On January 16, the competition for the penultimate stage of the 2020 Dakar Rally ended. The 13th champion Peter Hansel won the stage championship with a slight advantage of 10 seconds over Qatari Prince Atiyah. Ranked third, Alonso ranked 8th, Han Wei ranked 9th. In the overall score list, Sainz still has a 10-minute lead, Attia and Peterhansel are ranked 2nd and 3rd, Han Wei is 10th, and Alonso is 13th.
The SS11 stage ends from Shubaytah to Harad. The total length of the event is 744 kilometers, of which the special stage reaches 379 kilometers. The first 80 kilometers are carried out in the most beautiful desert in Saudi Arabia.
The eleventh stage is the last marathon schedule of this event. According to the rules of the event, the drivers in the marathon stage will not be able to use external force to repair the car. Although yesterday’s stage was suspended early, only the team members were allowed to repair the car that night, which increased the probability of car failure to a certain extent.
As for the Chinese drivers, the No. 322 Han Wei/Liao Min team of the Geely Shell Lubricant Team won the 9th place in the stage with a time of 4 hours, 33 minutes and 04 seconds, and the total score rose to 10th. The top ten Chinese drivers in the Kaer car group. On behalf of the Hard Tiger racing team, Jin Jianyun/Ma Wenke also successfully completed their first Dakar Marathon stage, and their overall score rose by one place, ranking 23rd. Ruan Quan of Jiujiang Racing Team won the 40th place in the stage.
In the motorcycle group, Chilean driver Quentalia won the stage championship with a time of 4 hours, 9 minutes and 22 seconds. Chinese driver Zackel Yakepu ranked 43rd, Zhao Hongyi ranked 55th, and Zhang Min ranked 67th. In the overall score list, American star Ricky Babick continued to lead and held a lead of nearly 14 minutes. Chilean driver Quentalia and Australian Toby Price ranked second and third respectively. Babick Has a great chance of winning. As for Chinese drivers, Zakel Yakepu ranked 42nd, Zhang Min ranked 51st, and Zhao Hongyi ranked 64th.
In the four-wheel motorcycle group, the Polish driver Rafal Sonic took the lead in 5 hours, 22 minutes and 18 seconds against the famous Chilean Casalle, but in the overall score list, Casalle still has a 21-minute lead. The championship is almost in the bag. In the truck group, the unshakable Russian combination still dominates the list. Kardinov, Stonikov and Sbarov of the Kamaz team are in the top three, and Kardinov is also on the overall score list has a huge advantage of nearly 40 minutes. In the SSV group, Chilean driver Contador won the stage championship, but American driver Cassie Curry has a huge advantage of 45 minutes in the overall score list, and has almost locked this year’s Dakar championship ahead of schedule.
The last day of the race is 447 kilometers in length, including 374 kilometers of special stages (including about 120 kilometers of connecting roads). The track surface is similar to that of the first week, and it also tests the leader’s understanding of road books. And before boarding the grid, there is a 13-kilometer exhibition race.
