Today\u2019s eighth stage, around the bivouac in Wadi Al Dawasir, shook up the timesheets at the Dakar 2020. Orlando \u201cOrly\u201d Terranova and Bernardo \u201cRonnie\u201d Graue (both ARG) finished third in the MINI John Cooper Works Rally, behind Mathieu Serradori and Fernando Alonso. Jakub \u201cKuba\u201d Przygonski (POL) and Timo Gottschalk (GER) ended the stage in sixth place. The Bahrain JCW X-raid Team crew of St\u00e9phane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR) cameback ninth in the MINI JCW Buggy. Their team-mates Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz were 13th. Although Sainz still holds the overall lead, ahead of Al-Attiyah and Peterhansel, today\u2019s results have seen the gaps between the top three come down.<\/p>\n
The motorcycle and quad competitors remained in the bivouac today, following the death of motorcyclist Paulo Gon\u00e7alves yesterday. This made the stage a major challenge for the co-drivers in the first cars. They were unable to use the tracks of those in front of them to orient themselves, as they would usually. As such, the drivers starting further down the order benefitted even more from the work put in by the crews in front of them.<\/p>\n
Third place on today\u2019s stage allowed Terranova to make up some time on Yazeed Al-Rajhi ahead of him in the overall standings. He was right up there with the leaders throughout the whole of today\u2019s stage, but lost a little time when he had to stop for a puncture. \u201cThe leg was nice and we tried to push,\u201d said Terranova. \u201cUnfortunately, we picked up a puncture behind another car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Przygonski claimed another top-ten finish in sixth place. \u201cToday\u2019s stage was very fast again,\u201d said the Pole. \u201cHowever, there were also a few tricky dunes, which were very soft and offered poor visibility. We briefly went the wrong way once and lost a few minutes as a result. I hope that the coming stages are a little slower again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peterhansel and Fiuza started third, but they had to use all their navigational skills when they found themselves first on the road after roughly 250 kilometres of the stage. Ninth place saw them gain a few minutes on Al-Attiyah and Sainz in the overall standings. \u201cEven with the tracks from the motorcycles, navigation would have been difficult today,\u201d said Peterhansel. \u201cWhen Carlos and Nasser got stuck, we ended up opening the stage. Navigation was so tough that I had to drive a little slower. That allowed some of our rivals to catch us and five of us arrived at the finish at the same time.<\/p>\n
Sainz and Cruz were first into the stage, but lost a few minutes searching for the right route. They also briefly got stuck in the dunes. \u201cWe had to open the stage today and navigation was even more difficult without the tracks from the motorcycles,\u201d Sainz explained. \u201cWe got stuck in the dunes once, after which I pushed hard to try to catch the others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yasir Seaidan (KSA) and Alexey Kuzmich (RUS) were also well set to claim a top result today. However, they got stuck in the dunes a few kilometres out from the finish and lost roughly 40 minutes as a result.<\/p>\n
Sven Quandt: Team Manager X-raid Team:
\n\u201cIt was to be expected that the top three cars in the overall standings would struggle today. The three of them laid down the tracks for those behind them, who picked up a lot of time as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Result SS8*<\/strong> Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Overall result after SS8*<\/strong> Today\u2019s eighth stage, around the bivouac in Wadi Al Dawasir, shook up the timesheets at the Dakar 2020. Orlando \u201cOrly\u201d Terranova and Bernardo \u201cRonnie\u201d Graue (both ARG) finished third in the MINI John Cooper Works Rally, behind Mathieu Serradori and Fernando Alonso. Jakub \u201cKuba\u201d Przygonski (POL) and Timo Gottschalk (GER) ended the stage in sixth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3777,"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-3981","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\/3981","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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. M. Serradori (FRA) \/ F. Lurquin (BEL) Century \u2013 3h 48m 23s
\n2. F. Alonso (ESP) \/ M. Coma (ESP) Toyota \u2013 3h 52m 27s
\n3. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 3h 54m 42s<\/strong>
\n4. G. De Villiers (ZAF) \/ A. Haro (ESP) Toyota \u2013 3h 54m 52s
\n5. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 3h 55m 39s
\n6. J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 3h 57m 52s<\/strong>
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\n9.\u00a0S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 4h 01m 34s<\/strong>
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\n15. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 4h 07m\u00a038s<\/strong>
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\n19. V. Zala (LTU) \/ S. Jurgelenas (LTU) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 15m 12s<\/strong>
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\n21. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 4h 16m 41s<\/strong>
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\n26. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 31m 13s<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 31h 56m 52s<\/strong>
\n2. N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) \/ M. Baumel (FRA) Toyota \u2013 32h 03m 32s
\n3. S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 32h 10m 01s<\/strong>
\n4. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 32h 29m 17s
\n5. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 32h 39m 54s<\/strong>
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\n9. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 34h 34m 10s<\/strong>
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\n16. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 36h 02m 41s<\/strong>
\n17. V. Zala (LTU) \/ S. Jurgelenas (LTU) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 36h 40m 35s<\/strong>
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\n26.\u00a0J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 40h 22m 40s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"