St\u00e9phane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR), in the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy, have given the Bahrain JCW X-raid Team another reason to celebrate. Following Carlos Sainz\u2019s stage win yesterday, they took victory on leg four from Neom to Al-`Ula. This is the third success for a car built by X-raid at this year\u2019s Dakar. Sainz and Lucas Cruz (both ESP) finished third in the MINI JCW Buggy today.<\/p>\n
Jakub \u201cKuba\u201d Przygonski (POL) and Timo Gottschalk (GER) came home eighth in the MINI John Cooper Works Rally. Two places behind followed Orlando \u201cOrly\u201d Terranova and Bernardo \u201cRonnie\u201d Graue (both ARG), who also drive a MINI JCW Rally. The two MINI JCW Rally crews Denis Krotov (RUS) \/ Dmytri Tsyro (UKR) and Yasir Seaidan (KSA) \/ Alexey Kuzmich (RUS) finished their MINI JCW Rally in places 16 and 18.<\/p>\n
Peterhansel and Fiuza took the lead early in the stage. They progressed without any major issues, which allowed them to keep the opposition at bay through to the finish. Today\u2019s stage win sees the duo climb to third place in the overall standings. \u201cI am very pleased with the stage win,\u201d said the Frenchman. \u201cToday was our best day so far as we did not make many mistakes and only briefly strayed from the right route. We had to stop once for a puncture. The final 60 kilometres were a real test: soft sand with big stones and difficult navigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
After yesterday\u2019s win, Sainz and Cruz had to open the stage today. At first, the other competitors were able to benefit from their lines. However, the MINI JCW Buggy crew called on all its experience in the final few kilometres to finish third. \u201cThe final 100 kilometres were the toughest I have ever encountered in my Dakar career,\u201d said Sainz. \u201cIt was extremely rocky and the route was very difficult to find. Getting through a stage like that without any major problems is like a victory. I am so happy to have reached the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Przygonski and Gottschalk took a slightly more cautious approach on the rocky terrain and ultimately finished ninth. \u201cWe started second and only had Carlos ahead of us. It felt as though we were opening the stage,\u201d the Pole explained. \u201cWith the buggy, he takes a different line than us. At first, there were such big stones on the route that we were perhaps a little too slow. However, after two punctures, it was more important for me to get through to the finish than to speed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomorrow\u2019s fifth leg takes the competitors to Hail. After an 80-kilometre liaison stage, the drivers face a 353-kilometre special stage. Here, they can predominantly expect sand, dunes and more rocks. They then have a further 130 kilometres to the bivouac.<\/p>\n
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Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Result SS4*<\/strong> Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Overall result after SS4*<\/strong> St\u00e9phane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR), in the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy, have given the Bahrain JCW X-raid Team another reason to celebrate. Following Carlos Sainz\u2019s stage win yesterday, they took victory on leg four from Neom to Al-`Ula. This is the third success for a car built by X-raid at this year\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-en","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3976,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 4h 04m 34s<\/strong>
\n2. N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) \/ M. Baumel (FRA) Toyota \u2013 4h 07m 00s
\n3. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 4h 11m 52s<\/strong>
\n4. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 4h 16m 04s
\n5. M. Serradori (FRA) \/ F. Lurquin (BEL) Century \u2013 4h 17m 51s
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\n8. J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 23m 57s<\/strong>
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\n10. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 26m 56s<\/strong>
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\n16. D. Krotov (RUS) \/ D. Tsyro (UKR) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 37m 08s<\/strong>
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\n18. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 40m 29s<\/strong>
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\n20. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 4h 46m 07s<\/strong>
\n21. V. Zala (LTU) \/ S. Jurgelenas (LTU) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 50m 31s<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 15h 12m 12s<\/strong>
\n2. N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) \/ M. Baumel (FRA) Toyota \u2013 15h 15m 15s
\n3. S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 15h 23m 54s<\/strong>
\n4. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 15h 35m 22s
\n5. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 15h 35m 25s<\/strong>
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\n10. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 16h 42m 37s<\/strong>
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\n12. V. Zala (LTU) \/ S. Jurgelenas (LTU) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 16h 50m 50s<\/strong>
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\n17.\u00a0D. Krotov (RUS) \/ D. Tsyro (UKR) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 17h 23m 29s<\/strong>
\n18. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 17h 32m 47s<\/strong>
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\n34.\u00a0J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 21h 46m 08s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"