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 | SA-Dakar Rally: Giniel de Villiers "Can't catch leaders who are 30 mins of us".
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On track and getting stronger: Stage 9 on day ten of the Dakar was a long sprint across hard, stony tracks which ended in soft sand and the iconic 2,5km descent down a steep dune face into the Iquique bivouac. The Imperial Toyotas ran superbly today to consolidate their top ten positions overall at this stage of the race.
Duncan Vos and Rob Howie, in particular, put their 10th place starting position to good use and finished 8th in today's stage to move into 10th place overall. They have now joined Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz (5th) and Lucio Alvarez (9th) in the top ten overall standings.
The team strategy is now to sit tight behind the leading pack and to see what may still develop over the next few days. Giniel de Villiers: "Because we lack a little of the horsepower and torque of the Mini we inevitably suffered when the stage became about pure speed."
"I was hoping it was going to be more twisty on the stage but when they deal us a load of straight sections we just can’t compete with the speed of the Minis or the Hummers. We can't catch the leaders who are now 30 minutes of us, but we can maintain this position and pick up the pieces if anything happens to the remaining Hummer or the Minis."
Duncan Vos said: "I really enjoyed today's run and am very happy to have finished within four minutes of Giniel. I am feeling a lot more confident and feel that I can race under these circumstances now."
2012/01/11 | 14:06 CET | ARTICLE: MR/SY/FORTUNE/KOK
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