Santolino improves times and activates ‘trials’ mode for Dakar

lorenzo santolino (sherco) completed a good day in the third online phase of Morocco Rallyon a day more focused on complex navigation and where, despite not being completely confident, the man from Salamanca finished eleventh and closer to the pace of the main riders.

This Monday is the second episode, third day onlinewith 436 kilometers between Tan Tan and Laayoune, 316 of the timed special. The terrain consists of ‘plateaux’ with long straights and also the first sector of dunes, but also many rocky tracks. Santolino started in an intermediate position after a good performance on Sunday, leaving the nightmare of having to start behind many motorcycle and quad riders.

Lorenzo started well and was able to put himself in the ninth beat to the first waypointat 46 kilometers, for another time solidify in the top twelve. In the end, eleventh on the stage in 11’38, best Spaniard of the day. The winner of the day is Adrien Van Beveren (Honda) and has a new head of general, Skyler Howes (Husqvarna), where santolin he remains the fourteenth burdened by his problems in the prologue.

“The terrain is quite rough, I will not go with too much confidence, we are also testing the suspension settings and tuning for the Dakar, taking advantage of the fact that the final result is not the goal, andPositive is constantly looking for improvements, even on today’s terrain I didn’t feel comfortable”, has commented.

“The navigation has quite complicated points, where people get lost, because of the traces that diverge, it is important to confirm with the roadbook and it went well except for one place where I spent 2-3 minutes in finding a waypoint”, he explained, “Although I had to fight myself because I went alone, even so, it wasn’t bad, but we didn’t have what we wanted,” he acknowledges.

The third stage will be a loop in Laayoune bivouacwhere the race is now installed. It will consist of 300 kilometers of special with another 23 connections.