Rain broke all plans in the third stage of Dakar 2023 rally

If in the first two stages of rally " Dakar 2023 " the most difficult was to evade boulders, then on the third day of the races the dominant role played rain. When Dakara's column was traced from Aluli to Haail, the last 100 km of the way were blurred. Even the shortened stage was 377 km/234 miles, and this was more than enough to shift the tables of leaders.

Nasser Al-Attia accepted the call to take a leading position in the race. He started a day for more than two minutes behind the leader of the general standings of Carlos Sinz and ended the third day for more than 10 minutes behind the winner of the stage of Gerlen Shisherit. But thanks to this result, al-Attia took the lead in the overall standings . Now the catarrh and the second Toyota pilot, Matthew Baumel, have an advantage of almost 15 minutes over the nearest opponent.

partly the reason that Al-Attia was able to escape forward was the unhappiness of the Sainz. The Spaniard and his second pilot Lucas Cruise were stopped for almost half an hour on their Audi Rs Q e-tron E2 road to Khail.

The Audi Sport team still has one crew in the top three: Dakar's 14-time winner Stefan Peterhansel and the second pilot Edward Bulange occupy third place.

command Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team USA, presented by BFGOODRICH, continued its strong start with the victory at the Austin Jones stage, and Seth Kintero went out to the leaders in the T3 category after yesterday's victory at Mitsch Gatri Jr. Jr.

Dennis Zenz is leading with an advantage of a minute, and Gatri/Kellon Volch ranks third in the T3 General Classification, ahead of Jones/Gustao by Gustano.

"I am glad that we are now leading in the overall standings! I hope we will continue in the same spirit throughout the remaining part of the remaining rally.

In the third stage, motorcycles were headed by Daniel Sanders with Red Bull Gasgas Factory Racing . The 28-year-old Australian motorcyclist spent the first three days of Dakara, and his award became the second place in the overall standings.

"The idea was to win the stage, catching up with the boys ahead, and it worked very well," Sanders said.

A completely different story happened to Ricky Brapecom, the American joined the list of major favorites that prematurely left the distance. The Honda racer fell and, complaining of pain in the cervical vertebrae, was taken to a hospital in Haia for a further medical examination. Following Sam Sanderland, the rally lost two former winners within three days.

Instead, the third in the class became American Skyler Hous on Husqvarna, and the fourth - the winner of Dakara in 2021 Kevin Benavides.

After this rain, the fourth stage will become even more hot , its length will be 425 km/264 miles. The stage with the loop around the bivuuak Hail begins with the Dun chain, and also has navigation obstacles throughout.

General classification after stage 3

Class T1

1. Nasser Al-Attia (Qat) Toyota 12:20:35
2. yazeed al rajhi (sau) Toyota +13: 19
3. Stefan Peterhanes (FRA) Audi +20: 45

t3 light cars

1. Seth Quintero (USA) CAN-AM 13:52:06
2. Guillaume de Mevius (Bel) Ot3 +01: 01
3. Mitch Gatry (USA) MCE5 +05: 46

t4 ssv

1. Marek Gochal (Poland) Can-Ama 14:30:03
2. Rodrigo Luppy de Oliveira (sco) can-am +09: 36
3. Eric Gotchal (Pol) Can-Ama +31: 15

motorcycles

1. Mason Klein (USA) KTM 14:03:50
2. Daniel Sanders (AUS) Gasgas +01: 48
3. Skyler Hous (USA) Husqvarna +07: 09
4. Kevin Benavides (arg) Ktm +10: 41

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