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aprile 08, 2016 - KTM
Toby Price and Sam Sunderland make it 1-2 for KTM at Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge
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Toby Price was fastest in Saturday’s prologue and won the first and the fifth stage. Both he and Sam Sunderlandstayed in the top three throughout the five-stage #event. Spain’s Laia Sanz, the third member of the factory team, finished in overall sixth. She was hampered in the last days riding with a badly blistered and very painful hand.
It was a week where the character of the rally was set by the desert landscape. Five days of riding on the dramatic yellow sand dunes where tracks from the starting riders were clearly visible, largely relieved competitors of many navigating duties, often an important and possibly decisive factor in rally raid. Because of this, the rally also developed into a battle of tactics where a stage winner was left with the task of opening the track, while riders behind could easily follow the tire tracks in the sand dunes.
While the British-born Sunderland is perhaps accustomed to the local conditions because he is based in Dubai, it was Price’s first foray into the soft sand of the Gulf State’s Liwa Desert, which proved very different to the style of desert #racing he has mastered in Australia.
The final day was definitely the hardest fought and the end result was wide open and could have gone the way of any of the three leading riders. “Today it was a race from start to finish and we were really pushing all the way to the finish. That’s what I enjoy most and I had to work for it. We were really on the gas. Now we just have to keep going this way,”Price commented after the finish.
It was an important result for both riders, but especially for Sunderland who was second in the world championship last season behind KTM factory rider Matthias Walkner, who is still recovering form an injury in the Dakar Rally in January. Sunderland broke his femur in the run-up to Dakar Rally and his return to successful #racing in the Desert Challenge confirmed that he is again completely fit.
Sunderland agreed that the first 100km of the final day had been tough. “But in the end it was 1-2 with Toby and me and everything went well, even though it was pretty tortuous on the last day. The team has been great all week and the bike has been awesome. So now we have to do it all again in the next round in Qatar,” Sunderland said, adding:“What was really important for me was that everything was fine with my injured leg and that we now have the first #event in the bag.” The three KTM factory riders compete on the KTM 450 RALLY factory machine.
They now take a week’s break before heading for the Sealine Rally in nearby Qatar, a race that will be in very different conditions. It will take competitors almost entirely off piste and over hard stony ground where it will be necessary for them to be fast and alert, especially with their navigation skills.
Next Race: April 17-22, 2016 – Sealine Cross-Country Rally (QAT)
Results Stage 5 #abudhabi Desert Challenge 2016
1. #tobyprice (AUS), KTM, 2:48:17 h
2. #samsunderland (GBR), KTM, +2:09 min
3. Pablo Quintanilla (CHI), Husqvarna, +6:08
4. Pela Renet (FRA), Husqvarna, +11:53
5. Helder Rodrigues (POR), Yamaha, +12:49
Other KTM
24. Laia Sanz (ESP), KTM, +1:16:13
Final Standings #abudhabi Desert Challenge 2016
1. Price, 18:18:24 h
2. Sunderland, +2:11 min
3. Quintanilla, +3:23
4. Mo. Al Balooshi (UAE), KTM, +38:38
5. Renet, +29:30
Other KTM
6. Sanz, +1:01:01 h
Laia Sanz KTM 450 RALLY Abu Dhabi 2016-1
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