Multiple Dakar Rally winner Peterhansel hits trouble as Al-Attiyah extends his lead
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Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel, multiple Dakar Rally winner on bikes and with cars, didn't start well this year's edition of the biggest rally of the world - Dakar Rally 2022 which is held again in Saudi Arabia for the 2nd time in the row.
At this moment it is the most important to keep the rally live that all the motorsport lovers and competitors can enjoy their ride or drive because we are all kinda super fans of rallying - being competitor or just spectator.
So Peterhansel destroyed his rear right suspension of his newly built works Audi and it's down for hours at this moment with no chance of winning another edition of this rally because all other top competitors should retire or hit the same mistake that Peterhansel would be close to the lead once again.
Nine times World Rally Champion Seb Loeb hit trouble with two punctures and at one moment he was 19m down of the leader Nasser Al-Attiyah who's new Toyota Hilux works perfectly.
But Loeb finished 2nd overall this special stage with 12m behind Al-Attiyah. Loeb drives with Prodrive prepared Bahrain Raid Xtreme and that's all kinda prototype cars which you can't buy for every day roads which is difference from Al-Attiyah's Toyota Hilux which road car can be found anywhere in the world.
Privateer from Czech Republic Martin Prokop finished 2nd special stage in 3rd position with his Ford Raptor RS and the difference behind a leader was more then 21 minutes.
Lucio Alvarez is privateer who rents the car from super professional team Overdrive Toyota and he finished this special stage 4th overall with gap of 26 minutes behind the leader.
Top five concludes another privateer Vladimir Vasilyev who drives his own team's VRT Team BMW. It is only the start of the rally so all the crews must finish every special stage to finish the rally so they can't relax too much because every relaxation means potential mistake.
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