RALLY DAKAR 2018

Dakar, Step 3: Nasser Al-Attiyah wins, Peterhansel is new leader
Nasser Al-Attiyah wins the third stage of the Dakar, his second this year, after a special that dominated against the Peugeot fleet. The Qatar rider went ahead after the first Waypoint, which was 'won' by Carlos Sainz and from there was always increasing the advantage. That were short between the second and fourth WP, but in the fifth already held 2m30s of advance to Stépane Peterhansel. In the end, finished with more than four minutes of advance. With this result, he climbs to third place in the overall standings, 7m43s behind new leader Stéphane Peterhansel, who is currently second in the standings and new leader of the overall standings, now having 3m11s of advancement for his Peugeot team-mate , Cyril Després, who today was not beyond the fourth place in the stage, losing 7m43s. Carlos Sainz was second and so on to the sixth place overall. Who lost time was Sébastien Loeb, who finished the run at 8'34 "from Nasser Al-Attiyah.Good test is doing the Dutch Ten Brinke, who at the end of three stages is seventh overall, at the controls of his Toyota. rose today two positions. Another driver who has been improving is Martin Prokop in the Ford Ranger, and after finishing yesterday's stage in 12th place overall, today he was quite well and is already ninth.The day was very bad for Mikko Hirvonen, who with one of the new Mini X-Raid buggy had problems at Km 113, losing about an hour and a half. After the accident in which Bryce Menzies completely destroyed his Mini X-Raid buggy, and Yazeed Al-Rajhi hit the Mini All4, he used the Hirvonen buggy which was also late today.

Toyota Hilux burns in flames

José Luis Abreu, Portugal