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Experience really showed on Leg 3 of this year’s Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, with two defending Desert Challenge champions enjoying strong performances among the towering dunes.Marc Coma furthered his overall lead in the bikes category while Russian driver Leonid Novitskiy gained his first stage win of the week, which catapulted him to the top of the car standings. Meanwhile, the UAE’s Mohammed Al...

The Repsol rider commands the last special stage and claims his fourth stage victory, his fourth in Egypt and his fourth Cross Country Rally World Championship title.After Friday’s performance that took Marc Coma to the top of the overall standings of the Pharaoh’s Rally, the Repsol rider dominated again in the last special stage of the race, confirming his fourth win in the Egyptian race and his ...

October 9, 2010 Stage 6: Siwa – El Alamein Road connection: 160 km - Special Stage: 240 km – Road connection: 106 km Total: 506 km This morning at 5a.m. under the protection of Orion that shined still high in Siwa´s sky, riders left the bivouac for a long road connection of 160 km. The 240 km of the last special of the 13th edition of FIM Pharaons Rally was release for Marc Coma (KTM 690), who w...

October 8, 2010 Stage 5: Sitra - Siwa Road connection: 1.5 km - Special Stage: 412 km – Road connection: 5.5 km Total: 419 km Siwa, the beautiful oasis of Alexander the Great´s history, who encountered the big oracle of Amon´s Temple, the same that confirms that he was direct descendant of Amon, and a true Pharaoh… The bivouac is next to the lake surrounded by amazing rocks that give an amazing...

Abu Mingar - Sitra, October 7 2010Special Stage: 434km – Road connection: 1.5 km Total:  435 km The stage Abu Mingar – Sitra was announced as exhausting. In fact, it was for many riders because of the high temperatures and the mixed ground.Gerard Farres started first this morning for the first time in his career. He was kind of anxious. We must say that is very impressive to open the roa...

Abu Mingar - Sitra, October 6 2010Special Stage: 434km – Road connection: 1.5 km Total:  435 km A small breeze blew this morning when riders took the start of the third stage of FIM Pharaons Rally. They made 600 m South to join the start while the sun started to climb up on the sky.The day was divided into two special stages, of 170 and 203 km respectively. At the arrival of the bivouac ...

El Rammak – Bir Karawein, October 5Road connection: 1 km - Special: 169 km – Road Connection: 31 km - Special: 202 km Total:  403 kmAfter a first night on bivouac, bike riders have woke up in the early morning to start the 353 km stage at 7 a.m. The menu was varied: dunes, stony roads, sand… FIM Pharaons Rally goes down the South close to Farafra, next to the White Desert, a protected Nationa...

The Repsol rider is fifth in the first stage of the rally, which finishes next SaturdayYesteray the latest Pharaons Rally competition began in Cairo, an event which Marc Coma has won three times (2005, 2006 and 2007) and, in which he will be looking to clock up the necessary points to win a new Raids World Championship. More than 2,500 kilometres await the Repsol rider, 2,175 of which are against ...

Cairo - El RammakRoad connection: 67.92 km - Special: 366.26km - Road Connection: 7.42 km - Total:  441 kmAll competitors of the Pharaohs’ Rally 2010, the last leg of the FIM Cross Country Rally World Championship have left Cairo after a passage by the official start situated in front of the Pyramids. Wearing nº1, Marc Coma has opened the track, followed by all riders of "Open" clas...

Administrative and technical checks in CairoFor the last two days, Pyramids Park Resort Cairo in Giza has been in effervescence. From the restaurant to the parking going to the reception, the hotel is invaded by the organization and the competitors of the 13th edition of Pharaoh's Rally, last round of the 2010 FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. The heat wave and humidity are part of the...