Dakar Rally 2021: Hero Bags Third Consecutive Finish In Top 10, Harith Noah Holds Steady At 29th In Stage 8
Dakar Rally 2021: Hero Bags Third Consecutive Finish In Top 10, Harith Noah Holds Steady At 29th In Stage 8
Hero s Sebastian Buhler had a smashing day and finished 10th while Joaquim Rodrigues had a fall but recovered to 25th. Harith Noah kept things steady finishing 29th at the end of the day. Here s all that happened in the 2021 Dakar Rally Stage 8.
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Joaquim Rodrigues hit a rock and injured his right shoulder
Harith Noah is placed at P32 in the overall standings
Australia s Toby Price crashes out of perilous Dakar
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Neom (Saudi Arabia) (AFP)
Two-time former motorbike champion Toby Price is out of the Dakar Rally after the Australian took a severe blow to the head in a crash that left him in a hospital bed on Tuesday.
Price s crash on stage nine comes exactly on the first anniversary of the death of Portuguese motorcyclist Paulo Goncalves, on last year s Dakar which was also staged in Saudi Arabia.
Price had gone into the ninth stage in second place overall, a little over a minute adrift of Chilean leader Jose Ignacio Cornejo Florimo.
NEOM, Saudi Arabia: Two-time former motorbike champion Toby Price has withdrawn from the Dakar Rally after the Australian took a severe blow to the head in a crash that left him in a hospital bed on Tuesday.
Price’s crash on stage nine comes on the first anniversary of the death of Portuguese motorcyclist Paulo Goncalves, on last year’s Dakar which was also staged in Saudi Arabia.
Racing largely on dirt tracks and dunes Price had gone into the ninth stage in second place overall, a little over a minute adrift of Chilean leader Jose Ignacio Cornejo Florimo.
Bahrain Raid Xtreme s Nani Roma and Co-Driver Alexandre Winocq in action during stage 9. (Reuters)
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