Dakar Trucks, Stage 9: IVECO duo De Rooy and Van Genugten dominate

The Dutchman managed to gain a lot of ground on his main rivals despite the stage having been shortened due to extreme heat.

From the get-go, de Rooy confidently led the way throughout the whole day - and beat everyone in the field, apart from teammate Ton van Genugten, by more than 16 minutes.

Van Genugten, meanwhile, only four minutes slower, which allowed him to climb up to fifth in the overall classification.

Andrey Karginov ended up best of the rest in the stage, closely followed by local driver Federico Villagra - while de Rooy's nearest rival Eduard Nikolaev was fifth, dropping almost 20 minutes.

Several usual frontrunners had an even worse time of it - including Ayrat Mardeev and Peter Versluis, who were 29 and 37 minutes off respectively, whereas erstwhile leader Hans Stacey lost over an hour.

Standings after Stage 9

Pos.	No.	Driver	Truck	Time/Gap
1	501	Gerard de Rooy Moises Torrallardona Darek Rodewald	IVECO	28h30m426s
2	502	Eduard Nikolaev Evgeny Yakovlev Vladimir Rybakov	Kamaz	27m12s
3	514	Federico Villagra Jorge Perez Companc Andres Memi	IVECO	41m24s
4	510	Peter Versluis Marcel Pronk Artur Klein	MAN	44m00s
5	516	Ton van Genugten Anton van Limpt Peter van Eerd	IVECO	45m02s
6	500	Ayrat Mardeev Aydar Belyaev Dmitriy Svistunov	Kamaz	51m49s
7	506	Hans Stacey Serge Bruynkens Jan van der Vaet	MAN	1h24m08s
8	504	Andrey Karginov Andrey Mokeev Igor Leonov	Kamaz	1h41m31s
9	533	Jaroslav Valtr Josef Kalina Jiri Stross	Tatra	2h38m42s
10	529	Pascal de Baar Martin Roesink Wouter de Graaf	Renault	2h40m05s