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The Spanish girl’s fuel tank was holed, leaving her without fuel 30 kilometres from the finish. Marc Guasch stopped to transfer fuel from his bike to Laia’s, but this cost them a lot of time. Laia had moved up 24 places at the time of the incident. A complicated day for Laia Sanz. The 11 times Women’s Trial World Champion finished the fourth stage (San Juan – Chilecito) in 86th place, the ...

STAGE 4 : SAN JUAN - CHILECITO Road connection: 269.84 km – Special Stage : 326.13 km - road connection: 153.94 km Total : 749.91 km San Juan - Chilecito was one of the most beautiful stages of the Dakar according to the Sport Director of the race, David Castera. In fact, the landscapes changed and we left behind crops and sierras. The region has more hills with magnificent r...

Stage 3: SAN RAFAEL – SAN JUAN Road connection: 289 km – Special Stage: 270 km – Road connection: 2 km – Total: 561 km The Dakar´s third stage changes its landscape and attacks the Andes Mountains with a passage over 3000 m for riders that did not took the same track that cars, and had 62 more kilometers to complete the stage. Rough tracks, stony “ríos”, and most of all, a magnificent spectac...

The rider from Corbera has come through a very tough stage marked by high temperatures and now holds 56th place. Dust in the air is turning out to be one of the greatest difficulties that the competitors have to face. The second stage of the Dakar Rally 2012 was more exacting than the competitors expected. The very long sections travelled by the riders in two days were tedious and monotonous,...

Stage 2: Santa Rosa de la Pampa – San Rafael Road connection: 487 km – Special Stage: 295 km Total: 782 km The Dakar´s second stage arrived to San Rafael, in the region of the renowned wine yards of Mendoza. The heat wave reigns since yesterday with the high temperatures for the whole rally caravan. The special stage was different for bikes that completed more kilometers than cars and ove...

Sunday, January 1st Stage 1 : Mar del Plata – Santa Rosa de la Pampa Road connection: 149 km – Special Stage: 57 km – Road connection: 614 km – Total: 820 km Competitors of Dakar 2012 woke up very early. The first bike, Marc Coma, left the Parc Fermé in Mar del Plata at 5.45 a.m. this morning. Even if the stage to get to Santa Rosa de la Pampa was long – more than 800 kilometers – the spec...

This year, once again, the Dakar is full: 433 racing vehicles will take the start. 178 bikes and 30 quads among them! Nevertheless, there are important novelties for this 2012 edition. The Dakar starts in Mar del Plata, the famous and beloved beach of the Porteños – about 500 km South from Buenos Aires – before reaching the finish line in Peru´s capital city, Lima! So, today is Dakar´s huge part...

Argentina, Chile and Peru. Those are the countries that will see the pass of the Dakar caravan through their landscapes and deserts in the edition that will start next Sunday, January 1st, 2012. In the motorcycles category, a name stands out above all the others, Marc Coma. The Repsol rider, three times winner of the Dakar, travels to South America with a clear aim: to achieve in Lima his second c...

A mechanical failure during the first stage leaves the Repsol rider out of the fight for the overall victory, but he was able to win two legs. The countdown for the 2012 Dakar has already started and, in the final phase of the preparations, Marc Coma took part this week in the Morocco Rally. He did not start in the best way as he was out of competition due to a mechanical failure 20 kilometres b...

Helder Rodrigues toasted a fantastic FIM Cross Country Rally World Championship victory on his WR450F thanks to second position in the Pharaoh’s Rally in Egypt last weekend. The Portuguese led the four round series coming into the hot and testing terrain and completed an emphatic 100% podium record for the 2011 campaign to lift his first FIM title.  Rodrigues had finished as runner-up in Abu...