OREANDA-NEWS. At the prestigious Dakar rally-marathon, there was another accident, as a result of which the driver was hospitalized. The incident occurred with the South African Henk Lategan, who completed the check-in ahead of schedule and went to the hospital in Riyadh.
During the fifth stage of the race, an off-road driver in his Toyota car had an accident. As a result, the driver broke his collarbone and was hospitalized in a helicopter, according to the official website of Dakar . Co-pilot Brett Cummings got along without injury.
On the eve of the fourth stage of the rally-raid, the Indian motorcycle racer Santos Chanchanguppe Shivashankkar was hospitalized. On one of the sections of the special stage, he fell, hit his head on a stone and was sent to the hospital. He was put into an artificial coma.
Al-Attiyeh gives Toyota 3rd consecutive stage win at Dakar Rally 1 minute read
Sports Desk, Jan 6 (efe-epa).- Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah gave Toyota Gazoo Racing its third consecutive stage victory in stage four of this year’s Dakar Rally in the car category on Wednesday.
The winner of the prologue and stages two and three extended his streak in Saudi Arabia by winning the section on Wednesday, between Wadi Ad-Dawasir and Riyadh, with 476 kilometers on link sectors and 337 on specials.
Al-Attiyah beat the driver at the top of the general leaderboard, Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel, by 11 seconds, and he still holds the lead in the classification with 4 minutes and 58 seconds ahead of the Qatari.
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