NASCART-TV (Speed channel) apparently missed out. OLN is running Dakar coverage Sat/Sun/...?
And late at night as well. Oh well, better than not at all. It's still one of the worlds great events.
Absolutely! I was looking for it on TV but haven't seen anything so far. Anybody? All I heard was that yet again one of the motorcycle guys got killed. It was supposed to be his last race. Well, now it is. Sadly.
OLN is another DirecTV channel -- 609 or something like that. Coverage at 9 or 9:30 pm and again 3 hours later. They've only done the first day so far. Alas, their coverage is somewhat tunnel visioned toward the US (Red Bull, VW) entries. And they don't have that wollok theme song, either.
Yes, Fabrizio Meoni has died of a heart attack after crashing on the 11th stage. A helicopter was sent to his location and upon arrival paramedics found his heart had stopped beating. He had a wife and two childern. He is also the 11th motorcyclist to die in the 27 year old Dakar Rally, there have been 22 deaths in total. Spanish motorcyclist Jose Manuel Perez also died in the Dakar, he crashed on Thursday Jan. 6 and died on Monday Jan. 10. He had a kidney and his spleen removed in Senegalese then was transferred back to intensive care in Alicante. Perez was married with two children and was competing in his fourth Dakar Rally. Richard Sainct also died in Sept. 04 in Egypt. He was competing in the Rallye des Pharaons. No one was able to revive him. He was a 3 time winner of the Dakar rally who leaves behind a wife and two children.
DirectTV Channel 608 OLN Outdoor Life Network EST 1/22/2005 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/23/2005 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/24/2005 12:30 AM - 1:30 AM DAKAR RALLY 1/24/2005 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/25/2005 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM DAKAR RALLY 1/25/2005 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/26/2005 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM DAKAR RALLY 1/26/2005 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/27/2005 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM DAKAR RALLY 1/29/2005 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/29/2005 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/29/2005 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/29/2005 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 1/29/2005 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM DAKAR RALLY 2/22/2005 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM DAKAR RALLY
In Canada OLN Canada will be providing coverage in the form of five 1-hour episodes, beginning on January 22nd. The complete schedule is as follows (please continue to check local listings as all times are subject to change): January 22 at 10 pm ET (encore at 12 midnight ET) January 23 at 10 pm ET (encore at 12 midnight ET) January 24 at 10 pm ET (encore at 12 midnight ET) January 25 at 10 pm ET (encore at 12 midnight ET) January 26 at 10 pm ET (encore at 12 midnight ET) I remember Speed having like 5 hours a day in the evening plus a summary of an hour late at night.
Thanks guys for posting all of this. I would have never checked OLN for anything racing related but thanks to you guys I was able to watch it last night (and 2nd part tonight). I agree, way too much focused on the also-run Americans. Who cares? And they are really very proud of that logo, which lasts forever and shows up every five seconds. Oh well, complaints, complaints. 62 250 GTO: Thanks for your insights. I haven't followed Paris-Dakar for some years, so what happened to it? This obviously has a slightly different name and started out in Barcelona (not that it really mattered). I remember the original inventor of the Paris-Dakar rally died in a helicopter crash in the rally, is that why they changed the name etc?
Dakar is without a doubt one of the coolest races in the world. I'd add to the list the Isle of Man TT and the Whitbread (Volvo) around the world yacht race. OLN's coverage has been good, and thank god somebody is showing it, but SPEED did a better job last year. Either way, the footage is spectacular. I'd love for a DVD to be available. I checked the site and all they have a region 2, French language version of the 2004 event, not very useful.
mais mon frachais est tres mal, good point about the region code though, there are tons of de/encrypters out there.
Mon francais suffit pour comprendre. You probably also have to deal with SECAM (France!) vs NTSC, but there are ways around that too. How do I know? "La Passione" ordered from Amazon UK.
LOL Sylvia Kristel, passion of my high school dreams... Nah, "La Passione" is actually a great little flick about a fictional poor British kid who grows up living the Ferrari dream to become a millionaire and realize his passion. Has amazing footage of Chris Rea's 156 Sharknose F1 replica and other Ferraris. There is one hilarious scene where he gets the rights to a long gone Ferrari. He pays gazillions of bucks and flies to see the "car". They open the garage door and you see a rusty pile of "junk". Anybody who restored a famous Ferrari probably feels an instant bond with that scene. Or in other words: A movie important enough to me to go through the technical pain of transferring from different formats etc...Just like an Emanuelle in Bangkok movie.
