Martin Kolomy: https://www.youtube.com/user/BUGGYRAbrand/videos

Bonver Dakar Project:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVL47cQgppT6TlUof9Qducg/feed

Loprais (MAN): https://www.youtube.com/user/LopraisTatraTeam

Competing for the first time in the Dakar, he is now 29th overall

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Etape 11 TOUEILA / ST LOUIS
Classement Général – 10/01/2015		27 concurrent(s) classé(s)

Pos	pgr	N°	Nat.	Pilotes	Marque	Grp/Pos	Cl/Pos	Scratch	Diff 1er	Péna
1	0	201		SABATIER Jean antoine ROJAT Jean-luc	BUGGA ONE	T1 / 1	1.3 / 1	39:53:16
2	0	401		SHIBALOV Anton AMATYCH Robert KHISAMIEV Almaz	KAMAZ	T4 / 1	/ 1	41:02:18	01:09:02
3	0	404		KUPRIANOV Sergey KUPRIANOV Alexander TANIN Anatoly	KAMAZ	T4 / 2	/ 2	42:23:49	02:30:33
4	0	215		SHAGIROV Kanat MOROZ Alexandr	TOYOTA	T1 / 2	1.1 / 1	44:38:56	04:45:40
5	0	216		SAZONOV Yuriy SAKHIMOV Arslan	H3	T1 / 3	1.1 / 2	45:12:15	05:18:59
6	0	400		TOMECEK Tomas LALA Ladislav	TATRA	T4 / 3	/ 3	45:23:44	05:30:28
7	0	212		GRIGOROV Anton SAUKANS Maris	OSC	T1 / 4	1.1 / 3	46:33:04	06:39:48
8	0	207		MARTIN Patrick METZ Jean	VOLKSWAGEN	T1 / 5	1.4 / 1	50:18:41	10:25:25
9	0	220		MAURY Thierry HANS Olivier	NISSAN	T1 / 6	1.1 / 4	58:07:16	18:14:00
10	0	230		MOLGO Pawel GÓRECKI Ernest	TOYOTA	T2 / 1	2.2 / 1	58:31:37	18:38:21	02h00
11	0	403		JACINTO Elisabete TEIXEIRA MARQUES Jose COCHINHO Marco	MAN	T4 / 4	/ 4	59:04:22	19:11:06	10h00
12	0	218		CHEREDNIKOV Andrey TSYRO Dmytro	H3	T1 / 7	1.1 / 5	62:12:06	22:18:50	09h55
13	0	217		ABYKAYEV Marat CHIPENKO Andrei	NISSAN	T2 / 2	2.1 / 1	63:15:49	23:22:33	02h00
14	0	408		DOMOWNIK Piotr JANDROWICZ Janusz UNGURIAN Michal	UNIMOG	T4 / 5	/ 5	66:23:05	26:29:49	04h00
15	0	228		JUCHAULT Jean louis THIOLAT Philippe	TOYOTA	T2 / 3	2.2 / 2	66:46:36	26:53:20	04h00

For a better view of the overall ranking:  http://www.africarace-live.com/index.php/fr/cla-etp11

The Africa Eco Race is a race that takes place in the footsteps of the “original” Dakar Rally, i.e. through Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. It started on December 28, 2014 by scrutineering in Saint-Cyprien, France and the first stage began on Dec 30 in Moroccan NadorIn Africa the TATRA brand is represented by Tomáš Tomeček, who runs this year in the main sponsors’ colours – Excalibur Group and Promet Group. His racing truck TATRA 815-2T0R45 4×4.1 VK is, as its pilot says, 100% Tatra, as it is fully equipped with standard units used by the mass production – 12-cylinder air-cooled TATRA engine of 19 liters, 2x turbocharger and 20-speed TATRA 14TS 210L transmission. The front axles are suspended with air bellows with the ATESO shock absorbers The maximum vehicle speed is 155 km/h.

While Kamaz is the top team in the Dakar rally, privateers have been in command in the truck class in the Africa Eco race with Tomas Tomecek  and Elisabeth Jacinto (MAN) the dominant competitors. Kamaz however decided to enter two trucks in the Africa Eco race this year as well and promptly has taken over overall leadership.

Loprais experienced the worst day of the rally last friday. After he suffered a puncture and bogged down in the dunes, he lost more than an hour. Saturday’s 335 km from the Chilean city of Iquique in the Atacama Desert, however, he was great, won the stage on his 35th birthday and scored the sixth stage victory on the Dakar career.

