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Originally Posted by fcevolini  This is the Dakar Rally Raid! Now Peterhansel and last year winner Alphand are leading the race.
"It was an amazing day," said Alphand. "We saw De Villiers stopped and thought it was good for us. But I knew that Stéphane was pushing. Then we saw that he had stopped as well and I knew that we would have to lift off, because my turn for some bad luck may have been just around the corner. Then Sainz, Miller and Stéphane caught me. My pace was not so fast. They passed me and then Carlos stopped again with Miller alongside. Then I saw Stéphane and we finished the stage! Amazing…"
I saw yesterday on TV the highlights for this Marathon (without assistance) stage and it is incredible to see how fast are VW Tuareg on hard track, taking the advantage of their 2.5 Turbo Diesel Engine and lighter car. Unluckily for them, they paid too much their reliability problems, all engine and electronic related.
Maybe Turbo Diesel Engines are too much weakly for a such hard competition? |
Maybe they are too weak, now...but surely they were fast...let's see next time!
and what about BMW X Raid? very close too...