Al-Attiyah saved by stewards
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January 14, 2013, Monday
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QATAR'S 2011 Dakar Rally champion Nasser al-Attiyah was a relieved man yesterday as, despite getting stuck when torrential rain brought chaos to the eighth stage from Salta to Tucuman, he remained in second place.
Race stewards decided to hand all of the cars that were unable to complete the stage the same time as the last competitor who finished before the stage was abandoned.
This revised result keeps the 42-year-old Qatari in second place and trailing France's defending champion Stephane Peterhansel by just 3 minute 14 seconds.
The race had been stopped at the 88km mark when a riverbed on the course swelled with water. At that time, Al-Attiyah was 13 seconds ahead of America's Robby Gordon with Peterhansel three minutes behind. But as the storms worsened, al-Attiyah got stuck and then watched several of his rivals disappear into the distance.
Guerlain Chicherit reached the finish in the fastest time with Peterhansel, a 10-time Dakar winner with six victories on a motorbike and four times in the car discipline - over 12 minutes behind.
Race stewards decided to hand all of the cars that were unable to complete the stage the same time as the last competitor who finished before the stage was abandoned.
This revised result keeps the 42-year-old Qatari in second place and trailing France's defending champion Stephane Peterhansel by just 3 minute 14 seconds.
The race had been stopped at the 88km mark when a riverbed on the course swelled with water. At that time, Al-Attiyah was 13 seconds ahead of America's Robby Gordon with Peterhansel three minutes behind. But as the storms worsened, al-Attiyah got stuck and then watched several of his rivals disappear into the distance.
Guerlain Chicherit reached the finish in the fastest time with Peterhansel, a 10-time Dakar winner with six victories on a motorbike and four times in the car discipline - over 12 minutes behind.
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