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Bisha, Saudi Arabia, January 3. Bisha, 277 kilometers of special set in a long and difficult stage, a good 630 kilometers. Everything is already there, waking up at night, long commutes, sailing and driving. A mini-hell to heat up at high altitude. The informational warning had been tasteless – Watch out for the many intersecting tracks, the stones in more guided tracksSome landmarks not to be missed, so you could still think of a day of “acclimatization” to the dangers of the Dakar.
But no, ready, let’s go and here we are immersed in the “matter”, in hard reality of this life as a racing adventurer, especially for those who are overconfident. It applies to everyone without distinction, from the well-paid professional for making no mistakes and staying in the lead, to the cadet-rookie-philosopher. Yes, because at the top of the ranking a mistake pays dearly in terms of competition, while at the rear is the wasted time that complicates the daysshortening them and adding them to fatigue, anxiety, lack of sleep.
The tactics adopted in the Foreword had, after the first “real” stage, its meaning, tangible Delayed effect. The winners of the Prologue were tasked with open and find the correct clue, and so Brabec me Barreda, as well as the phenomenon of these deserts, Al Attiyah, the spotlights of the first hour were a blunder and the bitter cup of a useless weight to carry in the next days of competition.
A navigation error, a simple mistake, and we start again with a hole. That with today’s “tight” Dakar is never a joke. We must be careful with this type of “traps” and be aware that the tracker Dakar, today he is one of those who has always known what he does as a sailor, and now that the parts have been reversed, he can also enjoy making life miserable for his competitors. Let’s talk about history and a specific person: David castera, Former pilot, Former right hand man at the time of General Lavigne, former navigator of the invincible Peugeot and, finally Dakar Director.
We reached us, those 277 kilometers. In and out of valleys and sandy tracks, but also hard and slightly dusty soils. That veil over the wheels also draws right and wrong tracks. It is not easy when it comes to choosing between many climatic and local routes. Brabec and Barreda, but also another favorite, Pablo Quintanilla, they soon make a mistake, it is only the beginning of the Special, and they fight to get back on track, to offer a golden opportunity to their rivals. Almost 20 minutes late, here is the price of the Prologue shotgun.
Those who followed, in particular, take advantage of it Toby Price, Sunderland and Walkner, KTM, but also By Soultrait, Husqvarna, Kevin Benavides, Honda, e Lorenzo Santolino, Sherco. Price, launched to the attack, is also wrong, but they are venial sins that do not affect the pace of the Australian, who finally crosses the finish line ahead of Benavides and Walkner. All in half a minute.
If you think that for cars the effort of navigation is nothing, having already passed to motorcyclists, you are wrong. This is true, in fact, only when the stages are easy and therefore the advantage is reduced. However, in the case of special offers that are difficult to navigate, the tracks in front of the wheels They go in all directions, and that only one is correct, all the others wrong. Then it is necessary to restart the mind and pretend that the soil is virgin. Better, for a good navigator, trust your own abilities than those of others.
This does not mean that even an experienced browser like Mathieu baumel sometimes you can’t help your pilot 100%, Nasser Al Attiya. In fact, the game was the first Toyota number 301 you are working on a task that turns out to be difficult, or at least slow to complete. It is tenth, and even in this case you understood very well what it was Mini strategy, unpredictably slow during Jeddah warm-up.
And here is that the first stage of the cars is animated by a beautiful grief in the family. Both Buggy John Cooper Works of Peterhansel me Sainz They zoom through the desert absorbing all the opponents and appearing near the goal in pairs. Peter cuts first, but it is Sainz who benefits a little more from the starting order and wins in the first special of the Rally ahead of Peterhansel, the Czech. Prokop, Ford and the French sawmills with one of his Century buggy prototypes.
Similarly to what happened between motorcycles, also a Have Brinke, Terra nova, Al rajhi, and so Loeb me Rome with the BRX Hunter Newly conceived, a heavy bill is already presented at the first “lunch” of the Dakar. Of course, not just navigation errors. Even the first, numerous punctures, another one of the “plagues” of the Desert … when that’s not all sand roses and dunes!
Sainz and Peterhansel downplay They did not expect such a complicated stage, but neither the French nor the Spanish are to be believed. Too expert even in front of the microphones! The truth is that the Dakar war must be fought with absolute tactical precision from the first skirmish!
In Bisha there is also Sotnikov-Akhmadeev-Akhmetzianov with the first of the Kamaz, Alexandre Giroud with the quad rhyme, Barela-Justo with the first SSV.
Before moving on to the second stage, enter Bisha e Wadi Ad-Dawasir, 685 km, 457 from Speciale.
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