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Nani Roma is fourth on the stage and is third in the Car
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. Read the rest of this entry »