With a total disaster ending stage 2 for Spanish interest in cars, it’s time to look at motorcycles with more optimism. And there, among the favorites is the Valencian Tosha Schareina, in his second participation as an official Honda driver.
The Valencian driver did not stand out as much as he did at the start of the season. Dakar last, when he won the prologue stage and showed devilish speed. But he more than perfectly fulfills the main goal at this point of the race: to fight and stay on the path without falling. Much better than last year, since when he was leader, he fell in stage 1 and had to leave.
Tosha He remains quiet, calm, with options intact and in a very good position after overcoming the extreme hardness of the first two stages, a first day with many trees with thorns filling his arms with signs, as happened to most, and a second. stage of 48 hours with huge sand, where it is very easy to get stuck again and again, and up to almost 1,000 kilometers ahead, with a lot of physical effort. As he said Santolino, “Looks like today they have to give us a break and we’ve only been there for two days”. crazy “He’s quite delicate on a physical level,” said the man from Salamanca.
In that context, Tosha should be happy to stay there after completing the 947 kilometer stage in third position of the day, 7’41” from stage winner Daniel Sanders (KTM), who in turn beat Howes, second by 7 minutes.
In the middle of the fight with Sanders as the only standout
This keeps Tosha fourth overall, 12’48” behind the new leader, a Daniel Sanders leaving nothing for anyone after winning all the stages, the prologue and stages 1 and 2. Sanders took advantage of his good starting position early in stage 2 to set a devastating pace, and on the second day of 48 hours he didn’t even have a problem on the opening track, showing immense confidence to everyone of what he did to set. the speed again. Wonderful.
In the third position generally is current FIM W2RC raid world champion, Ross branch12’40” behind the leader, with Howes, team mate Tosha in sling bagin second position at 12’36”. Everything was very tight on the bikes, where only Sanders achieved an advantage of more than 12 minutes over his rivals with an unstoppable start.
Canet reached the Top-10 overall and the leader of Rally2
Canet remains 11th overall after the comeback he staged in the first part of the difficult 48-hour time trial stage. The 19-year-old pilot continues to shine and shows amazing speed despite his youth and appreciates the many learnings he has accumulated during the very long, difficult stage full of dangers such as sand dunes where it is very difficult which cannot be hooked.
Canet finished a difficult stage 2 54 minutes behind the overall leader, seconds behind Cox to enter the Top-10 and less than 8 minutes behind Nacho Cornejo (Hero) in ninth position. Furthermore, on his Dakar debut, he consolidated his position as leader of the general Rally2 classification with a 4-minute advantage over Docherty and an 8-minute margin over Ebster after finishing second in Rally2 on stage 2.
Canet finished with a Top-10 stage finish (10th) 21’53” behind the winner. Unbelievable for his age and because this is his first Dakar, a test that is one of the most difficult to start in recent decades.
Source: La Verdad
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