From: tafi3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Deeley)
Subject: PARIS-DAKAR BULLETIN JAN 11th.
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:00:04 GMT

	Thanks for all the encouraging email, its nice to know someone
is reading all of this!!
	As mentioned last time, what should of been SS4 was changed to a
liason section to allow for the chaos of SS3. Even so some 20 crews went
OTL on this section & hence didn't start SS5 on Friday. This was the
550km (344 miles in real money), Bordj Omar Driss - Tamanrasset stage.
Not much of note happened on this stage, Charbonnier on his privately
entered Yamaha had a stoating stage, winning the stage in an effort to
claw back the 8 HOUR penalty he had been given for missing a passage
check on an earlier stage.

	Overall classification after SS5.
cars.
	1.Saby/Serieys		Mitsubishi Pajero
	2.Lartigue/Perin	Citroen ZX Rallye Raid
	3.Salonen/Gallagher	Cit
	4.Shinozuka/Magne	Mits
	5.Auriol/Picard		Cit

bikes
	1.Peterhansel		Yamaha YZE 850T
	2.Charbonnier		Yam
	3.Kolberg		Honda
	4.Montebelli		Kawasaki
	5.Brucy			Honda

 	SS6 was the longest stage of the event, a staggering 801km (501
miles) from Tamanrasset - Adrar, with 392km liason that makes 1192km for
the day! The attrition rate was quite high, after this stage there were
only 15 bikes left! Of the notable retirees was Salonen/Gallagher in
their works Citroen, they had a very heavy landing after a huge jump
which navigator Fred Gallagher hadn't braced himself for, the impact
shattered Freds 11th vertebrae which obviously put them out of the
rally. Fred was helicoptered back to France where he is doing fine. This
put out the highest placed Brit unfortunately :( The monstrous Perlini
truck is still storming its way across the desert. We also have the
strange situation where a lot of the service trucks are actually in
front of the cars that they are supposed to be servicing! Citroen have
now lost all of their fast support/service cars, unfortunately their
trucks are slow, so they are having to wait for quite some time at
service areas for the crews to catch up.

	Overall classification after SS6
cars
	1.Saby/Serieys		Mits
	2.Lartigue/Perin	Cit
	3.Shinozuka/Magne	Mits
	4.Auriol/Picard		Cit
	5.Servia/Puig		Lada Samara
bikes
	1.Peterhansel		Yam
	2.Charbonnier		Yam
	3.Riba			K2
	4.Kolberg		Honda(?)
	5.Fernandes		Suzuki

	I should point out that the Servia/Puig car is in fact a Porsche
959 based rallye-raid special, with no Lada parts on it at all, it
vaguely resembles a Samara & is sponsored by Lada cars, just thought you
should know before you all rush to your nearest Lada dealer with wads of
cash :)
	Ex sports car racer Jean Louis Schlesser is highest placed 2
wheel drive car, just outside the top 15, he is also driving solo, yes
he has no navigator, he must be insane. Come to think of it, having seen
him drive cars at Le Mans, he is insane :)
	As of last night, Lartigue/Perin has been excluded for illegal
servicing, the Citroen team have appealed, this was right at the end of
the report so details are a bit short, watch this space!
	To the person who wrote to the net about classes, (sorry losty
your name) this is as I understand it:

	T3. Rallye-Raid prototypes, more or less anything goes.
	T2. Modified production based cars.
	T1. Production cars with only safety modification (cages etc).

	Watch this space,

				Ian.

-- 

	Ian Deeley
	School of Engineering		"...Whatever you do will be
	University of Sussex		insignificant, but its very