Dakar2012: Day 2 - The Photos |
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File under Dakar Race
Author: Mike Werner
Location: Normandy, France
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KTM  being the lead motorcycle manufacturer for the Dakar race usually has the best photos. Since about half of the motorcycle field consists of KTM, chances are that many photos will have a KTM in it.
Instead of taking the Dakar press releases you'll have seen already on many sites, I've decided to show the photos I receive from KTM and other sources. So here are Day 2 of the famous Dakar in pictures.
Enjoy. (note: Most photos can be expanded by clicking on them after the whole page has loaded)
Here is what Cyril Despres had to say about Day 2: "The first part of the special was very fast and starting 12th this morning I was a little concerned of getting stuck in everybody’s dust. As it turned out my ‘colleagues’ were all very considerate and let me through with virtually no hold up. Then I made a micro-error in the dried up bed part of the special and dropped the bike – fortunately without damage. The final part of the day was a short, 12 kilometres of so section, of dunes. By the time we got to them it was really hot, about 40 degrees, and the bike cut out a couple of times. Despite that I am pretty happy with how the day went. Apparently I still know how to turn the throttle in the right direction!"
  Johnny Aubert © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Jacek Czachor © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Marek Dabrowski © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Cyril Despres © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Cyril Despres © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Jakub Przygonski © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Pal Anders Ullevalseter © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Felipe Zanol © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Felipe Zanol © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 Felipe Zanol © Maragni M. KTM Images |
 © AP Photo/Martin Mejia |
| |  | | The route book of Spain's biker Gerard Farres is seen at his motorcycle during a stop in the second stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between Santa Rosa de la Pampa and San Rafael in Argentina, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Farres is at back. AP Photo/Martin Mejia |
 © AP Photo/Martin Mejia |
| | | | France's biker Olivier Pain, 16, second right, Spain's biker Gerard Farres, 20, second left, and Romania's biker Emanuel Gyenes, 39, left, refuel their motorcycles during a stop in the second stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between Santa Rosa de la Pampa and San Rafael in Argentina, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. AP Photo/Martin Mejia |
Via: KTM & News Yahoo & AP News
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