Bruno Santos entered the fifth and ultimate stage of the BP Final Rally-Raid with the Rally2 total win within the bag, having received each leg in his class as much as Sunday. Whereas a clear sweep would definitely be good, he opted to journey the 105-kilometre stretch at a safer tempo, giving up going five-for-five to ice the general.
Santos finally completed Stage #5 in third behind Romain Dumontier and Bradley Cox. Since he’s not registered for the World Rally-Raid Championship like Dumontier and Cox, his conservative method allowed them to scramble for factors within the meantime. Dumontier, the reigning Rally2 champion, got here out on prime Sunday as he beat Cox by simply thirty-one seconds and moved into third total, although Cox nonetheless beat him by 5 minutes outright.
Like Dumontier, Nicolás Cavigliasso ended the rally with a stage win in Challenger, beating Luís Portela Morais and Sébastien Loeb by lower than fifty seconds. Rokas Baciuška positioned eleventh in simply his second time ending outdoors the Challenger prime ten after recording an eleventh in Stage #1 of the Dakar Rally in January. Despite this, his most important rival Armindo Araújo completed additional again in fifteenth to ice the general class win for Baciuška.
João Ferreira wanted to make up 2:41 to catch Nasser Al-Attiyah for the FIA win, however as an alternative completed eight seconds behind him. Each positioned behind Lucas Moraes for Stage #5, whereas Lionel Baud simply missed out on a podium in fourth.
“Nice to have the ability to end this rally with a win, particularly after what occurred with us in Abu Dhabi,” mentioned Moraes, whose Abu Dhabi Desert Problem ended along with his Toyota Hilux on fireplace. “Due to the entire Toyota workforce to ship one other nice automobile. It was wonderful to win immediately and end third total very shut from the from the lead. Climbing the standings once more.”
After ending second in Stage #4, Adrien Van Beveren closed out the race by claiming the stage win forward of Honda team-mate and total victor Tosha Schareina by fifteen seconds and Hero’s Sebastian Bühler by twenty. Stage #4 bike winner António Maio completed fifth.
“I’m proud of the day, I’m proud of the sensation driving the bike,” commented Van Beveren. “The primary day was spicy, however you need to take into consideration the nice issues and I felt superb, the bike was wonderful and I’m very motivated for Ruta 40 in Argentina.”
Lorenzo Santolino retired after shedding management of his bike and crashing simply thirty-nine kilometres into the leg, however averted severe harm. Honda’s Skyler Howes additionally crashed however salvaged a seventh-place end for the day.
