In today's stage the remaining top six drivers finished close, within slighly more than 5 minutes.
1 501 - FEDERICO VILLAGRA (ARG) 3h22m23s 2 505 - MARTIN KOLOMY (CZE) +00:02:46 3 509 - TON VAN GENUGTEN +00:02:58 4 502 - DMITRY SOTNIKOV (RUS) +00:03:38 5 510 - MARTIN MACIK (CZE) +00:04:03 6 500 - EDUARD NIKOLAEV (RUS) +00:05:25 9 531 - JAN VAN KASTEREN +00:15:56 10 516 - MAURIK VAN DEN HEUVEL +00:16:31 13 517 - GERT HUZINK +00:23:30
Nikolaev (KAMAZ) won stage 5 of the Dakar, though assisted by Martin Kolomy (Buggyra Tatra) after he flipped over. Kolomy eventually managed 6th (other sources say 7th) in the stage. Soltys on the other Buggyra-Tatra finished 15th. Overall, the Tatyras are way down. Soltys trails overall leader Nikolaev by over 5 hrs. He is 11th. Kolomy is even further back and is 14th overall, 8hs 42 min down on the leader.
Video of Kolomy assisting Nokolaev: https://www.rtlgp.nl/item/170070/dakar_2018_etappe_5_in_3_minuten
Results Stage 5:
| .1 | Eduard Nikolaev | RUS | Kamaz |
3u 37m 12s |
| 2. | Siarhei Viazovich | WRU | MAZ |
+06m 23s |
| 3. | Ton van Genugten | NED | Iveco |
+12m 57 |
| 4. | Dmitry Sotnikov | RUS | Kamaz |
+13m 23s |
| 5. | Federico Villagra | ARG | Iveco |
+21m 10s |
| 6. | Martin Kolomy | TSJ0 | Tatra |
+21m 14s |
| 7. | Aleksandr Vasilevski | WRU | MAZ |
+22m 16s |
| 8. | Airat Mardeev | RUS | Kamaz |
+23m 27s |
| 9. | Artur Ardavichus | KAZ | Iveco |
+25m 51s |
| 10. | Aliaksei Vishneuski | WRU | MAZ |
+29m 01s |
Ales Loprais is out of the 2018 Dakar after starting down the field in stage 4. First his powersteering missed, than his turbo broke down resulting in a power loss of 40%. and he eventually crashed his truck in the dunes.
| POS. | N° | EXP. | DRIVE-TEAM | MARK-MODEL | TIME | VARIATION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 04H 35′ 08” | ||||
| 2 | 501 | YPF INFINIA DIESEL TEAM DE ROOY | 05H 03′ 05” | + 00H 27′ 57” | |||
| 3 | 505 | TATRA BUGGYRA RACING | 05H 13′ 57” | + 00H 38′ 49” | |||
| 4 | 511 | HINO TEAM SUGAWARA | 05H 48′ 23” | + 01H 13′ 15” | |||
| 5 | 510 | BIG SHOCK RACING | 05H 56′ 41” | + 01H 21′ 33” | |||
| 6 | 507 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 05H 58′ 39” | + 01H 23′ 31” | |||
| 7 | 532 | TATRA BUGGYRA RACING | 05H 58′ 46” | + 01H 23′ 38” |
Martin Kolomy comments: Today’s start of the stage was wonderful, but then we were hit by a technical fault on the wiring and stopped the engine for quite a long time. We could not find it, but the important thing is that we are at the finish and we can continue with a lot of loss, but we will continue to fight because we are at the beginning of the competition. It’s not nice, we had a lot of fun, we were a lot ahead, and we knew that somebody would not take us anymore, because the start was very challenging, where there were sea exits that were so risky that there were competitive trucks there and we also took a couple of times. But unfortunately, no one can see it even when we get 100% coolness, still just wires and spinning wheels, it’s just a bad luck, “said Martin Kolomý
News is scarce, but we hear that Kolomy has stranded with mechanical problems with the finish in sight, while Pavel Vrnak, on the fast assistance Buggyra Tatra, had to spend the night in the dunes with several other competitors. They were just stuck!
