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The fourth speed section, which crowns a third of the Dakar. From Wadi al Davasir to Riyadh. From south to north, fulfilling the days of shortening and cooling.
In the fourth stage of the Dakar in 2021, the longest distance of this Dakar Rally awaited the soldiers of unbreakable spirit – 813 kilometers, of which 337 kilometers were the speed section, and another 476 kilometers – crossing the public roads until the departure and the camps dictated by the rules of life in the Saudi capital. the beginning of the social bubble, having already crossed the finish line.
Road pavement profile: 65 percent. sand, 31 percent. soil, 4 percent. dunes. Let’s deconstruct this structure turning it into human language.
In terms of the Dakar, there is a short stretch of speed where the organizers did not promise big challenges. Neither the large dunes nor the complex stretches of cobbled road, in the words of the team’s navigator, are just 337 kilometers of “pure racing pleasure.”
In any case, last year the Dakar organizers repeatedly demonstrated that they understood and value the same things by other standards, so it was not possible to relax and lose vigilance, because every mistake could force the riders to pay for the “currency “of the Dakar of the highest quality, on time and positions in the general classification of the car class.
The sandy substance is covered by rapid stretches that run through valleys and canyons, dry riverbeds, occasionally diversified by steep stretches of meandering gravel road, accompanied by short and complex rocky passages and 10-15 km of dune chains.
The plateaus, which have put the skill of the navigators to the test, and the stones that have tried to “exhaust” the general reserve of patience of the crew, as well as the Saudi extensions, have exposed the route of the road and its approaches. Such is the profile description of today’s speed section, which describes what the extreme Dakar adventurers have had to face.
On the starting line of the fourth gear section: meat mincer for trucks, light prototypes and SSV motorcycles
Having reached the finish line in the third stage of the race in the top ten and racing on the road with the power of the Dakar, the representatives of the truck class, today the KREDA team, as in the previous two stages of the section, crossed the starting line after passing several dozen heavy and slow Dakar. car class participants.
The race organizers decided to aggravate the fourth speed section, which did not cause many challenges, by mixing the start times of different vehicle classes and arranging them on a starting line.
Starting in 56th place, 17 SSV trucks, light prototypes and motorcycles lined up in front of the racing duo. The crew of the team had to “arm themselves” with patience and a lot of patience, waiting for the right moment to make one corner after another.
Drowning in the clouds of sand dust, “treating” their bodies with the sandwiches from this verse, the punk duo from the Dakar soared upward. Finally, after spending 3 hours and 3 minutes on the track, at 15:05 Lithuanian time, the crew reached the finish line of the fourth stage, tentatively in 30th place. This is the best result of this duo in this Rally Dakar.
What is that daily evaluation?
“Today we have another good Dakar. We picked up our pace and moved it to the end. We are happy to see the finish line on day four,” said Antanas Juknevičius, a rider who gave a brief summary of the day.
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