Benavides27 years old, the youngest of the brothers, who had already won the sixth stage, prevailed today by covering the 358 kilometers of the special stage on quite wet sand, and took an advantage of 1 minute and 2 seconds over the Australian Toby Price (KTM) and 2 minutes and 57 seconds over the American Skyler Howes (Husqvarna).
The Argentine pilot, a native of jumpdefined the stage in his favor with the last intermediate point (at kilometer 318) and went in search of his second victory, which he achieved with a margin of 1:02 difference with which he reached the finish line.
In yesterday’s session, Benavides2021 champion in his category, was ninth in yesterday’s partial but was favored by the worst performance of the leader, the American Skyler Howes and former Australian shooting guard toby prince, who arrived 17th. and 15th. respectively with delays of 15 minutes.
Benavides (Red Bull KTM) He posted a 9:18 gap to the winner but his time was enough to pass his teammate Price overall for second, just 1:13 behind Howes (Husqvarna Factory Racing) along with Klein.
Meanwhile, and during the beginning of the stage, the Spanish Joan Barreda he overturned and had to abandon the race. After the accident, he was taken to a hospital in Riyadh aboard a helicopter.
Source: Ambito
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