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This is the single-news section of the
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UAE Desert Challenge: Marc Coma leads the motorbike standings.
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Positive first day for the Repsol riders Marc Coma and Jordi Viladoms in the motorbike class. Coma who started eighth this morning, managed to overtake the riders ahead until taking the lead and kept a fast pace that allowed him to reach the finish of today's stage all alone, opening the track. Thus Coma managed to set the fastest time in this first special. Team mate Jordi Viladoms, starting from twenty-fourth position, also managed to pass slower riders during the special finally setting the third fastest time of the day.
Marc Coma: "It's been a first contact with the desert and the truth is that I'm happy because the leg went very well and we've already been able to open small gaps. We hope to continue in this same line, there are five days left and this has just started. Today was something like a smal introduction to what we are going to face later on. We have started with fast tracks, then a lot of sand and it ended up with dunes that were quite difficult to pass. I started eighth and began passing other riders until I managed to take over the lead in km 130, all alone, opening the track until the end of the stage."
Jordi Viladoms: "I'm quite happy because I think that third is a good position considering that I started quite from the back. I had some trouble in the beginning because there was a lot of dust, but then I managed to overtake slower riders and moved up to were Isidre Esteve was. I'm happy because I had a good pace and the aim was not making any mistake, which I didn't."
2006/11/06 | 21:21 CET | Editor: UAE Live Team, Repsol
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