My good friend and neighbor was actually in the race..Chris Blais. He said the same thing, when he went by Meoni, there was so much blood..he knew it wasn't good news..

Chris said that with the way the instruments on the handlebars on the Dakar bikes were set so high, he got a pretty good cut on his neck when standing on the pegs, leaning forward at the high speed sections..the instruments were literally inches from his neck.

He just guessed by saying its probably the same thing that happened to Meoni, but the cut probably got his Jugular vein.....RIP Fabrizio....[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

Chris was on the red bull/american team right? ddin't he get like 9th or something. thats great for a first time dakar rider.

 

Yep...9th overall....pretty awesome job. We race the AMA District 37 desert races, and everyone knew when he was chosen for the Red Bull team, he was gonna get a good finish. We were all expecting a top 20 finish, but he blew us all away when he broke into the top 10...

He seems to spend every waking hour on his KTM, even after he got back home from 16 days of racing Dakar, he was already planning on racing the local D-37 National Desert race 5 days away...the kid is an animal....Great Job to all the teams that finished Dakar...[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

yeah i wasn't expecting that good of a finish for his first dakar. tell him i said great job!!!