He Dakar 2021 has completed the first two stages and has done so with exchange of leaders both in the car category as well as in terms of motorcycles. The Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel and the Castellón driver, Joan Barreda, lead the respective classifications to the detriment of Carlos Sainz and Toby Price, until yesterday. The 457-kilometer special between the towns of Bisha and Wadi Ad-Dawasir also served to corroborate the good role of the Rueju brand from Figueres, which keeps two of its three participating riders in the top 25.
Oriol Mena was fifteenth yesterday with a time of 4 hours, 39 minutes and 10 seconds, which confirms him in the fourteenth position of the general. “I’m very happy with the pace. I made a small mistake but I did well enough, this has just begun and we will see what happens, “he said. For his part, his teammate, Joan Pedrero, was 26th (4: .47.56) and ranks twenty-second in the standings. We have to go down to position number 51 to find Marc Calmet.
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