The nephew of six-time Dakar winner Karel Loprais defeated  the Itatalian Bellina (Ginaf) and Dutchman Gerard de Rooy (Iveco). The superb Kamaz drivers Andrei Karginov, Dmitri Sotnikova and Ajrata Mardeev came home 4th, 5th and 6th.The sixth man of the stage Mardeev however leads by more than twenty minutes overall before Karginov, third is Sotnikov. Nikolayev, long time overall leader, lost over an hour yesterday. Second best Czech rider was in the stage was Martin Kolomý with Tatra in ninth place; he is 9th overall as well.

Loprais comments on the 7th stage:

The sixth stage was black and the seventh one gold now! We started from eleventh place by using a “joker”, who put us right at the start right behind the first 10 teams from the previous day. Everything went well for us and luckily we not met problems from yesterday, after which we are really sorry looking at the result list, but we still keep fighting. First stage victory on this year´s DAKAR at the day of my birthday, made us of course really happy. We have to concentrate for tomorrow, because today we are here at bivouac alone without service team, so we have to make service and small repairs by ourselves. Today we are not able to make a video for you, but if our team will do some one anyway that without us. Here at marathon bivouac teams don´t have any signal for mobile phones, we just can use satellite phone and connection due to overload often collapses. We hope to ensure more information’s for you during tomorrow after finishing the stage and during the day off which is following after.

Eight stage is without connecting part, trucks are going straight to special stage 271 km long. It should be again challenging, full of dunes and sand. Keep your fingers crossed for us and please support us.
Thank you.

The seventh stage from Iquique leading to marathon bivouac without assistance teams and mechanics. First the trucks have to pass 101 km long connection stage followed by special stage measure 335 km.The trucks will once again embark upon a separate marathon stage, with the added bonus of competing on a route which is specifically for them. The leaders’ driving skills in the dunes will make the difference on this first separate day, with long and decisive sandy sections. Once again, they will need to find the right balance between self-control and performance. When they reach their private bivouac, the on-board mechanics will become the key players in this marathon stage.

12.55: Martin Kolomý is determined to end the dominance of the official Kamaz team, which has three trucks in the top 3 overall. The Czech narrowly beat Siarhei Viazovich and Gerard de Rooy at CP3. The Belarusian and the Dutchman also want to end the Russian team’s reign.

13.43: The first leader of this year’s Dakar, Hans Stacey, is now languishing in seventh place overall. However, the 2007 leader still has unfinished business in this Dakar and is on course for a great performance today, beating Martin Kolomý by 19 seconds at CP3.

14.44: Gerard de Rooy is light-years away from the overall lead after a calamitous fourth stage, but today he seems to be on course to add another stage win to his already crammed trophy room. Halfway through the stage, the Iveco driver went through CP4 with almost two minutes to spare over Ales Loprais.

14.47: Hans Stacey and Martin Kolomý, the two fastest drivers at km 78, are nowhere near the lead at CP4. The Dutchman was 24 minutes down and the Czech more than half an hour behind the leader.

15.59: Overall leader Eduard Nikolaev seemed to be treading water these last three days, but the Kamaz driver could crash out of contention today after losing over an hour between CP4 and CP5!

16.23: Ales Loprais was on the hunt for his first win at the 2015 Dakar after finishing fourth three times and third once. His day of glory finally came in Iquique, where he triumphed with over five minutes to spare on Gerard de Rooy. He also moved up to fourth place overall.

16.26: Eduard Nikolaev’s pain was Ayrat Mardeev’s pain, as the latter seized the overall lead after finishing the stage eight minutes behind today’s winner, Ales Loprais. Andrey Karginov’s third place in Iquique was good enough for him to climb to second overall.

Although Karginov finished 3rd in friday’s stage, he flipped his truck on his side not far from the finish. With saturday’s marathonstage disallowing any mechanical assistance, it will be hard for the KAMAZ mechanics to get the heavily damaged Kamaz in a good condition.

http://alexmiedema.nl/2015/01/10/koprol-karginovs-kamaz-kapot/

The journey up the Pacific coast continues towards Iquique. The bikes and quads will cover an extra amount of kilometres during the special: the detour will take them over some endurance type terrain and on tracks along ridges overlooking the ocean. Afterwards, everybody will be confronted by an expedition through the chains of dunes that run along and dominate the coast. However, the arrival at the bivouac will not pass via the famous descent. For the first time, the arrival at the mid-way point of the rally will be celebrated on a podium set up in the city centre of Iquique: the meeting between the riders, drivers and the spectators will take on an emotional dimension, after the earthquake which affected the region at the beginning of 2014.

