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Dakar 2015: San Juan - Chilecito, stage 3
Dakar 2015: San Juan - Chilecito, stage 3

Video: Dakar 2015: San Juan - Chilecito, stage 3

Video: Dakar 2015: San Juan - Chilecito, stage 3
Video: Stage 3 - Car/Bike - Stage Summary - (San Juan - Chilecito) 2024, March
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Today unfortunately, the results of the third stage of the Dakar 2015 are in the background after knowing the death of Polish motorcyclist Michal Hernik during the course of the third stage. The causes of this sad news are unknown at the moment and it has only transpired at this time that he was found dead on the track. Rest in peace.

On the sporting level and after yesterday's tough stage, today the riders They have been able to take it a little more calmly. Well, as calm as it can be to do a stage of the Dakar. Even so and just like yesterday, the organization decided to neutralize part of the stage and assigning the runners farthest behind the same time to prevent them from being left little by little along the route as a result of accumulated fatigue since some have hardly had time to rest between the stages.

Profile Stage3 Dakar2015
Profile Stage3 Dakar2015

And as if it were a premonition when yesterday we said that hey with Matthias walknerToday the Austrian took the stage against all odds. After what Joan Barreda Dominating the first third of the route, the motocross champion has been reducing the differences until he took the lead and reached the finish line located in Chilecito with the best time.

The differences between the pilots today they have not been elevated and thus, he has only been able to take 40 seconds out of Marc Coma who pressed at the end of the special and got second to also cut a little more than a minute to Joan Barreda. Another of the newbies with the possibility of doing something outstanding is the Australian we are also talking about, Toby Price, who has placed fourth on the stage by four seconds over Paulo Gonçalves.

Eat Stage3 Dakar2014
Eat Stage3 Dakar2014

Back in the top ten Jordi Viladoms, ninth to four and a half minutes and Juan Pedrero, with one more minute of disadvantage. Laia sanz has returned to get into the top twenty with a seventeenth position. The rest of the outstanding Spaniards today have been Txomin Arana the twenty-eighth and Marc guash the thirty-third.

In the general few changes except that Marc Coma rose to fourth position less than eleven minutes behind Joan Barreda, who is still leading, followed by Paulo Gonçalves and Matthias Walkner, who slipped into third position. Viladoms seventh, Pedrero tenth and Laia sixteenth.

Barreda Stage3 Dakar2014
Barreda Stage3 Dakar2014

In the quads, problems for the favorite Ignacio Casale who lost the second position in the general classification after the victory of Lucas Bonetto, the second place of Sebastián Halpern and the third position of Lucas Sonic who continues to lead the provisional general.

Finally and in the cars, Orlando Newfoundland he has been a prophet in his land, winning the third stage ahead of Giniel de Villiers and Al-Attiyah. The Qatari continues to lead the classification.

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Dakar 2015: statements by the protagonists

Matthias Walkner:

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Dakar 2015: tomorrow's stage

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Route Stage4 Dakar20153

Tomorrow, fourth stage between Chilecito and Copiapó, with the entry into Chile, the desert of Atacama, the arrival to the Pacific Ocean and although in the link section, the Paso San Francisco at 4,800 meters of altitude. Some will sleep in the dunes.

In all, a new beating of 909 kilometers with 315 of them timed. The start of the stage is scheduled at 4:30 in the morning (8:30 in the peninsula) and the start of the special at 12:45 (16:45 in Spain) to arrive approximately three and a half hours later.

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