Dakar Rally big picture series

[bolus]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... rally.html

Now that's what I call a cockpit

[NathanE]

Isn't it amazing that with all that composite, the rules still require a steel roll cage.  You would have thought that they would have got round to incorporating composite crash structures a la F1 (sorry for the copyright infringement!) by now. 

[Driver]

I'd think with composites not all are created equal, and it'd be much more difficult to tell if it's put/laminated together "right". With a roll cage I'd posit they are easier to inspect.

[John H]

what are all those things in there.................looks like the ticket machine my bus conductor carries. Do u need an oyster card to get on it?????????????

[Driver]

Dual redundant GPS's, timers, radios, PCM's, etc... ? I thought somewhere I read that most of the Dakkar/SCORE vehicles have 2 of everything. Flip a switch if a primary unit packs in and get back to racing to the next pit stop.

[Alec]

[quote="Driver"]
. . . . I thought somewhere I read that most of the Dakkar/SCORE vehicles have 2 of everything. Flip a switch if a primary unit packs in and get back to racing to the next pit stop.
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Twin engines awesome.