Al Atiyah in cars, Honda in bikes take command in Abu Dhabi

the second stage of Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge 250 kilometers in the heart of the Liwa Desert, which is almost 50% sand dunes. For motorcycles, it was day one of the marathon stages and Husqvarna’s Luciano Benavidez took the win while Honda’s Adrian van his Beveren led the overall standings ahead of teammate Pablo his Quintanilla and youngest Benavidez. bottom.

by car, Nasser al-Attiyah He managed an advantage and won over the Fords of teammates Yazid Al Raj and Martin Prokop. The Toyota Gazoo Racing driver extended his lead over the Saudi driver in the overall ADDC standings.

Van Beveren’s new motorcycle leader

The Hondas of Quintanilla and Van Beveren started the route-opening stage and finished ninth and fifth on the day, but maintained their lead in the general classification. The Frenchman took his ADDC lead by 1’30” behind the Chilean. Stage winner Luciano Benavidez put Husqvarna on his third step of the overall podium and he was out of VBA. is 3’27” behind. In his second 1’17” of the day, Nacho Cornejo was very close to a 100% HRC podium as he was just one second behind Argentina in fourth place overall. Toby Price (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing ), and today is 8th, 3rd to 6th overall, almost 4 minutes behind the leader.

In the Rally2 category, Paolo Lucci (BAS World KTM Racing) took the win in 8 minutes 23 seconds ahead of rookie Tobias Ebster (SRG Motorsport). He also led Jean-Loup Lepan (Dust Diverse Racing), Toni Mulec (BAS World KTM Racing) and Konrad Dabrowski (Dust Diverse Racing). In the overall W2RC standings, the Italian is more than 14 minutes ahead of Konrad and nearly 15 minutes ahead of Jeanloup.

in the quad department, Laisvydas Kancius ended Abdulaziz Ahli’s winning streak by winning the final stage in less than two minutes. The Emirati continues to lead the race with him over 42 minutes ahead of the Lithuanian and about an hour ahead of Rodolfo Ghiglioli. As per the Marathon stage format rules, a driver in the Rally GP category is required to perform mechanical maintenance for 30 minutes (one hour for a driver in the Rally 2 category) after arriving at the bivouac without outside assistance. there was.

Al Attiyah, with an iron hand on the car

Nasser Al Attiyah (Toyota Gazoo Racing) watched on Monday as his biggest rival in the world championship, Sébastien Loeb (Bahrain Raid Xtreme), lost hopes of winning the ADDC after failing to complete a stage. Some wondered if the Qatari would manage the race like he did in week two of the Dakar and the Frenchman would go on to achieve his record sixth consecutive win and score many of his W2RC points.The answer is already clear: Al-Attiyah dominated the competition

At the end of the stage, his victory was first announced with an advantage of 7 minutes 47 seconds over Loeb and 12 minutes 14 seconds over Al Raj. However, the BRX driver was subsequently handed a 15-foot penalty for missing his timing point on the stage, required by the regulations, and as expected by the Prodrive team, the engine failed overnight after failing the day before. He received a 50-hour penalty for replacing the Nasser Al Attiyah now leads with an 18’19 inch advantage over Al Rajhi.

In T3, Matthias Ekstrom, He ran out of fuel yesterday and won today, finishing 5th in the stage standings at 18’30” behind Al Atiyah. He is Seth Quintero, a three-man member of Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team USA. (+2’41”), Austin Jones (+4’34”) and Mitch Guthrie (4’34”).Overall, Quintero leads Jones by 9’41” doing. .

Rocas Bachuska in T4 (Red Bull Can-Am Factory) won the stage ahead of Pau Navarro (FN Speed). The Lithuanian has a nine-minute advantage over the Catalan overall.