been looking at the daker website to see how mcrae is doing but nothing what has happened to him?

At the mo macrea along with ari vatinan are both havin probs with there cars They are limping back to service


Standings after day 1
Overall Standings Car Division
1 Peterhansel/Cottret Mitsubishi Pajero
2 Biasion/ Siviero Mitsubishi Pajero -1’07’’
3Vatanen/Repo Nissan Pick-up -1’28
4 DeMevius/Guehennec BMW X5 -1’28’
5 Masuoka/ Picard Mitsubishi Pajero -1’37"
6 McRae/ Thorner Nissan Pick-up 1’55"

After stage 6
Overall Standings after stage six, Car Division
1 Massuoka/Picard Mitsubishi Pajero ‘Evo’
2 Peterhansel/Cottret Mitsubishi Pajero ‘Evo’ -6’40"
3 DeVilliers/Jordaan Nissan Pick-Up -17’50"
4 Alphand/Magne BMW X5 -18’48"
5 DeMevius/Guehennec BMW X5 -22’33"
6McRae/Thorner Nissan Pick-Up -23’11"

after stage 7
Overall Standings after stage seven : Car Division
1 Masuoka/Picard Mitsubishi Pajero ‘Evo’
2 Peterhansel/Cottret Mitsubishi ¨Pajero ‘Evo’ -11’42"
3 McRae/Thorner Nissan Pick-Up -41’29"
4 DeMevius/Guehennec BMW X5 -43’59"
5 Schlesser/Lurquin Schlesser Ford 48’04"

after stage 8
Overall Standings after stage eight, Car Division
1 Peterhansel/Cottret Mitsubishi Pajero ‘Evo’
2 DeMevius/Guehennec BMW X5 -1H 04’38"
3 Masuoka/Picard Mitsubishi Pajero ‘Evo’ -1H 22’32"
4 Schlesser/Lurquin Schlesser Buggy - 1H 29’42"
5 Alphand/Magne BMW X5 -2H 50’07

Alll ifo on macrae at the mo is not available cant seem to find much

I do know that the sweeper truck has been to em and they a waived all help from them cause if they get help they are out so i think they are still in with a chance of finishing just not gettin a podium

Also the german woman driving for VW may be disqaulified for changing her engine which is against the rules


[Edited by gossythevaleter - 1/11/2004 3:24:53 PM]

On thursday they started overall third; less than 40 minutes behind even after being stuck on a dune for 25 minutes on Wednesday, but at about half way through the stage they suffered transfer box failure, which left them with rear wheel drive, and later no drive. They ended up being towed out by a Nissan teammate.
This dropped McRae about 3 hours and meant he was pushed back to eighth overall.

The service trucks were well behind so McRae rebuilt the transfer box himself that evening, before going and doing the service checks on the other two Nissan's as well..

On Friday all started well. McRae and Vatanen were together, but Mcrae's gearbox failed at roughly the same time that Vatanen's clutch gave out, so while they were both still running they were going very slowly for about 350 km, unfortunately putting them well out of the running, and in excess of 20 hours behind overall.

It's a shame because Colin and Tina had been driving an absolute blinder before that, third overall and leading Nissan.
Proof if it was needed that Colin is not past it............



[Edited by Steve V8 - 1/11/2004 5:24:06 PM]