Video: https://www.rtlgp.nl/item/169801/dakar_deelnemers_bundelen_de_krachten_in_loodzware
In today’s stageSoltys (Buggyra Tatra) was the best Tatra, nearly 53 minutes adrift from the victor. Loprais was even 1 h 26 min. down, finishing 17th. Ko;omy has not finished yet.
| POS. | N° | EXP. | DRIVE-TEAM | MARK-MODEL | TIME | VARIATION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 501 | YPF INFINIA DIESEL TEAM DE ROOY | 03H 56′ 37” | ||||
| 2 | 500 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 03H 57′ 12” | + 00H 00′ 35” | |||
| 3 | 507 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 04H 00′ 46” | + 00H 04′ 09” | |||
| 4 | 510 | BIG SHOCK RACING | 04H 09′ 55” | + 00H 13′ 18” | |||
| 5 | 518 | MAZ-SPORTAUTO | 04H 21′ 04” | + 00H 24′ 27” | |||
| 6 | 512 | MAZ-SPORTAUTO | 04H 21′ 42” | + 00H 25′ 05” | |||
| 7 | 517 | RIWALD DAKAR TEAM | 04H 37′ 40” | + 00H 41′ 03” | |||
| 8 | 506 | MAMMOET RALLYSPORT | 04H 43′ 14” | + 00H 46′ 37” | |||
| 9 | 511 | HINO TEAM SUGAWARA | 04H 47′ 57” | + 00H 51′ 20” | |||
| 10 | 503 | MAZ-SPORTAUTO | 04H 47′ 59” | + 00H 51′ 22” | |||
| 11 | 508 | ASTANA MOTORSPORT TEAM DE ROOY IVECO | 04H 48′ 43” | + 00H 52′ 06” | |||
| 12 | 532 | TATRA BUGGYRA RACING | 04H 49′ 45” | + 00H 53′ 08” | |||
| 13 | 531 | MAMMOET RALLYSPORT | 04H 54′ 52” | + 00H 58′ 15” | |||
| 14 | 515 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 04H 59′ 29” | + 01H 02′ 52” | |||
| 15 | 502 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 05H 02′ 55” | + 01H 06′ 18” | |||
| 16 | 509 | PETRONAS TEAM DE ROOY IVECO | 05H 19′ 11” | + 01H 22′ 34” | |||
| 17 | 504 | INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM | 05H 22′ 52” | + 01H 26′ 15” | |||
| 18 | 516 | DAKARSPEED | 05H 27′ 18” | + 01H 30′ 41” | |||
| 19 | 514 | RTS RACING | 37H 31′ 50” | + 33H 35′ 13” |
Eduard Nikolaev, the 2017 champion landed a critical blow and won in style in Pisco in the first real stage of the 2018 Dakar. Eduard Nikolaev beat Federico Villagra by over three minutes and Aleš Loprais by six. The rest of the field was so far behind that the Russian is already padding his overall lead.
| POS. | N° | EXP. | DRIVE-TEAM | MARK-MODEL | TIME | VARIATION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 03H 24′ 23” | ||||
| 2 | 501 | YPF INFINIA DIESEL TEAM DE ROOY | 03H 27′ 48” | + 00H 03′ 25” | |||
| 3 | 504 | INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM | 03H 30′ 30” | + 00H 06′ 07” | |||
| 4 | 505 | TATRA BUGGYRA RACING | 03H 35′ 34” | + 00H 11′ 11” | |||
| 5 | 509 | PETRONAS TEAM DE ROOY IVECO | 03H 44′ 31” | + 00H 20′ 08” |
OVERALL RESULTS:
| POS. | N° | EXP. | DRIVE-TEAM | MARK-MODEL | TIME | VARIATION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 03H 50′ 07” | ||||
| 2 | 504 | INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM | 03H 55′ 45” | + 00H 05′ 38” | |||
| 3 | 501 | YPF INFINIA DIESEL TEAM DE ROOY | 03H 59′ 40” | + 00H 09′ 33” | |||
| 4 | 505 | TATRA BUGGYRA RACING | 04H 03′ 14” | + 00H 13′ 07” | |||
| 5 | 509 | PETRONAS TEAM DE ROOY IVECO | 04H 10′ 57” | + 00H 20′ 50” | |||
| 6 | 506 | MAMMOET RALLYSPORT | 04H 17′ 47” | + 00H 27′ 40” | |||
| 7 | 518 | MAZ-SPORTAUTO | 04H 18′ 49” | + 00H 28′ 42” | |||
| 8 | 512 | MAZ-SPORTAUTO | 04H 19′ 09” | + 00H 29′ 02” | |||
| 9 | 502 | KAMAZ – MASTER | 04H 31′ 08” | + 00H 41′ 01” | |||
| 10 | 510 | BIG SHOCK RACING | 04H 38′ 48” | + 00H 48′ 41” |
