On the Hail roller, in Saudi Arabia, with a special stage of 333, the Lithuanian Laisvydas Kancius dominated with the Yamaha 700 and took the reins of the Quads specialty, since the Argentine Manuel Andujar (7240 Team), current champion, suffered navigation problems and finished in tenth position, almost 42 seconds behind.
The Cordovan based in the United States, Pablo Copetti (Yamaha), who dominated the first part of the stage, finished in fourth position, at 9m36, while the debutant Francisco Moreno (Dragon) from Mendoza completed the leading quintet, at 23m42.
In the divisional cars, the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah he won the first stage with the Toyota Hilux in the 333-kilometer loop of the Ha’il special and remains at the top of the general table, and among the Argentines, the Mendoza Lucio Álvarez slipped into fourth place, on the Hilux, 27.42 behind Nasser.
The rest of Mendoza: Sebastián Halpern, with a Mini of the X-Raid, he was sixth in just under half an hour. and the experienced Orlando Terranova, with the Hunter, finished 13th, at 49m27, and Juan Cruz Yacopini, with the Hilux, he placed 15th, at 55m22.
In Motorcycles, the main candidates of the test, such as the defending champion of the crown, Kevin Benavidez (KTM) from Salta, lost references in an initial section of the stage and, thus, valuable minutes.
Kevin Benavides was in 20th place with his KTM, more than 36 minutes behind Sanders, and other referents, the Spanish Joan Barreda Bort, another of the losers, placed 17th, almost 42 minutes away.
Among the Argentines, in addition to Kevin Benavides, came the Riojan Diego Gamaliel Llanos (32 °, 58 minutes), the Salta Luciano Benavides (38 °, at 1h03m31), the Mendoza Diego Noras (52 °, 1h37m17) and the Buenos Aires de Acevedo, Joaquín Debeljuh (62 °, at 1h53m30).
Predictably, in Trucks the current champion, Russian Dmitry Sotnikov, won the first stage in Ha’il, with a distance of 333 kilometers, and was placed in front of the general with the Kamaz No. 500.
Sotnikov’s teammates and compatriots, Nikolaev and Loprais completed the lead third.
Ales Loprais, with Prague, got into the middle of the Kamaz, at 9m58, while Anton Shibalov and Andrey Karginov completed the first five positions.
The Chaco Juan Manuel Silva, with a MAN, navigated by the Spanish Paul Navarro and the Argentine Carlos Mel Banfi, came in 26th place, in his first experience driving a truck.
The divisional Side By Side, had the American Seth Quintero, with the OT3 of the Red Bull team, as the winner of the stage.
The Red Bull OT3 driver completed the special in 4h21m35 and left Chilean Francisco “Chaleco” López Contardo in second place, almost two minutes away, and Swede Sebastian Eriksson finished third, at 6m52.
While the Spanish-Argentine Fernando Álvarez Castellano finished in seventh place, at 43m13.
ASO, the organizing company of the 44th edition of the Dakar, reported that the Marathon Stage, which was to take place tomorrow, on the occasion of Stage 2, was suspended because the Al Artawiyah bivouac, where the machines would have to arrive, was flooded as a consequence of the strong storms of the last hours.
“Due to the flooding at Al Artawiyah bivouac caused by heavy storms and rain, we are forced to move the end of stage 2 to Al Qaisumah bivouac. There will be no marathon bivouac. The only change will be in transfer B of stage 2 “, he communicated.
In this way, the caravan will reach Al Qaisumah, the camp they were supposed to arrive at on Tuesday, and the planned link section will be modified.
In principle, the second stage had a route of 585 km between the cities of Hail and Artaniyah.
Source From: Ambito
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