In it W2RC FIAin Stage 2, Córdoba-San Juanof the Route 40 Challengethe fourth date of the World Rally Raid Championshipit was for the Brazilian Lucas Moraes with the Toyota Gazoo Racing Hilux, postponing Yazeed Al Rajhi -Toyota Overdrive- and Nasser Al Attiyah -Hunter Nasser Racing-.
Al Attiyha commanded almost the entire 381 km special that took the cars of the world rally raid through ‘Los Gigantes’, going up from ‘El Durazno’, to head towards Tala Cañada, Ambul, running the roads of ‘La Altautina’, Villa Dolores, the Puntano salt flat of ‘Lago Pampa de las Salinas’ and look for the end in ‘La Tranca’, on the border of San Luis and San Juan, before completing the link to ‘El Villicum’, where the race will make camp today Tuesday the 4th and Wednesday the 5th.
A very fast route where the machines worked ‘at the cut’ of the limiters (170 km/h), ended with an entertaining off-road over the salt flats, where the Qatari chose not to be the winner of the day, thinking about the San Juan off-road tomorrow, where it will be better for him to go out looking at some lines and Moraes took first position, putting off Al Rajhi +57s, Al Attiyah +1.56. Seth Quintero -Toyota- +5.44 and Sebastián Halpern -Mini- +6.08. C. Baumgart, D. Krotov and Juan Cruz Yacopini. The Mendoza driver from Toyota was fighting for third place of the day, when he lost his tail on a long right, before climbing ‘la Altautina’ and had a rollover that caused him to lose almost half an hour.
The overall race continues with Al Rajhi ahead, Al Attiyah +3.19, Moraes +4.54, Halpern +18.43 and C. Baumgart +20.37. Yacopini dropped to 8th place.
In the Challenger, the Lithuanian Rokas Baciuska once again imposed conditions with the official CanAm, on a day in which the Taurus fought behind him throughout the course and the Brazilian Marcelo Gastaldi +2.26, Nicolás Cavigliasso +4.48, David Zille +5.01 and Dania Akeel +8.33, finished behind him with cars produced in Markelo, Netherlands.
Baciuska stretched his overall lead over Cavigliasso -Taurus- +11.00s, Marcos Gastaldi -Taurus- +11.34s, Dania Akeel -Taurus- +17.50 and Hernán Garcés -CanAm- +32.57, completing the five best positions. L. Del Río, N. López, P. Klaassen, N. Lafuente, D. Zille, J. Cerdá Araya, O. Santos, and S. Seppi, complete the classification, after the second day of the race.
Enrico Gaspari -Can Am- won today’s section to San Juan in the SSV and took the lead of the race over Sebastián Guayasamin -CanAm- +1.21 and Rebeca Bussi -CanAm- +3.18.
With another great performance in the Open division, Jeremías González Ferioli -CanAm- from Cordoba won the partial over Pablo Macua -CanAm- +8.33 and stretches the gap in the overall standings, in which he also leads Macua, Menichetti, N. Gagliardi, L . López, Alfredo Olmedo, J. Vélez and R. Núñez, who were located next.
Tomorrow, Stage 3 San Juan/San Juan -341 kms. of special and 137 kms. link-. The machines will cross the areas of Mogna and Las Lajas, for a full orchestra finish in the Albardón River.
Chain 3 Motorfrom the ‘El Villicum’ International Raceway, San Juan, Campamento DR40, with photographs of DR40.
