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2012.01.05
2012 DAKAR
Report#8 “Stage 4 San Juan > Chilecito”
Today, January 4(Local date), SS was short but Jun challenged the course with varieties that inclued mountain road, the canyon and the river. Before he started it rained in the high elevation mountain range and there were the muddy streams. However such a bad situation was a cup of tea for Jun because he was so fast. Jun took time to pass the slow cars in front of him and the first half of SS was going smoothly today. But the demon’s gate waited for Jun in the last the course.
Feshifeshi(The powder like soil)ground started from 2km before the goal. You can imagine that is the ground is like the flour deposited. He wanted to keep away from it because if the car gets stuck, much time would be lost. Besides the bad view from the dust, Jun had to be run the road that was narrow and leafy carefully. Suddenly the wiped out motorcycle appeared right in front of Jun. He averted to runover the motorcycle but his rear tire went flat. Jun lost 5 to 6 minutes to change the tire. That incident happened at point of 1km from the goal. Jun ran the SS at a good rate but the ending was a little bad.
However Jun’s rank is getting better little by little and the overall standings was 28th today. Jun said “Very difficult courses begin tomorrow and will continue for 3 days. That is the highlight in the first half of the Rally. I will pull my socks up.”
Dakar Rally 2012 Stage 4 Result:
Liaison: 388km SS: 326km
T2 Autos Result: 1st
Overall standings: 28th
Pos. N° Name Mark Time variation Penalty
1 339 MITSUHASHI (JPN) GUEHENNEC (FRA) TOYOTA 12:39:14 – –
2 340 FOJ (ESP) CERVANTES () TOYOTA 13:00:58 00:21:44 –
3 346 ALHERAIZ (UAE) ALKENDI (UAE) TOYOTA 13:42:18 01:03:04 –
4 415 MOGNIER (FRA) VAUTIER (FRA) TOYOTA 14:32:29 01:53:15 –
5 468 BULACIA (BOL) MONTANO PANAS (ESP) TOYOTA 14:34:57 01:55:43 –
6 341 WAUTERS (BEL) FERYN (BEL) TOYOTA 14:59:41 02:20:27 –
7 398 BASSO (FRA) MENARD (FRA) TOYOTA 15:02:21 02:23:07 –
8 342 TERADA (JPN) TANAKA (JPN) TOYOTA 16:06:57 03:27:43
9 424 GIRARD (FRA) SIMONIN (FRA) TOYOTA 16:39:53 04:00:39 –
10 412 TOTANI (ITA) TOTANI (ITA) MITSUBISHI 18:52:08 06:12:54 01:00:00
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2012/us/stage-4/rankings/overall-cars.html#ancre
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