Dakar Trucks, Stage 10: Shock win for De Baar as De Rooy takes decisive lead
Underdog Pascal de Baar was victorious in Stage 10 of the 2016 Dakar Rally's truck race, beating overall leader Gerard de Rooy as the latter established a lead of more than an hour.
#529 Renault Trucks: Pascal de Baar, Martin Roesink, Wouter de Graaff
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Having first contested Dakar in 2005, 46-year-old Dutchman de Baar has now secured his maiden stage win on the K520 Renault - and appears set for a personal best finish overall, having moved up to sixth.
Leader de Rooy's main rival Eduard Nikolaev started the day as the stage pacesetter - before surrendering the top spot to Federico Villagra and then losing more than three hours towards the end.
Villagra soon hit trouble as well and finished 50 minutes behind de Baar, while de Rooy lost only two and a half minutes to the Renault.
Kamaz's Ayrat Mardeev - now de Rooy's closest rival - was third in the stage, narrowly ahead of Tatra’s Martin Kolomy and MAN’s Hans Stacey.
Kazakh Artur Ardavichus made his first appearance in the top six in the 2016 event as he beat Dmitry Sotnikov and Aleksandr Vasilevski to the spot.
Regular frontrunners Ton van Genugten and Peter Versluis both struggled, the former losing an hour and a half and the latter - a full two hours.
Standings after Stage 10
Pos. | No. | Driver |
Truck | Time/Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 501 |
Gerard de Rooy Moises Torrallardona Darek Rodewald |
IVECO |
33h25m03s |
2 | 500 |
Ayrat Mardeev Aydar Belyaev Dmitriy Svistunov |
Kamaz |
1h15m19s |
3 | 514 |
Federico Villagra Jorge Perez Companc Andres Memi |
IVECO |
1h32m47s |
4 | 506 |
Hans Stacey Serge Bruynkens Jan van der Vaet |
MAN |
1h48m57s |
5 | 516 |
Ton van Genugten Anton van Limpt Peter van Eerd |
IVECO |
2h16m55s |
6 | 529 |
Pascal de Baar Martin Roesink Wouter de Graaf |
Renault |
2h37m29s |
7 | 510 |
Peter Versluis Marcel Pronk Artur Klein |
MAN |
2h55m14s |
8 | 537 |
Maurik van den Heuvel Wilko van Oort Peter Kuijpers |
Scania |
3h44m34s |
9 | 533 |
Jaroslav Valtr Josef Kalina Jiri Stross |
Tatra |
3h52m22s |
10 | 502 |
Eduard Nikolaev Evgeny Yakovlev Vladimir Rybakov |
Kamaz |
3h55m20s |
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