Ricky Brabec on motorcycles and Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz in cars they slept this Wednesday as the overall leaders of their respective categories with an advantage of 10’54” to Branch and 13’22” to Loeb, respectively after overcoming the tenth stage of the Dakar rally, a short special of 371 kms. But they will chain it with another trap stage with many stones, 420 km. They gave some breaks to the competitors by cutting 60 km “for safety reasons”, but the drivers and co-drivers will be tired of bouncing in their cabins and changing tires from Al Ula to Yanbu .
In the general description given to them at the briefing, the same phrases are repeated: “pistes with stones in canyons” at km 20, “pistes and off-piste in canyons on the plateau, presence of stones” , from 20 to 105, “slower track with rocks” from 295 to 333, “winding track sometimes bad in cobbled canyon” in 372. Dry rivers, big, sharp rocks and boring gravel And points to watch out for like a “bad ridge with rocks” at km 58 or a “stony trial pass” at km 349. And the organization’s warning: “lots of rocks, beware of holes.”
This is the same place from stage 2 of the last Dakar rally where Sébastien Loeb lost his chances of winning the Dakar for the first time due to three punctures that left him stranded and without tires. But if it was an obsession for Loeb, it was also one for the Audi army led by Commander Sainz, who kept Peterhansel as his main lieutenant after burning Ekstrom in the tenth stage.
Source: La Verdad
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