“Ten minutes is nothing. I have to keep fighting because everyone wants the same thing: to win. You have to keep giving everything every day. The race is very close, in the next stages anything can happen”, assured the Argentine to the official website of the competition.
“It was a very fast and shorter stage, a stage that we could call ‘normal’. I ran well, but I think the navigation today was easier. I liked it a lot because there were many valleys and canyons. It was a beautiful stage”, he described.
The champion of Dakar 2021 He still could not achieve any victory in this year’s rally, something that only happened to him in the 2019 edition among the previous five of which he participated.
From the start of the test in Saudi Arabia was 4th. (stage 1A), 14th. (1B), 3rd. (2), 8th. (3), 16th. (4), 8th. (5), 14th. (6), 2nd. (7), 13th. (8) and 2nd. (9), which generated some ups and downs in the general.
Last Sunday, on the day of his 33rd birthday, Benavides He was also second and got 5:23 from the lead, on Monday he fell back to 14:47 and this Tuesday he again reduced a difference that is not significant in the most extreme and complex competition in the motor world.
So the Salta -first South American motorcycle champion rider- continues with the intact dream of winning the championship again. Dakar with a different brand after getting it last year with Honda.
No one could achieve that particularity since the rally left its original stage in Europe Y Africa to start his stage in South America (2009-2019) and Saudi Arabia (since 2020). Before they were French Cyril Neveu (Yamaha and Honda) and Italian Edi Orioli (Honda and Cagiva) those who marked that antecedent.
Luciano Benavides placeholder image (Husqvarna), younger brother of Kevin, qualified seventh in the ninth stage (+4: 21) and remains in 14th. echelon of the general. His goal is to improve the 6th. position of 2020, something that does not seem easy with only three stages ahead and just over 44 minutes to discount.
In quadricycles, the Cordovan representative of U.S, Pablo Copetti (Yamaha), won the part of this Monday, whose podium was completed with the French Alexandre giroud (Yamaha Racing SMX Drag’on) -the leader of the category- and the Argentine debutant Francisco Moreno (Drag’on Rally Team), which thus obtained its best result in this edition.
Copetti still fight to win the Dakar for the first time in 10 appearances: he is second in the accumulated at 24:31 of the French, who today resigned a difference of 6:16 in relation to his pursuer.
The mendocino Moreno occupies fourth place and is only 40 seconds behind bronze in the division, so far owned by the Polish Kamil Wisniewski (Yamaha).
The fight for the title in the car category was alien to the Argentines, after the mechanical incident suffered on Monday by Lucio Alvarez (Overdrive Toyota), which put him on the verge of abandonment and commanded the 4th. to the 22nd. Market Stall.
The best located is Mendoza Orlando Terranova (Prodrive), on the fourth step, but at a considerable distance of 1:36:09 from the Qatari leader Nasser Al-Attiyah (Toyota Gazoo Racing).
The pilot of the emirate entered today third behind the South African Giniel De Villiers Y Henk Lategan, from his own team. In the general, he has a difference of 39:05 over his French escort Sebastien Loeb (Prodrive).
The tenth partial of Dakar will take place tomorrow between the cities of Wadi Ad Dawasir Y Bisha with a total distance of 735 kilometers, 375 timed.
Source From: Ambito
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