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Dakar 2018 (Stage 1) – Report / Results

9. January 2018

Andreas Denner

3 min read

The Rally Dakar 2018 has begun. What happened in the first two stages you can find out now.

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The 2018 Dakar Rally begins with desert sand and dunes. The first stage already had it in itself, 272 km it went from Lima to Pisco. The race itself was only 31 km long. Last year’s overall winner of the motorcycle class Sam Sunderland was able to prevail here and won the stage with a lead of 33 seconds on Van Beveren.

Unfortunately, there were the first accidents here. The Portuguese Joaquim Rodrigues crashed and hit his face on the bike. He was flown by helicopter to the clinic and is already on the way to recovery. It also caught the German private driver Jürgen Drössiger. He rode onto another vehicle before the race, crashed and broke his arm. But these were not the only accidents or injuries.

Results Stage 1 Dakar 2018:

POS.	N°	DRIVE-TEAM	MARK-MODEL	TIME	VARIATION
1	1	SAM SUNDERLAND	RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM	00H 20′ 55”
2	4	ADRIEN VAN BEVEREN	YAMALUBE YAMAHA OFFICIAL RALLY TEAM	00H 21′ 28”	+ 00H 00′ 33”
3	10	PABLO QUINTANILLA	ROCKSTAR ENERGY HUSQVARNA FACTORY RACING	00H 21′ 51”	+ 00H 00′ 56”
4	5	JOAN BARREDA BORT	MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM	00H 21′ 52”	+ 00H 00′ 57”
5	23	XAVIER DE SOULTRAIT	YAMALUBE YAMAHA OFFICIAL RALLY TEAM	00H 22′ 02”	+ 00H 01′ 07”
6	2	MATTHIAS WALKNER	RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM	00H 22′ 18”	+ 00H 01′ 23”
7	7	FRANCO CAIMI	YAMALUBE YAMAHA OFFICIAL RALLY TEAM	00H 22′ 26”	+ 00H 01′ 31”
8	33	DANIEL NOSIGLIA JAGER	HT RALLY RAID HUSQVARNA RACING	00H 22′ 28”	+ 00H 01′ 33”
9	19	ANTOINE MEO	RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM	00H 22′ 44”	+ 00H 01′ 49”
10	47	KEVIN BENAVIDES	MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM	00H 22′ 48”	+ 00H 01′ 53”