Barcelona Dakar 2005

We've been watching the wrap-up of the 2005 Dakar Rally on OLN for the last couple of nights. It's been amusing to watch the over-cocky Robby Gordon get put in his place. The guy thinks he's some sort of superhero because he's competed in some Baja races and won. He seriously thought he'd win the Dakar too. Well a quadruple roll beat the smugness out of him early on, and he got continually demoted and demoted by the VW team until he became second support driver. They interviewed him during the last couple of days and he was lacklustre and didn't even want to finish because he was nowhere near the top of the class.
Eventually he admitted he'd radically underestimated how difficult the Rally would be.
It was amazing to watch as he just got more and more pissed off at the fact that they'd thrown millions of dollars at the race and couldn't even break the top 10. Whoever he is (I'd never heard of him before) he proved that money + arrogance does not equal race win. I hope he doesn't sully the 2006 Dakar Rally with his arrogant attitude again. The world of Rallying could quite do without this cocksure little prick.

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