Dakar Stage 1 Report: Loprais 10th

Dakar 2012 begins: the first stage Ales finishes 10th.
   
Initial stage of the Mar del Plata in Santa Rosa offered a light menu in the form of 57 km long special on the sea shore, which, however, going into slightly inland to small dunes.  Ales started with the number 501 as the second order in the Russian Eduard Nikolaev. Throughout the test he did not go quite fully utilized and specialwith his new crew.  The slowing down of the first two leading crews took advantage of riders starting behind them. Fast cars and Dutch teams took the first rangs of the total order. Marcel Van Vliet won the Gerard de Rooy, Franz Echter and Miki Biasionem. We have long seen the Dakar stage without Kamaz in the first five, the fifth place was also netovární of Kazakh team Astana.