The prologue stage of the Dakar 2025 is to mark the beginning of everyone’s strategy game in the various competitions of the most difficult race in the world before the start of the real fire with stage 1 held this Saturday, especially with the objective of one of the most complex stages, stage 2 on Sunday and Monday, which lasts 48 hours, where cars will not have the marks of motorcycles because the route of both disciplines will be different.
For all this, there was a lot of interest to know the choice of pilots in their starting position in stage 1 so that everyone can start showing their cards. In the cars, the first 10 choose position for that first day, a group in which they are not Carlos Sainz after the 25th in the prologue.
After the election of the 10 fastest this Thursday, the expectation happened, that those 10 would choose to put themselves behind the Spaniard. SAYes, Carlos Sainz will tackle stage 1 of the Dakar 2025 from the 6th starting position, with 4 cars leaving before him, and all his rivals want to be caught to mark each other and keep the reigning champion in check.
Nani Rome He chose 7th place, starting just behind his teammate Sainz. There was doubt whether Loeb and Al-Attiyah They will prefer to start earlier than the Madrid native so that, if Carlos overtakes them, they can ensure a minimum loss of time compared to the Spaniard in the general classification, but at the same time, a later starting position for the stage 2. And surely, there must be the key. Everyone is watching on stage 2.
No one wants to win stage 1 because that means opening the track without a track in the first part of the time trial 48, it was very difficult and difficult. So, without a choice, the initial strategy of Carlos It doesn’t seem so bad.
Loeb chose to be 8th after Sainz and Roma, and Al-Attiyah preferred to mark his two rivals, Loeb and Sainzfrom behind, in 9th place, with Ekström in 10th starting place and Lategan, winner of the prologue, in 11th.
Starting sequence of stage 1 in cars:
- By Mevius
- Yacopini (and Dani Oliveras)
- Jurkevicius
- Serradori
- Vanagas
- Sainz
- Rome
- Loeb
- Al-Attiyah
- Ekström
- Whiplash
- Baciuska (and Oriol Mena)
- Ferreira
- Baragwanath
- Moraes
- Variawa
- Krotov
- Laia Sanz
- Mannama
- De Villiers
Edgar Canet, going for the stage win?
On motorcycles, Edgar Canetthe great jewel of the future of raids, after being third in the prologue stage (and in general, because the hours are counted on motorcycles), chose to choose a very late starting position that could be very good for him to start attacking. , although it could harm him in the face of a hypothetical obligation to open the track in the first part of the dreaded 48-hour time trial. For his part, the Valencian Tosha Schareina will start in 19th place, close to other favourites, including Lorenzo Santolino on the 9th
Skyler Howes coming out on the 14th, Van Beveren16th, Luciano Benavides will do it in 17th place, Quintanilla He will start from 18th, just ahead of his teammate Schareina and also the Honda driver Ricky Brabec (20th), they all have the option to drive in a group to choose a good team strategy. The world champion, Ross Branch, will start from 21st place ahead of Edgar Canet and Daniel Sanders, who will start from 23rd position.
Source: La Verdad
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