Dakar 2009: Neuquen - San Rafaël, stage 5
Dakar 2009: Neuquen - San Rafaël, stage 5

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Video: Dakar 2009: Neuquen - San Rafaël, stage 5
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Today, the American pilot Jonah Street has claimed the first partial victory stage in a Dakar and is shaping up to be a serious contender for the final victory. Street has finished four of the five races in the top ten, and his perseverance places him second overall, just over twenty-seven minutes behind Marc Coma. For his part, the Spanish pilot has punctured at kilometer 45 and has had to stop to change the camera. Luckily, the proximity of Viladoms has allowed him to give up his wheel and thus repair the bike first. At the finish line, he entered ninth giving 16 minutes to Jonah.

Due to the puncture, Després managed to recover fifteen minutes from the Spanish rider, until he reached CP1, where Cyril himself suffered a puncture, losing that advantage and adding seven more minutes to the passage through CP2. On a good comeback and favored by Coma problems In the last kilometers of the dunes with the rear brake, the Frenchman cut Marc one minute in the general classification, reaching the end of the stage in eighth position.

Marc Coma
Marc Coma

Chilean Francisco "Chaleco" López was the one who led the way throughout the race, but at the end of the stage, he had no choice but to give in to the push of the North American rider. And he even lost the second position to the benefit of the Dutch Frans Verhoven.

Jordi Viladoms finished behind Marc Coma in tenth position, getting back to exercising perfectly Marc Coma's squire work.

  • Stage classification:

    • 1 Street (USA) KTM 06:41:06
    • 2 Verhoeven (NLD) KTM +00: 05: 53
    • 3 López (CHL) KTM +00: 07: 34
    • 4 Casteu (FRA) KTM +00: 09: 36
    • 5 Rodrigues (PRT) KTM +00: 10: 35
    • 6 Frétigné (FRA) YAMAHA +00: 11: 12
    • 7 Ullevalseter (NOR) KTM +00: 14: 38
    • 8 Despres (FRA) KTM +00: 14: 46
    • 9 Coma (ESP) KTM 00:15:45
    • 10 Viladoms (ESP) KTM +00: 26: 30
  • General ranking:

    • 1 Coma (ESP) KTM 21:38:12
    • 2 Street (USA) KTM +00: 27: 12
    • 3 Frétigné (FRA) YAMAHA +00: 39: 09
    • 4 Ullevalseter (NOR) KTM +00: 57: 22
    • 5 Viladoms (ESP) KTM +01: 06: 42
    • 6 Rodrigues (PRT) KTM +01: 17: 54
    • 7 Verhoeven (NLD) KTM +01: 24: 01
    • 8 Casteu (FRA) KTM +01: 31: 51
    • 9 Knuiman (NLD) KTM +01: 34: 41
    • 10 Despres (FRA) KTM +01: 36: 08
    • 30 Herrera Doors (ESP) KTM +04: 57: 01
    • 47 Villarrubia García (ESP) GAS-GAS +07: 01: 22
    • 49 Gómez Pallas (ESP) HONDA +07: 04: 47
    • 60 Farrés Güell (ESP) KTM +08: 03: 53
    • 63 Sánchez Tapia (ESP) KTM +08: 20: 16
    • 71 Penate Muñoz (ESP) KTM +08: 53: 42
    • 72 Warrior (ESP) KTM +08: 56: 11
    • 81 Guasch (ESP) KTM +10: 03: 37
    • 91 Pedrero García (ESP) KTM +11: 22: 02

Today is another day in which the Spanish army does not suffer any abandonment.

What we did not tell you yesterday:

David casteu
David casteu

In this way, David Casteu ran the stage yesterday after the previous day, in the link section, a mosquito bites him on the lower eyelid of the eye. He was about to leave, but thanks to an perfusion and a clay poultice in his eye, he was able to dispute the stage and even he allowed himself the luxury of finishing fourth. With his goggles wrongly fitted and his helmet lopsided, the "one-eyed rider" made a point of continuing in the Dakar.

Kemal Merkit, during the second stage, will remember all his life the ordeal he had: his engine said enough five kilometers from the finish line. He managed to reach her by pushing her over a soft sandy ground, but I still had to travel 600 kilometers of link. And thanks to a score of pilots he succeeded, as they were each towing him a few kilometers. He arrived at camp at three in the morning, woke up the KTM mechanics to sell him an engine, and put it on the bike, in time to go out again. Yes indeed, like a few weeks ago he broke his left wrist, says he has had a bad time during the third stage. There are those who descend directly from Gods.

Similar luck ran Pierrick Bonnet, who traveled those 600 kilometers at 50 per hour. Back in the camp, he tried to locate the fault, but what he needed was a new engine, which he bought from KTM and installed, also just in time to start the third stage. Is he made of the same caste as Kemal?

And finally, the summary of the fourth stage:

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Profile stage 6 Dakar 2009
Profile stage 6 Dakar 2009

Today, stage of 625 kilometers, 395 special, between San Rafaël and Mendoza. The first section of 50 kilometers, will be an erg of dunes to then cross fast areas of salty lakes alternated with areas of potholes and ravines. They will have to wade a river from which at the moment it is unknown if it will be possible due to the depth. The proximity of the Andes will make them cross a height of 2,700 meters.

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