Dakar-2019, phase 3: failure of IVECO and KamAZ offensive

The third stage of the Dakar has become a real tragedy for many bikers and cars. After seeing this action, the riders on the trucks decided not to be left behind.

The winner of the first two stages, Eduard Nikolayev, at KamAZ at the start of the 331km distance took the best pace and held out for a long time on the first intermediate position. However, between the second and third checkpoints, he lost more than ten minutes, which no longer allowed him to reach the finish line.

The best of this mistake was made by teammate Andriy Karginov. He managed to defeat at the stage, which allowed him to narrow the gap to Nikolayev at nine minutes. In addition, Dmitry Sotnikov played successfully, which, after the day, lost Eduard for less than nine minutes

. Good news for them: Federico Villagra is very well behaved. Last year, he almost fought for the win. Argentina maintained a steady pace and obtained intermediate scores even in front of Nikolaev for seven minutes. But closer to the finish, he loses some time. Although Villagra lost a special place at the expense of Korginov, he finally played for Nikolaev for a few minutes and now only loses 5.17 (19659002), but Gerard de Roi had a big trouble. The Netherlands was considered Nikolayev's main rival, but today is "taken" an hour and a half before the third checkpoint. Even this delay compared to trucks can still be played (at least you can at least get on the podium), but De Roy's situation has deteriorated considerably.

Another IVECO pilot, Ton van Genutten, also lost an hour. In the second stage, he loses half an hour, the general shift does not allow him to really dream of a victory.

In the composition of KamAZ, his position is aggravated by Ayrat Mardeev, who loses more than an hour.

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Even after the arrival of Nikolayev and Sotinikov, they made time to help riders start motorcycles and off-road cars stuck in a tight place and blocking the passage for them. other.

Preliminary results of SD3, trucks: [19659011] Pos The pilot The truck The time 1 Andriy Karginov KamAZ 4 : 26.29 2 Dmitry Sotnikov Kamaz + 04.30 3 Eduard Nikolayev KamAZ + 05.06 4 Federico Villagra IVECO +11,55 5 Martin Mattick LIAZ +17.25