RALLY DAKAR 2019

Dakar, Step 1: Nasser al-Attiyah starts in front

The Dakar started with the link from Lima to Pisco, with the first stage having only 84km timed, but enough to create significant differences with Nasser Al-Attiyah Nasser and Matthieu Baumel in their official Toyota Hilux, to smash the competition , leaving second-placed Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz in the X-Raid Mini to 1'59s.
The Qatar rider did not give his opponents any chance and became the rally's first rider.
Just behind Sainz was the Polish Jakub Przygonski, who with Tom Colsoul next to the Mini 4X4 lost only a second to the Spaniard, leaving behind another Toyota Hilux, Valdimir Vasilyev.
The duo Yazeed Al Rajhi / Timo Gottschalk (Mini 4X4) was fifth-placed, 2m28s, with Giniel De Villiers Giniel / Dirk Von Zitzewitz, in the second Toyota Hilux official in the sixth position.
Caution had Stéphane Peterhansele David Castera, in another buggy of the Mini, since more than being only seventh is the lost time in only 84 km, precisely 2:57.
Topping the top 10 were Bernhard Ten Brinke / Xavier Panseri (Toyota), Harry Hunt / Wouter Rosegaar in the best Peugeot 3008 DKR and Cyril Despres / Jean-Paul Cottret in another Mini buggy.
Those who did not do well at the first stage were Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena, who in another Peugeot 3008 of PH Sport, had a difficult day. It is known that the sand was never the 'beach' of the Frenchman, but the truth is that he lost more than six minutes to the winner of the day. DAKAR Motos:The first stage of the 2019 edition of the Dakar is complete, the first of all the history that will take place in only one country. in the case of Peru. Today the competitors had a small section of 84 kilometers timed, after 247 of call, in a journey that left in Lima, capital of Peru, and arrived at Pisco.
A day that served mainly among the front runners to sort out the list for tomorrow, although the traps were very present for the 137 riders who went on the adventure on two wheels. Among them are nine Portuguese pilots.
In this start the first leader was Joan Barreda Bort to the controls of his Honda CRF 450 Rally. The Spanish rider, as is his habit, came with everything in evidence and was always the fastest to pass all the waypoints. In the end, the Honda man beat Pablo Quintanilla by 1m34s, this one in Husqvarna.
They followed Ricky Brabec, another Honda rider, while Adrien Van Beveren in Yamaha and Sam Sunderland completed the top five. Sunderland was the best driver of KTM, which had a more discreet start in Peru. Behind the British were Toby Price and Matthias Walkner, the other pilots of the Austrian navy. Alexandre Melo/José L. Abreu, direto de Portugal