The fifth and remaining stage of the Desafío Ruta 40 offered each readability and complexities within the World Rally-Raid Championship. Whereas some lessons like Quad have been determined, the factors battle has solely tightened elsewhere.
The latter was particularly the case in Final, the place Yazeed Al-Rajhi entered main Nasser Al-Attiyah for the FIA total by simply 13 seconds. Though Al-Attiyah was the quickest automobile for a lot of Friday’s stage, Al-Rajhi discovered simply sufficient juice within the remaining fifty kilometres to seal the stage victory by twenty-seven seconds. Forty seconds separated Al-Rajhi from Al-Attiyah, the latter nonetheless the factors chief.
Likewise, Rokas Baciuška‘s dominance of Challenger en path to the class’s total victory was nonetheless not sufficient to clinch him the title. After racing conservatively on Friday to guard his automobile, Baciuška ended the DR 40 with three stage wins however was unable to place away Nicolás Cavigliasso, who nonetheless has a mathematical shot.
Sebastián Guayasamín, the highest-ranking SSV driver entered within the race, struggled to capitalise on factors chief Yasir Seaidan‘s early exit however ended the race with the Stage #5 victory. Though not sufficient to beat Ricardo Ramilo, he edged out Rebecca Busi for second total by 5 seconds.
Likewise, Tosha Schareina gained the fifth leg on bikes by 1:12 on Ricky Brabec; nevertheless, he wanted to make up 1:27 to beat his Honda team-mate for the outright victory. An analogous growth befell Bradley Cox in Rally2, edging out Edgar Canet for the stage win by sixteen seconds and Romain Dumontier by twenty-nine however ending 6:31 again of the latter.
Manuel Andújar, however, secured the Quad championship one race early in a dominant efficiency. He wrapped a bow on his dwelling rally by beating Giuliano Giordana for the stage win by seven minutes.
