Dakar

greyrigg · Post by **greyrigg** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:24 pm

A victory for terrorists

At least with the event cancelled I'll get to bed early instead of watching Eurosport.

What a nightmare for everyone involved. All that preparation and work for nothing.

It truly is a f**k*d up world.

Malcolm

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:01 pm

Gutted about this. It's always a part of new year telly

I feel for the African countries and the privateers who might now have to pay all their sponsorship back, even though they've spent it. It would have been good if the organisers had run the Lisbon stages then cancelled it.

M Blur · Post by **M Blur** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:35 pm

what's even sadder is to think CM would have been starting in this event...

but a chance at least to see vintage footage on motorsTV

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:34 pm

M Blur wrote:what's even sadder is to think CM would have been starting in this event...

His BMW team was still sporting his name on the A pillar as sponsorship

jason · Post by **jason** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:31 pm

Great shame, fantastic event. Wonder why the decision was taken at the 11th hour, when all teams/drivers/riders had already assembled etc?

....like already said, what a f***ed up world

Matelotman · Post by **Matelotman** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:20 pm

jasonliddell wrote:Great shame, fantastic event. Wonder why the decision was taken at the 11th hour, when all teams/drivers/riders had already assembled etc?

....like already said, what a f***ed up world

The French tourists were only killed on the 24th Dec, so I suppose the governments would need a bit of head scratching to see if there was a plan B before committing to a decision.

jason · Post by **jason** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:46 pm

Matelotman wrote:
jasonliddell wrote:Great shame, fantastic event. Wonder why the decision was taken at the 11th hour, when all teams/drivers/riders had already assembled etc?

....like already said, what a f***ed up world
The French tourists were only killed on the 24th Dec, so I suppose the governments would need a bit of head scratching to see if there was a plan B before committing to a decision.

Ah... I'd missed that detail.

Matelotman · Post by **Matelotman** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:51 pm

jasonliddell wrote:
Matelotman wrote:
jasonliddell wrote:Great shame, fantastic event. Wonder why the decision was taken at the 11th hour, when all teams/drivers/riders had already assembled etc?

....like already said, what a f***ed up world
The French tourists were only killed on the 24th Dec, so I suppose the governments would need a bit of head scratching to see if there was a plan B before committing to a decision.
Ah... I'd missed that detail.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 171426.stm

tut · Post by **tut** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:00 pm

What a bunch of pathetic organisers...............

The whole point of the war against terrorists is that you do not acknowledge their existence, their demands or allow them to disrupt society. Because that is exactly what they want, and although it can cost lives in the short term, there is no alternative.

Were the entrants asked if they wanted to cancel? Almost certainly not.

The average reply would have been "how are they going to catch us?"

As has already been pointed out, a victory for the terrorists, and a bitter taste for the rest of us.

tut

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:04 pm

tut wrote:What a bunch of pathetic organisers...............

The whole point of the war against terrorists is that you do not acknowledge their existence, their demands or allow them to disrupt society. Because that is exactly what they want, and although it can cost lives in the short term, there is no alternative.

Were the entrants asked if they wanted to cancel? Almost certainly not.

The average reply would have been "how are they going to catch us?"

As has already been pointed out, a victory for the terrorists, and a bitter taste for the rest of us.

tut

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:54 pm

tut wrote:What a bunch of pathetic organisers...............

The whole point of the war against terrorists is that you do not acknowledge their existence, their demands or allow them to disrupt society. Because that is exactly what they want, and although it can cost lives in the short term, there is no alternative.

Were the entrants asked if they wanted to cancel? Almost certainly not.

The average reply would have been "how are they going to catch us?"

As has already been pointed out, a victory for the terrorists, and a bitter taste for the rest of us.

tut

I think for most of the bike nutters if you said "and this year there will be guys shooting at you with machine guns while you skim over a rock covered desert track at over 100mph" they would probably turn round and go

like it makes a difference

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:30 am

Now there is an idea

one of those spinny round gun mount things on the top

hendeg · Post by **hendeg** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:43 am

There were a group of Scots taking part... http://www.scotlandtodakar.com/index.html.

I can't imagine how much prep and money must have gone into it. Gutting!