5/17/2023 0 Comments Baja motorbike![]() The talented young Polish Junior rider, who is following in his father Marek’s footsteps, won the day’s stage by 14min 43.2sec from Great Britain’s Robert Wallace, who retained second overall.ĭabrowski said: “I started ninth after winning the Prologue and that was a good starting position for today. Konrad Dabrowski extended his lead in the motorcycle category to 18min 57.6sec after another dominant stage win on his KTM. The time lost at the scene of the incident was handed back to the Nissan driver after the stage. Despite stopping to assist at the scene of an accident involving Khalid al-Muhannadi and Pedro Santos, the Saudi holds eighth overall. Overdrive Racing’s Juan Cruz Yacopini holds fifth place in his Toyota Hilux and Saudi Arabia’s Khalid al-Feraihi is on course for useful FIA Middle East Baja Cup points. Italian racer Pietro Cinotto incurred time penalties for breaking the power steering on the Prologue and is out of contention for the podium. French rival Jeremie Warnia is second in the class and 11th, while young Pau Navarro is classified in third with his FN Speed Team Can-Am. I see this car last year in Dubai and we decided to drive the T3M this time.”īrazil’s Cristiano de Sousa Batista and Portuguese co-driver Fausto Moto continue to lead the FIA T4 section in their South Racing Can-Am and hold 10th overall. My co-driver did a fantastic job.”Īl-Thefiri added: “We were lost and we saw three ways and we tested them all and then we catch the right way after six minutes. ![]() ![]() A lot of things to see in the stage, cars passing you, different terrain, sometimes sandy, sometimes gravel. The first time in my life in cross-country. My co-driver is one of the best and I trust him and we are happy to lead the T3.”Īl-Thefiri and Oriol Vidal are sixth overall and second in the T3 section with their new MCE-5 T3M and seventh-placed Abdulaziz al-Kuwari and his co-driver Alexei Kuzmich hold third in T3 in the second of the QMMF Rally Team Can-Ams.Ībdulaziz a-Kuwari said: “I am very happy with my first day ever in this kind of rally. I was careful with the rocks and I kept my speed. Is the route okay or not and we followed the right route. Along with French co-driver Francois Cazalet, the QMMF Rally Team’s Can-Am driver now holds a lofty fourth in the overall standings.Īl-Kuwari said: “I am very happy with the result today. Nasser al-Kuwari is better known as an esteemed international co-driver but the Qatari has excelled so far this weekend in the driving seat and has carved out a 4min 02.1sec lead over his usual driving partner Meshari al-Thefiri in the FIA T3 category for lightweight prototype machines after the Kuwaiti suffered navigational issues. The day’s action featured three competitive sections of 117.29km, 46.05km and 70.53km for the cars and a similar distance for the motorcycles and quads with the FIM entrants tackling the shorter two sections first. With Holowczyc reportedly stopped in the second stage of the day with cooling issues on his Mini JCW Rally Plus, that opened the door for the Chinese driver Guoyu Zhang and his Spanish co-driver Oriol Mena to climb into third place with their Baic ORC BJ40, despite one flat tyre. On the next two sections we pushed and are quite happy.” Krotov said: “Today was good. Qatar’s Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel lost the lead to Polish rivals Krzysztof Holowczyc and Lukasz Kurzeja on the longer first stage of the Qatar International Baja yesterday morning and then battled back to set the fastest time on the next one to lead by 2min 33.8sec at the end of the day.Īt the wheel of their borrowed Toyota Hilux, the defending champions now head into the final day with a slim cushion over their team-mates, Denis Krotov and Konstantin Zhiltsov, who hold second place in their Overdrive Racing Toyota Hilux, despite two flat tyres.Īl-Attiyah said: “The first stage was not easy because the road book was not really clear but we made two mistakes that cost 10 minutes.
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