Summing up the outcome of the Dakar-2018 in all classes

22 January 2018

Эксперты называют марафон 2018 года одним из самых напряженных за последнее время

Yesterday we summed "Dakar-2018" in cargo class: the winner was the crew of Eduard Nikolaev, Ayrat Mardeev's team took bronze (both in favor of "KAMAZ-master"). Now let's talk about the winners in other segments.

In the category of SUVs, the best was Carlos Sainz. The Spanish rider was the only representative of the Peugeot, escaped seryoznyh problems. In particular, sébastien Loeb dropped out of the race due to injury of the Navigator, and Cyril despres was knocked out of game due to broken suspension. The technical troubles haunted and Stefan Peterhansel: first, he broke the rear suspension for a failed overtaking of the ATV rider at the seventh stage, and in one of the last days for about an hour wrestling with a jammed steering. Behind Sainz finished two representatives of "Toyota": Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah and de Villiers Giniel.

Carlos Sainz

In the class of ATVs (in 2018 they were separated from cars), fortune smiled upon Reynaldo to Varela, who played for team Can-Am. With a delay of 57 minutes finished second to Patrice Garouste (Polaris), followed by finished another Frenchman, Claude Fournier, who also represented Polaris. A total of 13 launched cars to the end of the route got less than half.

The offset of the motorcycles were no major surprises. For the seventeenth consecutive time, the gold went to the KTM team. At this time the best was the Austrian Matthias Walkner. Former winner Sam Sunderland, who was considered one of the favorites of "Dakar-2018", is out due to back problems.

Matthias Walkner

Among the quads, the entire podium took riders Yamaha: Chilean Ignacio Casale was the first two places were divided among themselves Argentines Nicolas Cavigliasso and Jeremias gonzález Ferioli.