Stage 8: Uyuni / Tupiza 2018-01-14

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Date
Sun 14th January 2018 (UTC)

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00:00:00 UTC

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League
Dakar Rally

Season
2018

Round
8

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Description

stage 8

Reigning Dakar Rally champion Stephane Peterhansel beat Peugeot teammate Cyril Despres to top the eighth stage of the marathon's 2018 edition.
Peterhansel was lower than usual in the starting order, having lost his overall lead on Saturday when he spent over an hour and a half at a standstill with suspension damage.
On Sunday, he recovered a small chunk of the lost time, recording his second stage win of this year's Dakar in the 498km timed special between Bolivian cities Uyuni and Tupiza.
Toyota's Nasser Al-Attiyah was best of the rest behind the Peugeot duo and did enough to hold off Peterhansel in the battle for second place in the general classification.

bikes

Antoine Meo topped the longest stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally in the bike class as the gap between Adrien van Beveren and Kevin Benavides has shrunk to 22 seconds.
KTM duo Meo and Toby Price were in first and second early on, but Honda's Ricky Brabec overcame both and led by the seventh of 10 waypoints. The battle between Meo and Brabec remained close until the finish until the American lost a miniute in the final split, allowing Meo to pick up his second win in three stages.
The day saw frontrunners Xavier de Soultrait and Pablo Quintanilla both fall, the former crashing 171 kilometres into the stage, and retiring from the event.

Reports

Result List

Result Description
cars stage 8
Pos/Driver/Team/Time

1/ STEPHANE PETERHANSEL/JEAN PAUL COTTRET/TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL/ 05h 15' 18''
2/ CYRIL DESPRES/DAVID CASTERA/TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL/ 05h 16' 07''
3/ NASSER AL-ATTIYAH/MATTHIEU BAUMEL/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA/ 05h 17' 30''
4/ BERNHARD TEN BRINKE/MICHEL PERIN/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA/ 05h 20' 18''
5/ CARLOS SAINZ/LUCAS CRUZ/TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL/ 05h 22' 22''
6/ ORLANDO TERRANOVA/BERNARDO GRAUE/X-RAID TEAM/ 05h 25' 18''
7/ JAKUB PRZYGONSKI/TOM COLSOUL/ORLEN TEAM / X-RAID/ 05h 31' 56''
8/ SHEIKH KHALID AL QASSIMI/XAVIER PANSERI/PH-SPORT/05h 36' 38''
9/ GINIEL DE VILLIERS/DIRK VON ZITZEWITZ/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA/ 05h 38' 37''
10/ MARTIN PROKOP/JAN TOMANEK/MP-SPORTS/ 05h 43' 13''

Classifications after the stage 8

1/ CARLOS SAINZ/LUCAS CRUZ/TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL/ 27h 04' 00''
2/ NASSER AL-ATTIYAH/MATTHIEU BAUMEL/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA/ 28h 10' 37''
3/ STEPHANE PETERHANSEL/JEAN PAUL COTTRET/TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL/ 28h 17' 42''
4/ BERNHARD TEN BRINKE/MICHEL PERIN/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA/ 28h 27' 00''
5/ GINIEL DE VILLIERS/DIRK VON ZITZEWITZ/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA/ 28h 41' 09''
6/ JAKUB PRZYGONSKI/TOM COLSOUL/ORLEN TEAM / X-RAID/ 29h 32' 36''
7/ MARTIN PROKOP/JAN TOMANEK/MP-SPORTS/ 29h 47' 30''
8/ SHEIKH KHALID AL QASSIMI/XAVIER PANSERI/PH-SPORT/ 29h 59' 42''
9/ PETER VAN MERKSTEIJN/MACIEJ MARTON/OVERDRIVE TOYOTA/ 32h 03' 41''
10/ NICOLAS FUCHS/FERNANDO ADRIAN MUSSANO/BORGWARD RALLY TEAM/ 33h 38' 09''

bikes stage 8
Pos/Rider/Team/Time

1/ ANTOINE MEO/RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM/ 05h 24' 01''
2/ RICKY BRABEC/MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM/ 05h 25' 09''
3/ TOBY PRICE/RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM/ 05h 26' 46''
4/ KEVIN BENAVIDES/MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM/ 05h 29' 53''
5/ STEFAN SVITKO/SLOVNAFT RALLY TEAM/ 05h 30' 47''
6/ MATTHIAS WALKNER/RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM/ 05h 31' 01''
7/ ADRIEN VAN BEVEREN/YAMALUBE YAMAHA OFFICIAL RALLY TEAM/ 05h 32' 45''
8/ JOAN BARREDA BORT/MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM/ 05h 36' 01''
9/ GERARD FARRES GUELL/HIMOINSA RACING TEAM/ 05h 37' 17''
10/ LAIA SANZ/KTM FACTORY RACING TEAM/ 05h 38' 16''

Dakar Rally 2018 - Overall classification
Rank/ Rider (Team)
1/Adrien van Beveren (Yamaha) 27:22'03
2/Kevin Benavides (Honda) +00:00'22
3/Matthias Walkner (KTM) +00:06'34
4/Toby Price (KTM) +00:07'35
5/Joan Barreda (Honda) +00:08'01
6/Antoine Meo (KTM) +00:09'56

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