Bikes:
Coma and depression happening today is the same navigation error, they take a section in the wrong direction and must eventually turn. Prior to the stage now, the Yamaha team has changed the engines. Jordi Viladoms has still not changed, nor why he conceded only 15-minute time penalty he is currently on the 4th Place overall. Through the navigation error of coma and depression at the beginning of the stage to reach the two KTM's goal today only as a second or third. The day's victory today, though just barely, to Joan Barreda Bort on a Husvarna, this is his first stage victory. In the overall standings will not change much, Coma is still second behind depression, but it lacks only 21 seconds.
Quads:
The patron Ellis walk the rest of the rally obviously very loosely to both about 13 minutes behind Maffei come to the finish, the overall classification remains the same Alejandro continues with a clear lead. Marcos Patronelli, however, should be slowly accelerated again, he has only about 18 minutes ahead of today's stage winner and overall third Maffei.
Cars
Most is going on with the cars, however, primarily off the track. The officials by surprise today with a hammer message: Robby Gordon was disqualified. He goes further, however, because he has appealed. Final determination of the Dakar, so perhaps in Paris on "green table", which would obviously be an ugly exit for the Dakar. According to the Commissioners is a system that is actually responsible for the tire air pressure regulation, by the way also used to inject additional air after the air restrictor in order to generate more power, there is even a nitrous oxide injection, the speech. According to Gordon, the system does nothing more than to change the tire pressure while driving and was taken off the case even before the last Dakar compliant with the rules.
Also on the track it is now getting hot, the third so far Krzysztof Holowczyc has placed its power steering pump on the route change, with a towing test pulls the tow rope and damaged his radiator. Currently, he is only listed at # 13 with nearly 6 hours behind. To give a tough fight today Peterhansel and Robby Gordon out. Gordon missed a measuring point and must travel a loop, thus he met on the track directly with Peterhansel and provides a kilometer pursuit race with the X-Raid Mini. Gordon is clearly faster but Peterhansel makes the Hummer is not over despite sentinel warning. In one of the mood was the same hard to overtake Gordon then damaged two tires and a track bar, Gordon is acidified after the stage clearly. He loses about 15 minutes on Peterhansel's and a total of 19 minutes behind only third in the overall standings. And of course, as long as Paris has not been decided, only provisional. Joan Roma won the stage today, just ahead of Peterhansel. On the third landing Giniel De Villiers, the panel is close to the Toyota is now within reach, should be disqualified Gordon really good.
Trucks
In the meantime, another Kamaz truck is no longer there, the 504 suffered an engine failure yesterday. Meanwhile, it also give more information about the accident from the Tatra Loprais, apparently he has handed over control to a special stage due to exhaustion of his passenger. This in turn was apparently also not really fresh, because the accident happened by a second's sleep. Balance is destroyed Tatras, spinal injuries and a concussion Loprais with a passenger.
De Roy defends his lead and, although he initially at the stage of the previous day einbiegt, but today he is only third, but by the resignation of the Tatras, he has a good hour ahead of the overall second, Hans Stacey. First and Second place today and go to the Kamazpiloten Ardavichus Karginov.
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