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2015 Dakar Rally: Nasser Al-Attiyah defends his lead in the overall classification ahead of the rest day // Six MINI ALL4 Racing cars finish in the top ten on stage eight.
Sun Jan 11 09:40:00 CET 2015 Comunicati Stampa
2015 Dakar Rally: Nasser Al-Attiyah defends his lead in the overall classification ahead of the rest day // Six MINI ALL4 Racing cars finish in the top ten on stage eight.
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Munich (DE). Nasser Al-Attiyah/Mathieu Baumel (QT/FR) are still
leading the overall classification at halftime at the 2015 Dakar
Rally. The duo finished special stage eight in third position
right ahead of its biggest opponents De Villiers/Von Zitzewitz,
who are now 8:27 minutes behind in the overall classification.
Orlando Terranova (AR) and his co-driver Bernardo Graue (AR)
in the MINI ALL4 Racing also posted a strong result on day eight
of this year’s Dakar. The two Argentineans finished one place
ahead of Al-Attiyah/Baumel in second position.
Four more MINI ALL4 Racing cars were in the top ten on
Sunday. Krzysztof Holowczyc/Xavier Panseri (PL/FR) kept there
steady pace today crossing the line in fifth position. They
defended their fourth place in the overall classification.
Joan “Nani” Roma/Michel Périn (ES/FR) in the MINI ALL4
Racing were also in the top ten again posting the sixth fastest
time. Vladimir Vasilyev/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RU/RU) were in eighth
position followed by Boris Garafulic/Filipe Palmeiro (CL/PT), who
finished within the top ten in the MINI ALL4 Racing for the first
at this year’s Dakar Rally.
Leg eight lead from Uyuni in Bolivia back to Iquique in
Chile where the Dakar was on Friday already. Today the drivers
completed the second day of the so-called marathon stages. On two
days the drivers couldn’t call upon their support teams.
The 784 kilometre-long special stage eight was held on a
dried out salt lake called Salar de Uyuni where the drivers were
able to go flat out for several hundred kilometres. Later they
entered a 274 kilometre-long neutralization section before heading
into a 38 kilometre sprint to Iquique at the Pacific Coast.
On Monday the drivers will be able to re-charge their
batteries on the rest day in Chile while the teams will be able to
set-up the cars for the second part of the toughest rally in the
world. There are still five stages to go until the Dakar reaches
the finish line in Buenos Aires (AR) on Saturday.
Overall classification after leg 8 (Top 6).
01 Al-Attiyah/Baumel - MINI ALL4 Racing - 26:41:15h
02 De
Villiers/Von Zitzewitz - 26:49:42h
03 Al Rajhi/Gottschalk -
26:59:55h
04 Holowczyc/Panseri – MINI ALL4 Racing - 27:35:53h
05 Ten Brinke/Colsoul – 28:04:07h
06 Van Loon/Rosegaar – MINI
ALL4 Racing - 28:07:06h
Coming up.
Day 9 (12 January 2015).
Rest day Iquique
MINI ALL4 Racing 2015 Dakar Rally Lineup.
Monster Energy Rally Raid Team.
#300 Nani Roma/Michel Périn (ES/FR)
#305 Orlando Terranova/Bernardo „Ronnie“ Graue (AR/AR)
#306 Krzysztof Holowczyc/Xavier Panseri (PL/FR)
X-raid Team.
#310 Vladimir Vasilyev/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RU/RU)
#314 Erik van Loon/Wouter Rosegaar (NL/NL)
#319 Boris Garafulic/Filipe Palmeiro (CL/PT)
#329 Aidyn Rakhimbayev/Anton Nikolaev (KZ/RU)
#332 Zhou
Yong/Andreas Schulz (CN/DE)
#334 Stephan Schott/Holm Schmidt (DE/DE)
Qatar Rally Team.
#301 Nasser Al-Attiyah/Mathieu Baumel (QT/FR)
Find more photos and videos in high resolution of the Dakar participants in the MINI ALL4 Racing on the BMW Media Website by clicking here.