Dakar Stage 3: The Hawk Aims for Top Ten, Leaders Lost



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Follow the course of the race on the portal tv3.lt. On Tuesday, the runners will have to cover 685 kilometers, of which 457 will be speed sections. Lithuania has already lost a driver after two stages: Vaidotas Žala withdrew from the fight due to a car breakdown.

The performance continues with motorcyclist Arūnas Gelažninkas, four-wheeler Laisvydas Kancius, and car drivers Benediktas Vanagas, Edvinas Juškauskas, Antanas Juknevičius and Gintas Petrus.

The best time in two stages in the car category is shown by B. Vanagas, who has already been on the track for 8 hours. 30 minutes. (Position 24). The crew of E. Juškauskas and Aisvydas Paliukėnas (34th place) are 22 minutes behind him.

A. Juknevičius (40th place) and G. Petrus (47th place) settled in the 1950s.

L. Kancius is eleventh in its class and A. Gelažninkas is second in its category, 33rd among all motorcycles.

Race circuit:

11 val. 12 min. ATVs are bad too. L. Kancius (+00: 41: 19) has a chance to catch up with his rivals in 9-10 places. They are only 5 and 2 minutes away.

A. Gelažninkas has another WP remaining and will remain to reach the finish line. The data shows that the rider did not get lost anywhere, but failed to climb from 39th position.

11 val. 4 min. We speak. A. Juknevičius also missed and took 44th place. G. Petrus took advantage of that – after WP3 he jumps to 34th position (+00: 20: 28).

11 val. B. The hawk remains stable. After 235 kilometers, the Lithuanian registers the ninth result. Our leader is 16 minutes behind the leader. This is not as big of a difference as it was in the first two stages.

At the top is N. Al-Attiyah, approaching his second consecutive victory. S. Peterhansel and H. Lategan should take a serious trump card in an attempt to overtake a Cathar at that rate.

10 val. 39 min. Vanagas shares are slowly declining, but the position remains high: the Inbank Toyota Gazoo Racing Baltics is in eleventh place after covering 217 kilometers.

Directed by N. Al-Attiyah. H. Lategan, representative of the Republic of South Africa, was almost three minutes away from him. S. Peterhansel is only 16 seconds behind the second.

E. Juškauskas probably missed … From WP2 to WP3, the Lithuanian lost up to 22 minutes off the leader and Kolkas is 36th. If A. Juknevičius makes no mistakes, he should overtake his compatriot.

10 val. 26 min. After 292 kilometers, A. Gelažninkas is 39, WP5 L. Kancius is still 11. Gintas Petrus WP2 44, A. Juknevičius 37, E. Juškauskas 34.

10 val. 8 min. B. Hawk is dancing in the top ten! After traveling 183 kilometers, the Lithuanian avoided mistakes and probably passed many who followed the road of C. Sainz. 13 minutes behind leader N. Al-Attiyah B. Hawk, Benedict ranks ninth.

9 val. 58 min. Among the main letters, N. Al-Attiyah, S. Peterhansel, and S. Loebo turned aside.

E. Juškauskas (31st) and A. Juknevičius (32nd) reach WP2. A. Gelažninkas WP6 is still 39, L. Kancius is more than half an hour behind the leader at the fourth point, but still 11.

9 pm 49 min. A big mistake by C. Sainz! The Spanish came out so badly that he lost 30 minutes of the leader. Not only him, but also leader Y. Al Rajhi is wrong at 156 kilometers.

9 val. 42 min. B. Vanagas arrived at WP3 on the 14th (+00: 09: 08). He’s four minutes behind the top ten.

9 val. 38 min. A. Gelažninkas is the 39th to cover 217 kilometers (+00: 18: 29). L. Kancius remains 11th after WP3 and 10 minutes behind 10, 19 minutes behind the leader.

Soon we will get the results of B. Vanags from WP3. The fastest corner here was C. Sainz, behind him Y. Al Rajhi (+25 sec.), N. Al-Attiyah (+52 sec.).

9 val. 20 minutes. The first WP1 is the result of E. Juškauskas and A. Juknevičius. The former was faster and currently ranks 26 (+00: 04: 13). Kreda’s crew is ranked 35.

E. Juškauskas also edged S. Petehanselis in the first point, which is now just 29 in WP1. It is true that the Frenchman at the next point was already faster and was a bit in the top ten.

9 val. 15 minutes. B. Hawk no longer mentions the steps of the top ten. The Lithuanian crew is 13 years old, has traveled 88 kilometers, but it should fall. The Inbank Toyota Gazoo Racing Baltics is more than five minutes behind leader Al Rajhi, and China’s 10th-ranked Han Chinese is one minute and 32 seconds away.

9 val. 2 minutes. A. Gelažninkas beats WP4, but his position drops slightly. The Lithuanian is now 37th and 16 minutes behind the leader.

The teams of Edvinas Juškauskas / Aisvydas Paliukėnas and Antanas Juknevičius / Darius Vaičiulis also moved from the starting line in the car class.

8 val. 49 min. It is too early to draw conclusions, but there are many surprises in WP1.

B. Hawk is separated from the top ten by 52 seconds, which is a good result. Sainz is 2 minutes from leader Lategan and Al-Attiyah a minute and a half.

S. Peterhansel, who reached the WP2 point, fell even lower. He lost about a minute from C. Sainz.

8 val. 44 min. B. Hawk captures his first time. The question arises: is the Lithuanian so good or S. Peterhansel so bad today, because the Inbank Toyota Gazoo Racing Baltics team is faster than one of the leaders in the Dakar?

The Lithuanian is more than 3 minutes behind leader H. Lategan and is ranked 12th.

8 val. 34 min. A. Gelažninkas has already covered 137 kilometers and is still 34th (+00: 11: 05).

L. Kancius doesn’t miss the 11th time either, but from 10th position WP2 has already separated him for almost 4 minutes.

8 val. 18 min. B. Vanagas starts in the car class from the beginning. The Lithuanian, who was ranked 15 yesterday, starts today from this position. Leaders who started before him have already reached WP1.

It is interesting that Y. Al Rajhi recorded 1 time, followed by M. Serradori (+22 sec.). Annual leaders N. Al-Attiyah, S. Peterhansel, C. Sainz will still have time to recover.

8 val. 11 min. A. Gelažninkas successfully passes another milestone. The lag behind the leader doubles (+00: 08: 20), but the driver does not lose his position and runs 35º.

7 val. 52 min. L. Kancius came in 11th place in their first leg, but the gap to leader A. Giroudas was 4 minutes this time. That is a better result than yesterday. The distance of 9, 10 positions is even less.

7 val. 35 min. A. Gelažninkas records his first time after 43 kilometers. The rider has not changed position since the start: he runs 34th, 4 minutes behind leader K. Benavides.

Start times:

Motorcycles – Arūnas Gelažninkas – 6 pm 58 min.

ATVs – Laisvydas Kancius – 7 pm 9 min. 30 seconds.

Cars – Benedict Vanagas and Filipe Palmeiro – 8 pm 14 min. Edvinas Juškauskas and Aisvydas Paliukėnas – 8 am. 48 min. 30 seconds. Antanas Juknevičius and Darius Vaičiulis – 8 pm 50 min. Gintas Petrus and Jose Marques – 9 pm 7 min. 30 seconds.



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