Media Information
Dakar Rally 2019
08 January 2019
Dakar Rally 2019
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Stage 02, Pisco – San Juan de Marcona
- Four MINI crews complete Stage 2 inside the top ten.
- Nani Roma takes second place in Stage 2.
- Yazeed Al-Rajhi secures fifth.
- Sixth place result for Cyril Despres.
- Carlos Sainz finishes Stage 2 in eighth.
Munich. Following on from yesterday’s short Stage 1, with just
84 km of off-road Special Stage, today’s Stage 2 was the first of
the long distance races with a combination of 211 km liaison route
and a tough 342 km Special Stage.
Highest placed of the competing MINI crews was that of Joan ‘Nani’
Roma (ESP) and co-driver Alex Haro (ESP). The Spanish pairing ran a
relatively fault-free race that saw them finish in second. Yazeed
Al-Rajhi (KSA) / Timo Gottschalk (GER) in another MINI John Cooper
Works Rally crossed the finish point 1min 13sec later to take fourth place.
The French duo of Cyril Despres and Jean Paul Cottret was the third
MINI crew to complete Stage 2. They placed their MINI John Cooper
Works Buggy in sixth, while eighth position was taken by the Spanish
pairing of Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz, also from X-raid MINI John
Cooper Works Team.
Orlen X-raid Team’s Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski (POL) and co-driver Tom
Colsoul (BEL) had a different race compared to yesterday. They
couldn’t replicate the third place achieved in Stage 1 and had to
settle for a hard fought 13th place.
The MINI John Cooper Works Buggy crew of Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA) /
David Castera (FRA) lost just over 17 minutes at one point during
Stage 2 when they became stuck in the dunes. But by the time they
reached the finish area they had recovered valuable minutes.
Last of the MINI crews to complete Stage 2 was Boris Garafulic (CHI)
and co-driver Filipe Palmeiro (POR) in 18th. The MINI John Cooper
Works Rally crew of Orlando Terranova (ARG) / Bernardo ‘Ronnie’ Graue
(ARG) did not complete Stage 2 because Terranova required medical
assistance due to back pain.
Cyril Despres
“We are happy with the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy and the set-up we
did yesterday – you can make so many kilometres in testing like we
have done in Morocco, but here in the sand and dunes of Peru it is
different and you have to set the car up really well. We have great
team spirit, so when I saw Stéphane stuck in the dunes I felt that I
must help him and so we did.”
Stéphane Peterhansel
“I got stuck and was in a really bad place. We are happy though
because Cyril stopped for us and pulled us clear. We lost a lot of
time but, I think, without the help of Cyril it would have been a lot worse.”
Next race is Stage 3, San Juan de Marcona – Arequipa. For more
information about Dakar 2019, please visit the host’s event home page
here.
Dakar Rally 2019
: MINI standings after Stage 2
Pos
Driver
Co-driver
#
MINI
Team
Time
3rd
Joan
Roma
(ESP)
Alex
Haro
(ESP)
307
MINI
John Cooper Works Rally
X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Rally
Team
004:33:27
+00:00:42
4th
Yazeed
Al-Rajhi
(KSA)
Timo Gottschalk
(GER
314
MINI John Cooper Works Rally
X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Rally
Team
004:33:35
+00:00:50
6th
Carlos
Sainz
(ESP)
Lucas
Cruz
(ESP)
300
MINI
John Cooper Works Buggy
X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Team
004:35:13
+00:02:28
9th
Cyril
Despres
(FRA)
Jean Paul Cottret
(FRA)
308
MINI John Cooper Works Buggy
X-raid MINI John Cooper Works
Team
004:36:13
+00:03:28
12th
Jakub
Przygonski
(POL)
Tom Colsoul
(BEL)
303
MINI John Cooper Works Rally
Orlen X-raid Team
004:31:35
+00:08:50
13th
Stéphane
Peterhansel
(FRA)
David Castera
(FRA)
304
MINI John Cooper Works Buggy
X-raid MINI John Cooper Works
Team
004:46:40
+00:13:55
17th
Boris
Garafulic
(CHI)
Filipe Palmeiro
(POR)
321
MINI John Cooper Works Rally
X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Rally
Team
004:51:45
+00:00:19
TBC
Orlando
Terranova
(ARG)
Bernardo Graue
(ARG)
310
MINI John Cooper Works Rally
X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Rally
Team