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Various sections of the social media account and media pages discussed Thursday’s difficult wait throughout the night, and the organizers’ description of the wait speed section, which allowed them to “paint” a picture of the challenges of the next day said a lot.
Fifth gear section. From Riyadh to Al Qaisumah
In the fifth phase of the Dakar in 2021, 795 kilometers a day of burning hearts and cold minds awaited the heads, of which 456 kilometers were the speed section, and 270 kilometers to a camp that had been converted into a new hostel, at outside the border between Qatar and Iraq. The fifth stage of the speed section is the first of several difficult days ahead.
More precisely, the first of four difficult race days, two of which await the runners before the rest day on January 9 and the two immediately after, where Dakar participants will be greeted by marathon speed sections.
Track pavement profile: 47 percent. soil, 26 percent. dunes, 25 percent. sand, 1 percent large stones and 1 percent. dry lakes. What does this tell us? In particular, a diverse and rapidly changing speed section of landscape awaited the participants.
The standards of the Dakar are a long and difficult day, which can best be described by a conventional codename: “virtue of patience”, deeply remembered by all. Uncontrolled and not adapted to the conditions dictated by the section of the stage at the right pace, they paid dearly at the expense of the stock of transported wheels and the time they had to sacrifice to change wheels and then grab one competitor after another during an unplanned stop.
On this day, the overall speed was significantly lower than on previous days, and tire pressure control is a critical success factor in reaching the finish line. At least several times over a distance of 456 kilometers, the broken rock sections mix with level I and II dune masses (the Dakar dunes are classified into categories I to III according to their complexity), including fast gravel roads and technically accurate.
More than once during the speed section, the racers, sitting on the armor of the car, felt as if they were sitting on a roller coaster train, flying countless times up to 500 meters and then descending 300-400 meters. And repeating everything again from the beginning.
A very striking feature can tell the complexity of the day in a very visual way. The organizers used the phrase “extra bad” to describe the track’s annoyances to the runners, and translated into human language, the two exclamation points in the road book were the same threat as the three exclamations on the Dakar.
marked with two or three exclamation points to attract the attention of sailors and activate special surveillance) All of this is a particularly difficult and dangerous place.
Starting at 36th, only other racers competing in the same class were waiting in front of the racing duo in this speed section. After three days in which SSV cars, trucks, light prototypes and motobags were mixed up on a starting line, the organizers of the challenges ahead in the fifth gear section decided not to complicate the mix of vehicles of different speeds and dimensions.
“Armored” with patience and inner strength, drowning in dust balls and battling stoned “joys”, the Dakar punk duo rose to the top. Finally, after spending 6 hours and 1 minute on the track, at 3:20 p.m. Lithuanian time, the crew reached the finish line of the fifth speed section, provisionally in 23rd place.
What is that daily evaluation?
“Today we have overcome another good but very difficult day of the Dakar Rally. We didn’t let go of our rhythm and we moved it to the end, beating slower. Traditionally, we have broken a lap, but we are happy to have reached the finish line on the fifth day, ”said Antanas Juknevičius, a rider who gave a brief summary of the day.
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