On January 10th, the competition for the sixth stage of the 2020 Dakar Rally ended. After more than four hours of hard work, the 13th Dakar Rally champion Peter Hansel won the championship in 4 hours, 27 minutes and 17 seconds. This season’s personal second stage champion, Spanish driver Carlos Sainz ranked second with a slight disadvantage of 1 minute and 35 seconds, and Qatar’s Prince Al-Attiya ranked third. The former F1 world champion and Spanish driver Fernando Alonso was 7 minutes and 56 seconds behind and finished sixth in the stage. Chinese driver Han Wei ranked 13th. On the overall score list, Sainz still leads, followed by Attia and Peter Hansel, and Han Wei and Alonso are temporarily ranked 15th and 16th.
In the sixth stage, the drivers start from Harry and end in Riyadh. The total length of the stage is 830 kilometers, of which the special stage is 477 kilometers, which is the longest day of the first six stages. After the end of this stage, the drivers will Riyadh ushered in a precious day of rest, and the sixth stage also became the finale of the first half of the race.
As for the Chinese drivers, Han Wei and Liao Min of the Geely Shell Lubricant Team have been ranked 11th when they passed the 6th and 7th control points. In the end, Han Wei was 25 minutes behind Peter Hansel and ranked this stage. No. 13. Another Chinese pair, Jin Jianyun and Ma Wenke, ranked 24th in the stage.
In the motorcycle group, the performance of the Honda team was still strong. The American rider Ricky Babik finished the race first in 4 hours, 36 minutes and 28 seconds, and his Spanish teammate Porter came in second behind by 1 minute and 34 seconds. Chinese Xinjiang driver Zaker Yakepu once again became the first Chinese driver to finish the race. He ranked 49th in this stage with 6 hours, 3 minutes and 46 seconds.
In the motorcycle performance list, American rider Ricky Babick continued to lead, Quintalia and Toby Price ranked second and third respectively, and Chinese rider Zackel Yakepu temporarily ranked second 49 bits.
In the quad bike group, the French driver Simon West won the stage championship with 5 hours, 54 minutes and 23 seconds, but Casale still has a huge lead of 35 minutes in the overall score list Advantage. In the truck group, the Kamaz team took the top three again. Russian drivers Kardinov, Sbarov, and Stonikov ranked the top three in the stage, and continued to dominate the overall score list.
After today’s schedule ends, the current Dakar Rally will be off for one day, and the drivers of each team will rest in Riyadh to prepare for the next 6 races.
(picture and text from the Internet)