While Kamaz was in a class of its own, it was a good day for Tatra with Martin Kolomy finishing 7th, Artur Ardavichus 9th and Tomas Vratny 13th.

RESULTS:

• • STAGE

  • OVERALL WPA

  • WPA

• • Pos.	N°	Name	Make	Time	Variation	Penalty
    1	502	NIKOLAEV (RUS), YAKOVLEV (RUS), AKHMADEEV (RUS)	KAMAZ	002:54:28		00:00:00
    2	507	MARDEEV (RUS), BELYAEV (RUS), SVISTUNOV (RUS)	KAMAZ	003:00:05	00:05:37	00:00:00
    3	500	KARGINOV (RUS), MOKEEV (RUS), LEONOV (RUS)	KAMAZ	003:05:08	00:10:40	00:00:00
    4	501	DE ROOY (NLD), RODEWALD (POL), DAMEN (BEL)	IVECO	003:05:59	00:11:31	00:00:00
    5	520	SOTNIKOV (RUS), DEVYATKIN (RUS), AFERIN (RUS)	KAMAZ	003:07:12	00:12:44	00:00:00
    6	510	VIAZOVICH (BLR), HARANIN (BLR), ZHYHULIN (BLR)	MAZ	003:19:44	00:25:16	00:00:00
    7	506	KOLOMY (CZE), KILIAN (CZE), KILIAN (CZE)	TATRA	003:21:40	00:27:12	00:00:00
    8	504	STACEY (NLD), BRUYNKENS (BEL), DER KINDEREN (NLD)	IVECO	003:24:56	00:30:28	00:00:00
    9	515	ARDAVICHUS (KAZ), NIKIZHEV (KAZ), KOZLOWSKY (CZE)	TATRA	003:26:51	00:32:23	00:00:00
    10	511	VAN GINKEL (NLD), KUPPER (NLD), VAN DONKELAAR (NLD)	GINAF	003:33:50	00:39:22	00:00:00
    11	535	VASILEVSKI (BLR), KAZLOUSKI (BLR), ZAPAROSHCHANKA (BLR)	MAZ	003:36:58	00:42:30	00:00:00
    12	508	VAN VLIET (NLD), PRONK (NLD), KLEIN (DEU)	MAN	003:44:33	00:50:05	00:00:00
    13	517	VRATNY (CZE), HOLAN (CZE), MISKOLCI (SVK)	TATRA	003:44:52	00:50:24	00:00:00
    14	503	LOPRAIS (CZE), MARCO ALCAYNA (ESP), VAN DER VAET (BEL)	MAN	004:00:12	01:05:44	00:00:00

This is the first of the rare special stages in which all categories will compete. At the start of the race, the most confident drivers will be able to take advantage of the fast tracks to try to move up in the overall standings. But the temptation to do so may be risky, particularly in the hard-to-handle fesh-fesh areas where absolute self-control is the only guarantee of success. Overtaking here requires precision handling to the extreme.

Second two minutes behind Airat Mardeev at the start in Copiapo, Eduard Nikolaev has done the necessary on the route to Antofagasta to pick up a deserved second consecutive victory as well the lead in the general standings. The Kamaz driver beat his countryman by almost ten minutes whilst Byelorussian Siarhei Viazovich takes the day’s third place fifteen minutes behind the winner. In difficulty on the second half of the special, Andrey Karginov is now battling for third place in the general standings with Ales Loprais 27 minutes behind the leader.

Today’s best Tatra driver was Tomas Vratny with his yellow/black Bonver Jamal Tatra; he finished 8th.

Stage 6 was a disappointment for Martin Kolomy. The best Tatra truck driver loosing 1 hr 15 min.

Watch the Dutch trucks in this video from 13.30 and see Huzink’s Phoenix flip over at 15.00.

http://www.rtlxl.nl/#!/rtl-gp-dakar-145458/f86f4df0-f5ac-333d-a8db-4c6c7cb61478