The second marathon stage of the 2016 Rally Dakar showed just how tough the extreme conditions of the race are. Race organizers today decided to cut short the timed special halfway through. The ninth stage held in Fiambalá today was a wretched one....
Stage 9, a loop stage around Belen, Argentina, was the second one in the dunes. The originally 285 km long special was shortened to 174 km due to the extreme heat but even this didn’t make the day much easier. This can also be confirmed by the crew...
Today, competitors experienced the real Dakar during this loop Belen – Belen. The journey was mostly off-road, in small dunes with some vegetation, then harder terrain and a riverbank. This special stage was also announced to be challenging navigation...
The spirit of Dakar, for anyone who has followed the rally for the last decades, is this: huge sand dunes, sweltering heat and few references by to orientate in navigation. That is what the participants of the 2016 Dakar faced in their arrival to the dreaded...
Carlos Sainz is not the type of man to miss an opportunity a second time. Deprived of victory yesterday by 12 seconds, today he won a stage shortened due to the extreme heat by a similar margin of 10 seconds. The Spaniard triumphed on top of a new-look...
After a shortened but action-packed stage today, the PEUGEOT 2008 DKR still occupies first and second places in the overall classification. Carlos Sainz now leads in front of Stéphane Peterhansel. Because of extreme heat that took its toll on the motorbike...
Qatari driver Nasser Al-Attiyah predicted that the desert stages in the Fiambala region would prove decisive in the outcome of the rally, and with big drama from the two desert stages held so far, he has proved his point. Today’s action took the competitors...
Actually, today’s stage should have featured the first true dunes but once again, the weather changed the Dakar schedule. This time, however, extremely high temperatures were the problem. Temperatures so high that the organisers felt impelled to stop...
