The Argentines Nicolas Cavigliasso and his navigator, Valentina Pertegarini (Team BBR), won stage 3 of the Challenger category and remain leaders in the general classification.
Cavigliasso covered 327 timed kilometers between Bisha and Al Henakiyah with a time of 3H, 39′ and 41″, only 14 seconds less than their escorts, the Dutch Paul Spierings and Jan Pieter Van Der Stelt (Team Rebellion & Spierings).
With this result, Cavigliasso and Pertegarini They stretched their advantage in the classification, since they gained 19 minutes and 29 seconds on the Portuguese Gonçalo Guerreiro and to the Brazilian Cadu Sachs (Red Bull off-road Jr Team).
Cavigliasso He is looking for his second title in the Dakarafter the one achieved in the Quads category in 2019.
Regarding the motorcycle category, the Argentine Luciano Benavides (KTM) finished fifth in stage 3 with a time of 3H, 49′ and 29″, four minutes and 55 seconds behind the leader, the Spanish Lorenzo Santolino (Sherco).
Benavides He took a few good minutes off the overall leader, the Australian Daniel Sanders (KTM), who finished the stage 21st. In this way, the Argentine finished sixth in the total classification, just 12 minutes and 37 seconds behind the ocean runner.
your brother Kevin (KTM), category winner in 2021 and 2023finished the stage 34th and is 27th overall, more than two hours away Sanders.
In the car category, the young South African, only 19 years old Saood Variawa (Toyota) took the third stage, with a record of 3H, 16′ and 52″.
The leader in this category is also South African Henk Lategan (who has his compatriot as navigator Brett Cummings and runs with Toyota), although the Qatari prince Nasse Al-Attiyah (Dacia) follows closely, at just 7 minutes and 17 seconds.
In turn, the Argentine Juan Cruz Yacopini (Toyota) finished 28th and occupies eleventh place overall, 35 minutes and 16 seconds behind Lategan.
Finally, in trucks, the trinomial formed by the Czechs Ales Loprais, David Kripal and the polish Darek Rodewald (Instatrade Loprais Team) won the stage and remain second in the general classification, led by the Czechs Martin Macik, Frantisek Tomasek and Davind Svandafrom the MM Technology team.
Stage 4 will take place this Wednesday, January 8 and will cover the route between Al Henakiyah and Alulawith a total of 415 timed kilometers.
Source: Ambito
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