Nani Roma is fourth on the stage and is third in the Car
Author: Iren Jesica
Polish driver Krzysztof Holowczyc car (Mini) today took the fifth stage of the Dakar in front of American Robby Gordon (Hummer) and Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel (Mini), which still leads overall.
The Spanish Joan ‘Nani’ Roma (Mini) was fourth at nearly eight minutes behind the winner and holds the third place in the classification of the category.
Holowczyc completed the 223 competitive kilometers between the towns and Fiambala Chilecito Argentine in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 51 seconds, a minute faster than Gordon.
The catari Nasser Al-Attiyah (Hummer), who dominated all sets the stage, struggled to the end and lost almost 24 minutes with the winner of the day.
At Hummer Dakar champions will let out a spare tire in the final kilometers and broke a water pipe. Yesterday Al-Attiyah also lost more than twenty minutes stuck in the mud.
The Russian Leonid Novitskiy and Portuguese Ricardo Leal dos Santos finished fifth and sixth day, and completed a round-Mini day, which placed its five drivers in the top six. In general, Peterhansel remains in the top of the standings, but Holowczyc approaching 4:18 and ‘Nani’ is more than ten minutes.
Gordon kept the type for the Hummer is fourth at 13:32 and Peterhansel, while South African Giniel De Villiers (Toyota), who yesterday was second in the table, dropped to fifth position due to mechanical problems.
A Al-Attiyah was still complicating the ability to win the title last year and is eighth to more than 50 minutes from the head of the race. In the sixth stage, which takes place this Friday, the Dakar moved to Chile and the Atacama Desert. After a long link from Fiambala, riders cross the Paso San Francisco, over 4,700 meters high, to enter Chile.
In Chile, the special will start with 247 competitive kilometers to the town of Copiapo. The first installment will be a hardcourt Welcome to the desert and then face four areas of dunes.
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