"Attiyah" Maintains the top of the general ranking of the Abu Dhabi Desert Rally
Abu Dhabi, February 26/ WAM/ The phase of the Toyota (penultimate) phase was launched today from the Abu Dhabi Desert Rally currently held in its 34th edition, as this stage, which started from the fall towards Muzira, specifically at the fortress of Al -Dhafra, the Qatari Nasser Al -Attiyah from the Dashaya Sandraders team retained the top The overall ranking is 41 seconds for its closest Brazilian competitor Luka Morais of the Toyota team Jazo Rising, after achieving third place today.
Erik Guccall of the Over Drive Recing team, who scored his first victory just five days after the start of his career in this category.
The rally competitions will be held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, representative of the ruler in the Al Dhafra region, and organized by the Emirates Motor and Motorcycle Organization and the Abu Dhabi Sports Council.
Although Al -Attiyah maintained the lead, his teammate, Sebastian Loop, was not lucky even though he started the stage in third place and was seeking to advance to the top, and recorded the fastest timing at the 41 km, but he suddenly stopped at the base of a series of sand dunes, He was forced to summon the support team, and despite his exit from the competition for the title, he will be allowed to complete the final stage tomorrow.
In the Shalnger category, the BPR Motorsport team succeeded in maintaining the lead, as Yasser Saeedan won the stage, leading to his teammates, Paul Navarro and Dania Aqeel, who still maintains the general lead, 4 minutes away from Navarro.
In the SSV category, Jeremyas Gonzalez Freuli won the victory, leading to Emirati driver Mansour Ballahi, who recovered from the turbo malfunction during the third stage to finish second.
In the GB motorcycle category, Daniel Sanders, the Red Bull KTM Factory team, expanded the difference in the overall ranking to 7 minutes and 23 seconds for Monster Energy Honda, Ricky Prabik, while his teammate Luciano Benavidis came third.
Sanders achieved his victory in today’s stage, a difference of more than 3 minutes against his opponent, Adrian Van Beverin of Monster Energy Honda, to win his fifth continuous victory in one round of the World Desert Rally Championship round Hiro Motorsports.
In the Rally 2 category, South African Michael Dukarti of the SRG Motorsport team in Dubai achieved his fifth victory in the fifth stage of the Abu Dhabi Desert Rally, to become the first contestant in his category to complete a clean sweeping for all stages in a round of the long desert rally championship rounds, Aheads on Conrad Dabrovsky of the Dost Rally and Martin Ventura team From the Old Friends Rally team.
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