The French Adrien van Beveren (Honda) arrived with the best time in the ‘F’ camp, the last one of which the ‘Top 10’ will come in the first of the two days in which the sixth stage of the Dakar is divided, temporarily leaving the American Ricky Brabec (Honda), the rider who ended KTM’s streak of 18 consecutive victories in 2020, as the new provisional leader of the motorcycle general standings.
Although there are still 112 kilometers to complete in the sixth stage, which ends this Friday, Ricky Brabec temporarily took first place in the general classification from Botswana Ross Branch (Hero), who was 2’48” behind, Nacho Cornejo was third with 6’37” lost, Van Beveren rose to the top-4 in 13’02” and Next are KTM’s Toby Price, at 28’17” and defending champion Kevin Benavides, at 28’28”, the only riders less than half an hour apart.
However, the best time of arrival at camp ‘E’ – the fifth of seven in this 48-hour stage – was for Honda van Beveren, with 1’21” ahead of Brabec, 1’49” of Price, 3’32” to Sanders, 6’07” to Luciano Benavides, 7’56” to Branch, 12’19 to Kevin Benavides, 13’08” to Svitko, 14’57” to Cornejo and 29’58” to Joan Barreda , the ten pilots who came the farthest on the stage. Three arrived at point E, another at point D, two more at point B.
Barreda pays as ‘opening’
It’s not the best episode Joan Barreda, who had to open the track after a severe blow he hit his chest with the instruments on his handlebars when he fell heavily behind a dune, and lost a minute section by section. Cornejo soon caught up with him and released him from the wheel at noon.
Neither for the Chilean Pablo Quintanilla, who after winning this Wednesday, lost any chance of winning the general standings when he had to stop due to running out of fuel at Km. 184. He lost for more than an hour until someone gave him gas. At km 39, Skyler Howes was stopped by a mechanical problem and abandoned.
The stage, called the ’48 h chrono’ and covering more than 550 kilometers in two days in the most inhospitable area of the Empty Quarter, will continue this Friday from 6.15 am, ending with the unveiling of the general. classification after the first week of Dakar 2024.
Source: La Verdad
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