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Dakar Rally TICKER: Short News Updates SS02

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Dakar Rally TICKER: First Wevers-Borgward destroyed... but will be back: The Borgward prototype of Erik Wevers rolled yesterday ... but will be back as codriver Anton van Limpt reported. "Just bad luck today. Keep on rolling, but not like this! Believe it or not. Our Mcgyver ErikWevers put it (almost all) together and we finished the stage. Tomorrow back on Dakar track!"

09:47 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: The first 9 trucks finished today´s SS02. Provisionally stagewinner ist the Russian Kamaz-crew of Eduard Nikolaev / Evgeny Yakovlev / Vladimir Rybakov with 03:24:23 hours in front of the Argentinian Iveco crew Federico Villagra / Ricardo Adrian Torlaschi / Adrian Arturo Yacopini (+3:25) and the Czech-Spanish Tatra-crew of Ales Loprais / Lukas Janda / Ferran Marco Alcayna (+6:07). Furthermore in the top5 we can see the Czech Tatra of Martin Kolomy / Jiri Stross / Rotislav Plny (+11:11) and the Dutch second De Rooy Iveco of Ton van Genugten / Bernard der Kinderen / Peter Willemsen (+20:08).

21:31 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Australian Toby Price is happy to be in the overall top 10: "Happy to move up into the Top 10 after our first legit day of navigation from Pisco to Pisco! We got through SS02 reasonably well considering how challenging the soft dunes were, overall I'm feeling fit and healthy after a good day! "

21:23 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Dutch Toyota Hilux Gazoo Pilot Bernhard ten Brinke is looking back positive on today´s dune-stage. "Today was a good day, we made two mistakes which cost us 8 minutes, which is not good but nothing more than that. The Rally has just started and will be still long!"

21:21 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: The Chilenian Ignacio Casale is the stage winner in the Quads category with 04:05:17 hours, he was 1:43 minutes faster than the Russian Sergej Kariakin and 11:51 than the Argentinian Pablo Copetti. The top 5 are completed with the Dutch Kees Koolen (+14:06) and the Argentinian Nicolas Cavigliasso (+15:11).

21:17 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: What a tough stage! Today you can see what´s the difference if you are driving in front or behind - with every participant especially the soft sand in the dunes will be softer and softer and it will be more and more difficult to pass. In the cars at 21:00 CET nearly only the half of the cars finished the stage! While the first car of Cyril Despres (Peugeot DKR) needed 002:56:51 hours, for example the German rookie Markus Walcher (QT Wildcat) is on position 49 with 07:18:07 hours...

21:05 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Lucio Alvarez could finish the stage and will continue. In the dunes he today rolled the car slighty, but with the help of the Argentinian Toyota-Pilot Sebastian Halpern he could get out. "We lost a lot of time but we will be back tomorrow," Alvarez told.

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Today Bryce Menzies and Pete Mortensen from the US crashed with the all-new X-raid Mini Buggy (we reported). Now both reacted after the crash: "Today Pete and myself had a bad crash in Stage 2, rolled the car end over for about 300 yards. The car is not possible to be repaired. I´m ok with bruises and cuts, Pete however suffered a broken ankle. We thank you all for the support in our journey down here. Bummed we couldn´t finish the Rally. Thanks to all of our fans and sponsors for believing in us. We will be back to tackle this race in 2019. Thank you all for the well wishes."

Pete Mortensen said: "I know most of you have seen the photos but I want to tell everyone we are okay. Bryce is a little bruised up and I have a fractured left ankle and bruised ribs. This was the hardest and scariest crash we’ve been in. We are so thankful to be in the safest car out there built by X-Raid. The cockpit didn’t move an inch unfortunately I can’t say the same for the rest of the car. Good news is we live to fight another day. Sorry we let us down this time, but don’t count us out!"

19:45 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: X-raid driver Mikko Hirvonen from Finland (X-raid Buggy) is happy abou today: SS2 "As expected, this stage was very challenging with tricky dune sections. We learned a lot about the car. On one waypoint we lost around two minutes but other than that, we are really happy about the day!" His teammate Nani Roma from Spain (X-raid Mini 4x4) not: "Today it was very difficult and not good for us. This is not what we expected, but it is how it is. Tomorrow is another day - and a better one!"

19:36 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Joan Barreda Bort from Spain has won the second stage of the Dakar with his Honda in 02:56:44 hours, 2:54 minutes in front of French Adrien van Beveren (Yamaha) and 4:24 before Austrian Matthias Walkner. 4th is provisionally French Michael Metge (Honda, -4:39), 5th Argentinian Kevin Benavides (Honda, +5:43).

18:50 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Brazil´s Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin from Team South Racing with their all new Can Am are the provisional stagewinners in the Side-by-Sides category with 04:18:44 hours. Only five SxS finished now so everything is still open. Second eventually are Juan Carlos Uribe Ramos and Javier Uribe Godoy from Peru (Can Am, +8:59) and the French Patrice Garrouste and Swissman Steven Griener (Polaris, +21:57).

18:17 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: As ASO reported, the Sherco-biker Adrien Metge today fell at kilometer 72 and is down with what looks like a broken tibia.

17:52 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: With the Tatra of the Czech Ales Loprais, the Renault Sherpa of the Dutch Martin van den Brink and the Kamaz of Eduard Nikolaev (Russia) the first trucks started in today´s stage.

