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I've been watching he Dakar Rally every night when it comes on at 2:00 AM on NBC Sports Channel. Only because Robby Gordon is racing. Right now he is 23rd 6 hours behind. (He crashed after stage 4 and lost 5 hours.)

In the Bikes Matt Caseil? is 7th Overall 20 minutes behind.

But so far in one week their has been 3rd deaths. A Taxi driver and the Passenger went head on into a Transport Truck and recently Thomas Bourgin was in a transport stage to the start of the Time event when he went head on into a Police car.

RIP Thomas Bourgin 1987-2013

Gordon finished 4th today. 19th overall.

Dakar is over.

For the Bikes
Cyril Despres from FRA won his 5th Dakar Rally Tittle
2nd was Ruben Faria from PUR +10:43 behind
3rd was Francisco Lopez from Chi +18:48 behind

American Kurt Caselli won stage 7 and stage 11 he Finished 31st +6:03:40 behind
American John Campbell Finished 40th +8:11:40 behind

For the Car's
Stephane Peterhansel from FRA won his 5th Dakar Rally Tittle
2nd was Giniel De Villiers from RSA +42:22 behind.
3rd was Leonid Novitskiy from RUS +1:28:22 behind.

American Robby Gordon Finished in the top five in the first stage and then in stage two got stuck finishing 20th. In stage three he finished in the top five then in stage four he flipped his Speed Hummer and lost 5 hours. Since then he has finished in the top 5 in 8 straight stages. winning two of them. He finished 14th overall. +5:38:15 behind. Take away the 5 hours after the crash and he would have finished 2nd overall.

For the Quads
Marcos Patronelli from ARG won his 2nd Dakar Rally Tittle
2nd was Ignacio Nicolas Casale from CHI +1:50:35 behind
3rd was Rafal Sonik from POL 3:16:49 behind.

For the Trucks
Eduard Nikolave from RUS won his first Dakar Rally Tittle
2nd was Ayrat Mardeev from RUS +37:10 behind
3rd was Andrey Karginov from Rus +37:57 behind