The Ales Loprais crew during the 9th Stage had an accident with serious consequences, which prevented the team to continue.  Until then, Loprais was successful, won the eighth stage after two second places, held the second place overall in the truck category as well as in 9th Stage and was ready for  an enormous battle with Gerard de Rooy [...]

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We had had a very good fight from day one
The first part was very hard, but we had a good fight with Ales. He made a mistake on a navigation part and I passed him then was just in front of him. That was the big goal today, just to stay close to him. So [...]

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The Loprais team has crashed in the neutralised part of stage 9. The team was taken to hospital for a check-up.  There were bruises and a concussion.   According to rumours, it was not Loprais driving but one of the other crew members who fell asleep.
We keep our fingers crossed
More to follow….
http://www.rtl.nl/(/sport/rtl_gp/dakar/nieuws/)/sport/rtl_gp/components/dakar/nieuws/2012/articles/120110_ales_loprais_uit_de_rally.xml

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Pos.
N°
Nom
Marque
Temps
écart
Pénalité

511

BIASION (ITA)
HUISMAN (NLD)
ALBIERO (ITA)

IVECO

05:29:02
-
-

505

STACEY (NLD)
VAN GOOR (NLD)
DER KINDEREN (NLD)

IVECO

05:29:22
00:00:20
-

502

DE ROOY (NLD)
RODEWALD (NLD)
COLSOUL (BEL)

IVECO

05:29:56
00:00:54
-

533

ARDAVICHUS (KAZ)
KUZMICH (RUS)
TURLUBAEV (KAZ)

KAMAZ

05:37:56
00:08:54
-

515

VILA (ESP)
TORRALLARDONA (ESP)
VAN EERD (NLD)

IVECO

05:49:21
00:20:19
-

513

DE AZEVEDO (BRA)
JUSTO (BRA)
MARTINEC (CZE)

TATRA

05:51:04
00:22:02
-

518

ADUA (FRA)
MARCO ALCAYNA (ESP)
TORRES (ESP)

IVECO

05:54:33
00:25:31
-

509

KARGINOV (RUS)
DEVYATKIN (RUS)
MOKEEV (RUS)

KAMAZ

05:56:15
00:27:13
-

534

VERSLUIS (NLD)
DAMEN (BEL)
SCHUURMANS (NLD)

MAN

05:56:45
00:27:43
-

547

KOLOMY (CZE)
KILIÁN (CZE)
KILIAN (CZE)

TATRA

06:02:18
00:33:16
-

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Winning stage in Antofagasta! Ales is (now) reinforces the overall second instead of
The eighth stage of Dakar Rally brought Alex’s first stage victory. The advantage of Gerard de Rooy became less but with only 1:31 minutes.  Gerard de Rooij still leads overall, bur the orher trucks dropped back.
The longest special stage sof ar was 477 [...]

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Trucks have been surprising from many points of view this year and all for good. First of all, the race is extremely tight at the top which always gains a lot of good publicity and increases the number of fans and secondly the fight between Kamaz, Tatra and Iveco has brought the colour of the [...]

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TEMPS – Camions – ASS – étape 8 – secteur 2

Pos.
N°
Nom
Heures
Temps
écart

501

LOPRAIS ALES (CZE)

17:08:17
05:07:17
-

502

DE ROOY GERARD (NLD)

17:07:48
05:08:48
00:01:31

533

ARDAVICHUS ARTUR (KAZ)

17:25:13
05:21:13
00:13:56

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The first desert stage and the order gets mixed up.  Ales Loprais second overall
Second place in the stage full of twists Ales gets the day off in Copiapo in silver position behind the leader Gerard de Rooy.
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Ales Loprais has been steady until now without many fluctuations.  He hopes to have found the right pace and [...]

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Pos.
N°
Nom
Heures
Temps
écart

502

DE ROOY GERARD (NLD)

18:39:32
05:30:32
-

501

LOPRAIS ALES (CZE)

18:44:31
05:34:31
00:03:59

509

KARGINOV ANDREY (RUS)

19:09:04
05:47:04
00:16:32

533

ARDAVICHUS ARTUR (KAZ)

19:09:09
05:48:09
00:17:37

506

VAN GINKEL WUF (NLD)

19:11:26
05:48:26
00:17:54

504

MARDEEV AYRAT (RUS)

19:18:20
05:52:20
00:21:48

547

KOLOMY MARTIN (CZE)

19:23:23
05:56:23
00:25:51

505

STACEY HANS (NLD)

19:12:25
05:59:25
00:28:53

515

VILA PEP (ESP)

19:23:08
05:59:38
00:29:06

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