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The participants left Al Kaisum and rolled towards Hail. According to the organizers, sand (55%), dunes (35%) and some dirt (10%) await the rally participants in the speed section.
The stage was successfully completed by the motorcyclist Arūnas Gelažninkas, who surpassed the speed section (347 km) in 3.54: 47 hours. and was ranked 33rd in the overall ranking. In the “singles” category, he beat his main competitor, the leader of the general classification Maurizio Gerini, whose lead over the Lithuanian was reduced to 4:24 min.
On Friday in this class, Frenchman Benjamin Melot probably overcame the distance, which in the last stage kept his brilliant lead over A. Gelažninkas. The Lithuanian, who took second place, was only 5 seconds behind him.
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The Lithuanian crew covered the 347 km speed section in 3.35: 54 hours, 24:33 minutes behind Spanish leader Carlos Sainz.
VANAGAS FINISHED 11TH!
Respectively, Juknevičius 24th, E. Juškauskas – 26th. These crews are assigned 1:22 min.
The hawk fixes on 14 at the last point on the road. The Lithuanian crew had several dozen kilometers to go.
The crew of E. Juškauskas (v. 26) is registered at the fifth point of the way. 56 sec. lags behind the crew of A. Juknevičius (25 years old).
A. Juknevičius provisionally takes 22nd place (238 km, +27: 43 min. Of the leaders). The crew of “Kreda” is second in the Lithuanian ranks.
VANAGAS registers in 15th place after 238 km (WP5). There are less than 100 km. 19:58 minutes behind the leader.
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THE FINISH COMES TO THE FINISH. In the last stage, however, Benjamin Melot held a fragile lead over A. Gelažninkas, who was only 5 seconds behind him. Preliminarily, Lithuanian ranks second in the “bachelor” class. Behind the Lithuanian back 1:35 min. Maurizio Gerini, the absolute leader in this category, was left behind. https://www.facebook.com/iGo2Dakar/posts/956411354891377&width=500&show_text=true&height=657&appId
Motorcycle classification winner: https://twitter.com/dakar/status/1347515407159197699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The last point on the road is reached by A. Gelažninkas, who is currently ahead of M. Gerini and is still the leader in the “lonely” class.
Kancius WP5 (238 km) is set in tenth place (+31: 18 min. From the leader).
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In the A. Gelažninkas motorcycle classification only 1:02 min. goes behind B. Melot, the leader of the “lonely” class, and 1:30 min. surpasses the general leader of the “unique” class M. Gerini.
G.Petrus (108 km each) is 39 (21:14 minutes behind the leaders).
A. Juknevičius (28 years old) and E. Juškauskas (29 years old) travel side by side, the Lithuanian crews are 48 seconds apart.
Hawk 158 km (WP3), fixed in 18th place (14:05 minutes behind the leader).
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VANAGO’s thoughts before the start: https://www.facebook.com/BenediktasVanagas/posts/3573785476020403&width=500&show_text=false&height=282&appId
G. Petrus is recorded in 41 v. (48 km each).
After the first point (48 km), Juknevičius falls to 32nd place (+6: 44 min. From the leader), E. Juškauskas – 31 (+6: 37 min.).
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L. Kancius reached the third waypoint (158 km), 11:52 min. goes behind the leader.
A. Gelažninkas after 202 km (WP4) is still third in the “singles” classification, but M. Gerini is only 1:30 minutes behind his closest competitor, only 19 seconds behind B. Melot.
Juknevičius is provisionally set at 27th place after the first point on the road (48 km).
VANAGAS tentatively set 17th place after the first point on the road (48 km) (it lags behind the leader +4: 13 min.).
TOP3 off-road class (WP3, 158 km). 1. Y. Al Rajhi2. S. Peterhanselis +1: 18 min. 3. N. Al-Attiyah +2: 14 min.
S. Peterhansel (WP3, 158 km) leads in the SUV class, N. Al-Attiyah is second and B. Baragwanath is third.
Edvinas Juškauskas’s crew set out in the first kilometers. Only the duo of Gintas Petraus and Jose Marques had not yet left Lithuania (11.40 min.).
Immediately behind him, the Kreda Juknevičius & Vaičiulis crew started on the kilometers of the speed section.
B. Vanagas has just started.
A. Gelažninkas after 158 km (WP2) a little over 3 min. he is behind the leader of the “lonely” class Maurizio Gerini, second both in this stage and in the general classification.
At the four-wheeler stand, L. Kancius is set in eighth place after 108 km (WP2) (8:30 minutes behind the leader).
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Giniel de Villiers, who won Thursday’s stage, was the first to reach waypoint I.
L. Kancius is ninth after the first stage (5:12 minutes behind the leader).
After the first Arūnas Gelažninkas landmark about 1:30 min. lags behind the competitors – B. Melot and M. Gerini – in the “lonely” class. In the general classification, A. Gelažninkas is ranked 34 (out of 90).
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Lithuania start times: 9.32. – Arūnas Gelažninkas9.40 – Laisvydas Kancius11.29 – Benediktas Vanagas and Filipe Palmeiro at 11.30 am – Edvinas Juškauskas and Aisvydas Paliukėnas11.36 – Antanas Juknevčius and Darius Vaičiulis11.44 – Gintas Petrus and Jose Marques
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VANAGAS registers in 15th place after 238 km (WP5). Less than 100 km to go. 19:58 minutes behind the leader.
“There is another long day ahead and probably the only stretch of sand of its kind in this year’s race. The organizers promise dunes of various sizes and shapes and say that while navigating them, it may be necessary to turn more than one circle and maybe spend the night in them ”, said Darius Vaičiulis, the co-pilot of the Kreda crew, before the new stage.
True, according to the preliminary plan, the participants had to cover the 450 km speed section, but it was reduced to 347 km on Thursday night.
This is believed to have been decided because the slower runners would not return to the bivouac in the morning. There have been cases where some have reached the concentration camp in just 2 hours. of the night.
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