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The Spanish rider continues to extend her fame with notable success in overcoming one of the hardest challenges that can face a woman on two wheels.Laia was the only woman biker to finish the rally and she repeats the 39th place she won last year.The Gas Gas rider had to contend with an injury to her right hand after a fall in the fourth stage and then go on alone after the ninth, when her backup ...

The Dakar 2012 was one of the hardest editions of the classic rally raid race in South America. Camelia Liparoti completes more than 8 000 kilometers and arrives to Lima in the 9th position overall.“It was a very demanding Dakar,” says the rider while she waits to go through the final podium in located in the Plaza de Armas of Lima. “I made it! With all its difficulties I made it with my Yamaha qu...

STAGE 14 : PISCO – LIMA Road connection: 134 km – Special Stage: 29 km – Road connection: 120 km – Total 283 km The Dakar 2012 is over. Cyril Despres (KTM) is the new champion and takes the victory in front of Marc Coma (KTM) who´s luck left him alone and Helder Rodrigues (Yamaha) that confirmed his high potential. Only 97 riders arrive to Lima out of the 178 that took the start in Argentina. I...

Just before finishing the second liaison, the MRW rider is runner-up after winning five stages and despite having a mechanical failure that prevented him from continue fighting for victory With the last 29 timed kilometres already done and before finishing the last liaison, Marc Coma finishes in second position in a new Dakar edition. Always spectacular, the race was one more year a titanic ro...

Saturday, January 14 STAGE 13: NASCA – PISCO Road connection: 96 km – Special Stage 275 km – Road connection: 4 km – Total: 375 km The last big special of the Dakar 2012 was far from being simple for competitors. For leaders, Marc Coma started in front of Barreda and Viladoms. Cyril Despres, fourth to take the start, had evidently an advantage over the Catalonian who must open the road. Coma wor...

STAGE 12: AREQUIPA - NASCA Road connection: 259 km - Special Stage: 245 km – Total: 505 km The village of Nasca, well-known in the world due to its lines traced in the ground more than 2000 years ago, receives the 12th stage of the Dakar. Riders slept at Camana, 150 km from Arequipa and this morning had a shorter road connection than cars to get to the start of the special stage. The timed ...

The Gas Gas rider is putting up a splendid performance in the second half of the race.“Today I finished exhausted, but I am very pleased with the work done in a very tough stage”.Laia Sanz finished the eleventh special in 39th place, another great result for her, continuing her improvement in the general classification so that she is now in 40th place, just one place from equalling her result in l...

Stage 11: Arica - ArequipaRoad connection: 90 km – Special Stage: 148 km – Road connection: 130 km  - Special Stage: 255 km – Road connection: 82 km – Total: 705 kmThe Dakar is now in Peru, the 27th country crossed by this race since its beginning! The physiognomy of people changes; in the markets, women wear typical hats, and in the road to Arequipa, the crowd was out for the party to watch ...

She successfully passed through the two trickiest navigation points in the stage, never doubting which way to go.The Catalan rider stopped to help a Turkish rider who had suffered an accident in the last part of the stage.Laia Sanz continues advancing at a good pace in her route to the finishing line in Lima. The Gas Gas rider again managed the special with intelligence, taking no risks and finish...

Road connection: 68 km – Special Stage: 376 km – Road connection: 249 km – Total: 694 kmIquique – Arica is the last stage in Chile before crossing the border to Peru. Competitors descended to the south to take a special stage where the landscape between the ocean and the dunes was amazing. After it, a fesh-fesh area that reminded them that they were well at the Dakar, the hardest race of the world...