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This is the single-news section of the
marathonrally.com rally-live special of the UAE Desert Challenge 2006. To navigate please use the upper or right Navigation Bar.
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UAE Desert Challenge: Marc Coma leading the bike standings.
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In the motorbike class, comfortable victory for Marc Coma despite the complicated route, and less positive day for Jordi Viladoms who could not keep his fast pace due to a problem with a fuse of his motorbike, hindering from finishing better than seventh fastest in the special. He benefited however from Esteve's retirement moving back to the third place in the overall standings.
And while Viladoms was suffering with his bike, Coma kept a cold head despite starting among the first, setting a pace that was fast enough to avoid the following rider catching up with him and closing the gap in the overall standings. Coma passed Blais on km 50 and from that moment continued alone, setting a fast pace until the finish. Today’s stage was long and complicated with many dunes at the beginning and fast tracks in the second half of the special and more dunes towards the end. Coma finally won the stage and Jordi Viladoms was sixth. Coma continues leading the overall standings.
Marc Coma: "It’s been a very long stage with a 380-km special. The start was a little delayed again due to the early fog and that means starting the special when the sun is already up in the sky and the heat is really strong, what makes the rally even harder. The result of the stage is good. Today was an important day, we had to try to avoid the other from closing the gap and we even managed to increase it so it’s been very good. We’ll try to make tomorrow’s stage a mere formality, although it’s a special you have to race so we’ll see if we can continue like this."
Jordi Viladoms: "Today has been a complicated day because I had some electrical problem after 60 km which made the bike stop and therefore the GPS to fail so I had to go back a couple of times to look for waypoints I didn’t get because the GPS was failing. I continued like that until the refuelling point where we changed a fuse. From then on I was able to do better. I lost some time but I improved one place in the standings, since Esteve’s engine broke down. Now we only have to continue like this, hoping that nothing strange happens, in order to keep this third place."
4th Leg Motorbikes
01) Marc Coma | KTM | 04:29:36
02) Chris Blais | KTM | 04:40:54
03) Cyril Despres | KTM | 04:41:08
04) David Casteu | KTM | 04:43:10
05) Per Anders Ullevalsetter | KTM | 04:45:03
06) Jordi Viladoms | KTM | 04:45:54
2006/11/09 | 22:22 CET | Editor: UAE Live Team, Repsol
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