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| Button interested in contesting Dakar; When he retires from F1 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 16 2010, 10:49 PM (227 Views) | |
| Steelstallions | Jan 16 2010, 10:49 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80929
Any bets what year he will retire? |
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| John | Jan 16 2010, 11:00 PM Post #2 |
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Hopefully by the time Button retires the Dakar will really be the Dakar and not a name sake... |
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| Rob | Jan 16 2010, 11:01 PM Post #3 |
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He's in in 30s now or close to it, I say 5 years. Good on him though. I would have liked to see Kimi go for that. |
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| John | Jan 16 2010, 11:06 PM Post #4 |
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Very close... he is actually 29 years, 11 months and 29 days (dob 19. January 1980)
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| Red Andy | Jan 17 2010, 12:37 AM Post #5 |
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I was going to say that. Security problems persist in Mauritania and the Morocco-Algeria border has been closed for years .... so getting to Dakar overland is a bit of a problem for now. Hopefully a solution will be found soon and the Dakar can get back to its rightful home. |
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| safc_fan89 | Jan 23 2010, 10:45 AM Post #6 |
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Having it somewhere else is preferable to being massacred... |
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| John | Jan 23 2010, 09:11 PM Post #7 |
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I recall having this discussion with Flood last year when the new 'Dakar' started... I have no problem with the moving of the event and fully appreciate the security concerns involved in why it needed to move... my gripe is, was and always be with taking the Dakar name with it. It is new and improved over the traditional event... why not give it it's own name so that when the security situation improved the Dakar can be reinstated along side this new event. |
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