HEADLINES

Heroes of Legend Rally 2009

2009-11-05 22:09
From October 22nd to November 7th of 2009 Helly Frauwallner and Christian Horwath (KTM suported riders) will go about the next challenge.

From Paris to Dakar on their Motorcycles. That stands for more than 6.500km over mountains, gritty roads and through deserts.Several stages run over more than 700km a day in the most delicate terrain you can imagine.- Challenging for man and machine. The start will take place on October 22nd in Paris. Afterwards the Rally runs through five countries (France, Spain, Marokko, Mauretania, Senegal) to Dakar. Competitors from various countries will take part in the categories "Bikes", "Cars" and "Trucks"

Find all informations on www.rally-team.at or www.heroeslegend.com

November 4th, 7:52 p.m.: SENSATIONAL!!! CHRIS HORWATH OVERALL LEADER AGAIN!! HELLY 2nd PLACE OVERALL!
The sensation-series won't break! After todays stage on the circuit Akjoujt Chris is overall leader again! Helly has now reached the second place overall! With that we have a Contiger-Rallyteam doube-leadership at the Heroes Legend!

November 4th, 11:50 a.m.
The stage of today can be compared to a circuit... About 90kph average-speed! Details as usual will follow in the evening after our riders have reached the finish!

November 3rd, 08:38 p.m.: Chris is overall second after todays stage.
Helly still stable on pos. 7!Helly won todays stage with only 454 penalty-points, closely behind him Chris with 461 points! - Our riders left a clear gap to todays 3rd, Verzijl Wout, who got 665 penalty-points."Today's navigation-task ran over more than 500km and the connections between checkpoints were real offroad-stages... More than 40°C of heat, physical exhaustion due to apparently endless speed-sections that are interrupted by extremely challenging passages really demand a great deal of our riders!"

November 2nd, 08.57 a.m.: Today's stage 8 leads Helly and Chris to Mauretania into the Western-Sahara. Already in the morning heavy sandstorm...
Today's stage was cancelled from valuation because of serious problems concerning the crossing of the border to Mauretania!

November 1st, 10:12 p.m.
Many riders fell victim to todays Stage 7. from Laayoune to Dakhla. After that there are only about 50% of all competitors left.
"Today Helly reached Top-3 for the first time and was 2nd-best rider of the day! Chris reached position 7 in today's stage!The over 700km long distance overstrained many riders with sharp dunes and difficult sand-areas, so that after the stage there are only about 50 per cent of riders left."
Overall-results after stage 7: Chris 3rd, Helly 7th

October 31st, 09:40 p.m.
The results after todays, 500km long stage
"The start was delayed multiple times today, because there was a tragic fatal accident in this stage last year and today the helicopter was grounded for hours because of low visibility. At today's stage 6 Chris and Helly reached midfield-results and after that Chris is overall 3rd and Helly overall 10th now"

October 30th, 8:51 p.m.
SENSATIONAL MESSAGE FROM GUELMINE: CHRISTIAN HORWATH IS OVERALL-LEADER AFTER TODAY'S STAGE 5!!!!
With the best run of all OPEN class riders Christian today catapulted himself to the top of the field, leaving Rob Kiewiet and Jean-Philippe Foray behind him!Helly got the second-best results of today and closed the gap by reaching position 8 after today's stage from Tata to Guelmine. So he has successfully joined the Top-10!
"Chris experienced a few shocking moments today, when the bike nearly crashed down a rocky flank of a hill! Out of a sudden stones dissolved from the ground and caused an extremely unstable situation! Today the majority of riders had serious navigational-problems!"

Oktober 29th, 11:31 p.m.
SENSATIONAL INTERMEDIATE-RESULT!!! CHRIS ON OVERALL-POSITION 3 AT THE MOMENT!
Many riders left the race today at the way from Zagora to Tata. Many crashes, that fortunately were mostly not that harmful seemed to be standard today... - Also Chris and Helly did not escape without ground-contact, but nevertheless Chris sensationally is on overall position 3 after todays stage 4! Helly at the moment is on position 12.

October 29th, 11:30 a.m.
The GPS-Speeds of Helly an Chris let us expect nice results for today!
Considering the fact, that it takes some moments until the GPS-Logger offers speed-data and therefore it more or less gives only "average-speeds", those data is really not bad...!
Link: http://www.followmap.com/hl09/main/Main.aspx

28th October
Chris on position 6, Helly fighting against his very average first-stage results
After stage 3 Chris is on position 6 and Helly on 14. Helly's moderate result in stage 1 makes a spectacular catch-up race necessary. Chris runs constantly good and is placed well amongst the first third of the field until now.

26th and 27th October
Helly is the leader at all Speed-Stages, Chris started from pos. 7 today.
"While there were many losses amongst the bikes and numerous, partly severe crashes, Chris started from position 7 today, but still had to fight against technical problems concerning his KTM. Helly finished all speed-stages as the fastest rider! Despite a broken fuel-connector he was able to reach the finish first today...
At todays 27th October the path was very sandy and extremely hot. Chris finally reached the finish without any light in the darkness!"

October 25th, 21:23 p.m.
Reached the ferry in time + expectations for tomorrow
Our riders reached the ferry in time, but had trouble with a broken charge-controller in Chris' Rally 660... Tomorrow's stage will bring a lot of Action and extremely fast passages!

October 24th, 23:59 p.m.
Prolog and connection-stage to the ferry.
Today they had to run the prolog. Mano bikes did not start, because the conditions were irregular in some areas because of enduring rain before the prolog. The riders accepted penalty points. The circuit was parially flooded and there were many mud-holes. Chris and Helly have not had and trouble and reached the finish - dirty but unharmed.

Connection-Stage to Almeria/Spain
"After the prolog we started to Almeria via night connection-stage to reach the ferry in time. At 11p.m. Chris' KTM caused some trouble and we had to do a technical stop in the darkness. Until midnight we continued riding and wil now have four hours to sleep. Then the mechanics will carry on repairing the bike, so that we will hopefully reach the ship in time."

October 23rd, 11:45 p.m.
News from the techn. acc. test and others
"Today technical acceptance-test, worked all over the day and installed the etrack-system. Ernst and Christian had a lot to modify and the riders had to do a giant amount of paperwork. Helly got the illustrious No. "46" and Chris will take the race carrying No. "146". Tomorrow prolog and then we're gonna reach South of Spain during a night-stage to the ferry."

October 22nd, 8:55 p.m.
Helly and Chris report about the start in Paris
"Today the race started in Paris! Meeting place was the Parc Floral. The first challange was the ride to the Eiffel Tower through heavy traffic and 1000 redlights. After the start it goes to Ales in southern France, where the technical acceptance test is finished and the prolog for the starting-grid begins. It may be a bit strange, because today we already had freezing winds in the morning, 20°C at 12.00 and now driving rain on the way to Ales!"

Source: KTM-Sportmotorcycle AG

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