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 | SA-Dakar Rally: Iveco´s leading, Loprais rolled truck, Ardavichus profited.
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Tuesday was an extreme day; competitors out of the competition and again a one-two-three for the Dutch De Rooy Petronas team. Mike Biasion takes the 1st place in Iquique and is 20 seconds ahead of Hans "Racey" Stacey.
Gerard de Rooy is 3rd at 54 seconds. Artur Ardavichus takes the 4th place and the 5th place is again for an Iveco truck; it’s the fast service truck of Pep Vila who finished 20.19 minutes behind Miki. The only issue for the team members now is to keep a level head and secure the places on the stand.
One of the toughest rivals, the Czech Ales Loprais Tatra team, had to retire after a bad accident. They rolled their truck, the crews went to hospital. From this especially Kamaz driver Artur Ardavichus profited and earned the 3rd place overall (+01:06:40) after the Ivecos from Gerard De Rooy and Hans Stacey.
Stagewinner Miki Biasion after the stage: "I’m very satisfied about today’s stage and very happy with my 2nd victory. We didn’t make any navigational mistake and technically everything went perfect. Although I’m not going for the stand anymore, I hope I can help Team de Rooy to have a few IVECO’s on the highest steps of the stand. We were quite fast at Loprais’ accident; they indicated that the helicopter was on his way and several people were with them so I couldn’t do very much."
The overall leader Gerard de Rooy added: "I’m very impressed by the accident of Loprais. All three of them were taken to the hospital; Loprais complaint on his back and if such a thing happens, you start thinking. Furthermore we had some problems during the first part and 2 reaction arms of the front axle were crooked, so we had to slow down the last 90 kilometres. It’s no problem to repair it so I leave it up to Hugo to take care that we have a tip-top truck at the start tomorrow."
Hans Stacey is also happy with his result: "It went very well today. Despite we made 2 times a small navigational mistake and also had to drive in the dust of a Kamaz for quite some kilometres, we are satisfied. We won again a few minutes on Ardavichus so now we have to keep a level head. The Dakar Rally is not only pushing the gas pedal but also good thinking. We also stopped when we saw the accident of Loprais but so many people were up and at it that we could continue quite fast."
2012/01/11 | 14:49 CET | ARTICLE: MR/SY/DEROOY
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