The Valencian Tosha Schareina (Honda), on motorcycles, and the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyahin cars, celebrated separate victories this Sunday at Trans-Iberian Rally held in Portugal, corresponding to the third round of the W2RC World Championship where Carlos Sainz remains second.
The young Valencian Honda driver achieved three partial victories (two victory stages and the prologue) of the five that made up the program and managed to finish the rally with a difference of 4:38 to the German Sebastian Bühler (Hero) and 10:27 with the Portuguese Bruno Santos.
Another Spaniard, Lorenzo Santolino (Sherco), defending seventh place overall, suffered a heavy fall at 130 km/h and had to retire after losing consciousness and the motorcycle was badly damaged. He was taken to a hospital to undergo medical tests where serious injuries were ruled out.
Heavy accident in Santolino
“I’m fine, they’ve done scans and x-rays to rule out injuries because I fell a bit too fast and got a big blow to the chest. Apparently there is nothing, it is to be ruled out after the impact,” Santolino commented.
“I fell in a straight line, in a firebreak between pine forests, there was a root that came out from passing motorcycles and when I passed, it was dug up more, but it was no longer visible. I was falling quite fast, I don’t know, maybe about 130 km/. The bike was badly damaged, I lost consciousness for about a minute, when I woke up I was fine, I tried to continue but I couldn’t, I fell again because the seatposts were broken. After a while my ribs started hurting and I went for a check-up.”
In the W2RC World Championship, Ross Branch remains in the lead with 21 points ahead of Van Beveren and 23 over Ricky Brabec. Tosho Schareina was fifth with 36 points.
In cars, success went to Nasser Al-Attiyah, who completed the final sprint of the final stage in 3:34, securing his victory to comfortably rally, with a 2:49 advantage over the Portuguese. João Ferreira (Mini) and Lucas Moraes (Toyota).
Carlos Sainz, who had problems with his car’s brakes, just missed the podium with fourth place, 2:36 behind the third position of the Brazilian Lucas Moraes (Toyota Gazoo Racing) and the Spanish Armand Monleón.
With this success, Nasser Al-Attiyah He overtook Carlos Sainz and leads the championship with 112 points, twelve more than the Spaniard, who remains second. Al Rajhi is third, with 33 points.
Source: La Verdad
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