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ANDhe Moroccan Rally comes to an end. Carlos Sainz has left good feelings and leaves the competition with a fifth placealthough having won one of the stages in his debut with Ford. For its part, Al Attiyah took the victory, thus achieving his third World Rally Championship. but with an eye on Carlos, who has shown that he is still one of the strongest rivals with his new team. For his part, Schareina was second in motorcycles.
Al Attiyah started as the leader of the general classification of cars and maintained the first position at the end of the coursewith 273 timed kilometers, ahead of the Frenchman Sebastien Loeb, his teammate. The third final position went to the Belgian Guillaume de Mvius, more than 13 minutes behind.
Carlos Sainz warns ahead of the Dakar
The stage was won by Loeb with a time of 2:31.22 and Carlos Sainz, double world rally champion who competed in Morocco in the experimental category, finished fifth at 5.32 (2:36.54), after having been second in the second stage, although he showed that he has a lot to say in the Dakar.
“Today was a demanding stage, I didn’t expect it to be so difficult. We lost some time due to the dust and went off the track once, then lost 3 minutes due to the puncture, but overall I am happy with the pace and the vehicle. “I am satisfied with the Rally in general and I feel that we are in a position to fight in the Dakar Rally.”
We are ready to fight in the Dakar Rally
Carlos Sainz
Cristina Gutirrez, seventh
Cristina Gutirrez (Dacia Sandriders) crossed the Moengoub finish line today in sixth position (2:37.29), although he finished in the last section of the general standings.
Podium for a Spaniard on motorcycles
On motorcycles Tosha Schareina (Monster Energy Honda) scored the last stage of the test, ahead of the also Spanish Lorenzo Santolino (Sherco TVS) with less than a minute, and the Frenchman Adrien Van Beveren (Monsteer Energy Honda), at 1:27.
The final victory in the Moroccan test went to the Australian Daniel Sanders (Red Bull KTM), followed by Schareina and the Argentine Luciano Benavides (Red Bull KTM). The world motorcycle title was awarded to Botswana rider Ross Branch (Hero Motosports) with 12 points ahead of Van Beveren.