17:17 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: We just reported about the Sodicars BMW of Isidre Esteve and some days before also about the Lebanon-Team of Jad Comair and Antoine Iskandar, also in a Sodicars BMW. As ASO confirmed, the first Lebanon-Dakar Team had to retire after their crash yesterday.

17:06 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Maybe triple-win for Peugeot! The first cars finished today´s SS02 and without eventually penalties we could see a triple win for Peugeot with Cyril Despres in front, followed by his teammates Stéphane Peterhansel (+48 seconds) and Sebastien Loeb (+3:08). The eventually today´s Top 10: 4) Giniel de Villiers (Toyota, +7:26), 5) Orlando Terranova (Mini, +12:53), 6) Carlos Sainz (Peugeot, +13:09), 7) Mikko Hirvonen (Mini, +13:50), 8) Nasser Al Attiyah (Toyota, +14:51), 9) Martin Prokop (Ford Ranger, +15:04) and 10) Ronan Chabot (Toyota, +16:13).

16:25 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Lucio Alvarez rolled his Overdrive Toyota in the stage and is waiting for the fast assistance. Latest information said that nobody is injured but the car was damaged slightly.

16:12 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: 26-year old dentist Cristina Gutierrez from Spain rolled her car in yesterday´s stage as we heard today. Nobody was injured and the car could be fixed for today´s stage. Two days before the Dakar started we had a big presentation of the youngest girl on four wheels in which she promised she can´t wait to push the pedal... maybe a little too much ;-) We cross the fingers! A short Video of the crash you can see HERE.

16:11 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Honda-biker Joan Barreda-Bort took the lead in the bikes in the first part of the stage. He is 1:04 minutes in front of Arian van Beveren (Yamaha) and 1:05 of Pablo Quintanilla from Chile. The trio is followed by Markus Walkner from Austria (KTM, +1:17) and Franco Caimi from Argentina (Yamaha, +1:43). In the Top 15 the leading bikers are only max. 7:05 minutes away...

15:50 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: All Peugeot are leading again! At 15:15 Cyril Despres is the fastest Buggy, 7 seconds in front of Stéphane Peterhansel, 47 seconds before Sebastien Loeb and 5:18 to Carlos Sainz. The four Buggies are followed by Orlando Terranova in the best X-raid Mini (+5:46), Giniel de Villiers in the first Toyota (+6:34) and his teammate Nasser Al Attiyah (+9:05). Surprisingly 8th is the Czech Martin Prokop with his Ford Ranger prototype (+9:20).

15:15 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Tom Coronel from the Maxxis Team posted live out of the dunes. "We stuck in the dunes and lost one sandboard. Pfffoeee and it's very very hot, we're not the only one here." The sand is very soft, some dunes are very small but high...

15:12 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: The first Side-by-Side reached WP01 of today´s SS02. First are Anibal Aliaga / Juan Pedro Cilloniz from Peru (Polaris) in front of Jose Luis Pena Campo / Rafael Tornabell (+1:43) and the French/Polish team Claude Fournier / Szymon Gospodarczyk (+2:24), both also with Polaris.

14:22 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: At 14:17 CET, Carlos Sainz lost some time and is now 12th with 8:15 minutes behind the actual leader Stéohane Peterhansel. Second and third are also Peugeot with Sebastien Loeb and Cyril Despres, followed by Orlando Terranova in the first Mini and Bernhard ten Brinke in the first Toyota.

14:17 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: MINI DRAMA! As spectators reported, Mini driver Jazeed Al-Rajhi hit his teammate Boris Garafulic's Mini and are waiting for the fast assistance. Meanwhile X-raid reported that the crashed Bryce Menzies and Peter Mortensen are back in the bivouac and both are fine.

14:12 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Four Peugeot took the lead in SS02. In the first timed section, Carlos Sainz is the fastest car, 59 seconds in front of Sebastien Loeb, 1:29 mins in front of Stephane Peterhansel and 1:34 to Cyril Despres. They were followed by Giniel de Villiers in the fastest Toyota Hilux (+2:49) and Orlando Terranova with his Mini (+2:56).

13:36 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: CRASH OF BRICE MENZIES - The #310 pilot from the US crashed his Mini Buggy in the beginning of today´s stage. The car is destroyed but it seems like driver an codriver are ok. Photo: Enrique Naranjo via Twitter @Quique_Naranjo.

13:13 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: At 12:00 CET (06:00 local time) the cars opened today´s SS02, a loop around the city of Pisco. First car in the stage was the Qatari Nasser Al Attiyah with his Toyota, followed by his teammate Bernhard ten Brinke from Holland and the Wevers-Borgward prototype of the Peruvian Nicolas Fuchs. 

12:55 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Welcome to the second stage of the Dakar Rally 2018

Good Morning from South America! Today will be the second stage of the Rally - and the first "real" stage. The participants will again make a loop around the city of Pisco which is 90% off-piste: 65% Sand, 12% Soil, 17% Stones and 6% Vegetation. This exercise in navigation offers the car drivers the privilege of setting off before everyone else... and that means no bike tracks to follow. The risk of bogging is reduced by the relatively cool morning temperatures, but the canyons of the first 40 kilometres of special stage will not make for an easy ride, nor will the series of dunes that follows.

Today the cars will start first at 12:00 CET (6:00 local time), followed by the Side-by-Side at 07:03 local time (13:03 CET), Bikes at 08:34 (14:34 CET), Quads 09:33 (15:33 CET) and Trucks 10:51 (16:51 CET). All groups are driving the same stage: 279 km Liaison, 267 km Stage so 546 km overall.

11:17 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM


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