduro related items

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WildTurkeyWay
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Dakar Live Tracking

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If you have tried to track the competitors in the Dakar using the dakar.com tracking page, you may have had the same problem I did. After spending a good part of the night trying to figure out why there were no competitors on the course, I finally went to bed exhausted.

In the morning, I could see most of the motorcycles on course. It turns out that the tracking page uses your computer time to simulate "LIVE" coverage. Once I changed my computer time to GMT (Lisbon time) and re-started the tracking page, it showed all the competitors finished, as it should at 5pm. Fortunately the page provides a replay feature that allowed me to simulate the battle of the sidecars.

Whooda thunk!

Hope you all can now enjoy the Dakar live!

Cheers,
Eric Whitney
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