#Dakar2015, Day 2 - Villa Carlos Paz to San Juan

Trucks Only Today at #Dakar, the day 2 began on the early hours, with a monstrous 518 km special stage after 26km of liaison, an additional ...

Trucks Only

Today at #Dakar, the day 2 began on the early hours, with a monstrous 518 km special stage after 26km of liaison, an additional 81 km of finishing transport to San Juan, #Argentina. openers. Truckers had a relatively smaller, 339 km specials to tackle, but an additional transport of 289 kilometers to end the day at San Juan.

The route passed through the stages that are used by WRC stages during Rally Argentina, although a whole lot longer and more than the regular sandy surface between rocky terrain that the world rally cars used to tame. The start of the longest stage of the rally was gravel packed harder surface, which gradually ended up on much looser sand dunes. Adding to the woes were the extremely hot temperatures, hovering around 40ºC.

With the Bikers starting the day as usual, overnight leader Sam Sunderland hit problems with his bike and lost over 3 hours, and his closest challenger Joan Barreda Bort was the fastest of the day's and rally's marathon stage. Paulo Goncalves was second, while Ruben Faria finished third quickest.





#TheFirstIndian, Santosh CS had a better day, finishing at a commendable 50th position [both day's as well as overall] from yesterday's 85th, making a comeback 35 steps in the second stage of the rally.

Stage 2, Top 5 Bikes

Pos.	N°	Name		Time	Difference
1	2	BARREDA BORT JOAN (ESP)		05:46:06	-
2	7	GONCALVES PAULO (PRT)		05:52:19	00:06:13
3	11	FARIA RUBEN (PRT)		05:55:22	00:09:16
4	4	VILADOMS JORDI (ESP)		05:55:26	00:09:20
5	26	PRICE TOBY (AUS)		05:55:48	00:09:42
50	59	C S SANTOSH (IND)		07:16:39	01:30:33

Bikes Top 5 Overall, after Stage 2

Pos.	N°	Name	Mark	Time	Difference	Penalty
1	2	BARREDA BORT (ESP)	HONDA	07:06:44	-	-
2	7	GONCALVES (PRT)	HONDA	07:11:21	00:04:37	-
3	11	FARIA (PRT)	KTM	07:17:21	00:10:37	-
4	4	VILADOMS (ESP)	KTM	07:18:08	00:11:24	-
5	26	PRICE (AUS)	KTM	07:18:16	00:11:32	-
50	59	C S SANTOSH (IND)	KTM	08:58:03	01:51:19	-

Quads, #Sonik_Rafal of #Poland took the stage victory, while opening stage winner Ignacio Casale finished second, while Sergio Lafuente finished third fastest.



Top 4 overall spots are occupied same as the day's results, while fifth is held by Qatari Abu-Issa.

Stage 2, Top 5 Quads

Pos.	N°	Name		Time	variation
1	251	SONIK RAFAL (POL)		06:49:24	-
2	250	CASALE IGNACIO (CHL)		06:52:57	00:03:33
3	252	LAFUENTE SERGIO (URY)		06:53:38	00:04:14
4	255	HALPERN SEBASTIAN (ARG)		06:58:30	00:09:06
5	269	GONZALEZ GASTON (ARG)		07:08:18	00:18:54

Quads Top 5 Overall, after Stage 2

Pos.	N°	Name	Mark	Time	Difference	Penalty
1	251	SONIK (POL)	YAMAHA	08:27:39	-	-
2	250	CASALE (CHL)	YAMAHA	08:30:05	00:02:26	-
3	252	LAFUENTE (URY)	YAMAHA	08:32:09	00:04:30	-
4	255	HALPERN (ARG)	YAMAHA	08:41:18	00:13:39	-
5	253	ABU-ISSA (QAT)	HONDA	08:48:57	00:21:18	-

Cars, #Nasser Al-attiyah was the fastest, also reclaims his lost [penalty] overall topspot with this stage victory. Yesterday he was penalized for 2 minutes for speeding in the road section, outside the special stage. Giniel De Villiers was second quickest in his Toyota Hilux, Bernhard Ten Brinke finishes third.



Overall Top five positions are held in the same order as the top 5 finishers of the day as below.

Stage 2, Top 5 Cars

Pos.	N°	Name		Time	Difference
1	301	AL-ATTIYAH NASSER (QAT)		05:04:50	-
2	303	DE VILLIERS GINIEL (ZAF)		05:13:20	00:08:30
3	315	TEN BRINKE BERNHARD (NLD)		05:14:54	00:10:04
4	307	HOLOWCZYC KRZYSZTOF (POL)		05:16:02	00:11:12
5	310	VASILYEV VLADIMIR (RUS)		05:20:59	00:16:09

Cars Top 5 Overall, after Stage 2

Pos.	N°	Name	Mark	Time	Difference	Penalty
1	301	AL-ATTIYAH (QAT) BAUMEL (FRA)	MINI	06:19:40	-	00:02:00
2	303	DE VILLIERS (ZAF) VON ZITZEWITZ (DEU)	TOYOTA	06:27:22	00:07:42	-
3	315	TEN BRINKE (NLD) COLSOUL (BEL)	TOYOTA	06:29:22	00:09:42	-
4	307	HOLOWCZYC (POL) PANSERI (FRA)	MINI	06:30:08	00:10:28	-
5	310	VASILYEV (RUS) ZHILTSOV (RUS)	MINI	06:37:03	00:17:23	-

In the Trucks category, it was a day of Kamaz trucks for top 3 positions. Eduard Nikolaev made a strong finish to take the stage victory with just under a minute, but trimming the top spot overall to 20 seconds. Siarhei Biazovich closed in on the second place, while Airat Mardeev into the third spot.



Overall leader Stacey still holds the top spot, with a 4th place finish in today's stage, while third overall trucker finished in 5th in stage 2.

Stage 2, Top 5 Trucks

Pos.	N°	Name		Time	Difference
1	502	NIKOLAEV EDUARD (RUS)		03:34:01	-
2	510	VIAZOVICH SIARHEI (BLR)		03:34:47	00:00:46
3	507	MARDEEV AIRAT (RUS)		03:34:50	00:00:49
4	504	STACEY HANS (NLD)		03:35:28	00:01:27
5	506	KOLOMY MARTIN (CZE)		03:35:42	00:01:41

Trucks Top 5 Overall, after Stage 2

Pos.	N°	Name	Mark	Time	Difference	Penalty
1	504	STACEY (NLD) BRUYNKENS (BEL) DER KINDEREN (NLD)	IVECO	05:06:11	-	-
2	502	NIKOLAEV (RUS) YAKOVLEV (RUS) AKHMADEEV (RUS)	KAMAZ	05:06:31	00:00:20	-
3	506	KOLOMY (CZE) KILIAN (CZE) KILIAN (CZE)	TATRA	05:07:12	00:01:01	-
4	507	MARDEEV (RUS) BELYAEV (RUS) SVISTUNOV (RUS)	KAMAZ	05:07:16	00:01:05	-
5	510	VIAZOVICH (BLR) HARANIN (BLR) ZHYHULIN (BLR)	KAMAZ	05:07:36	00:01:25	-

It was a disaster day for Poland's Adam Malysz, as his #SMG buggy after an uncontrollable fire reduced to buggy to its bare metal.



Fortunately, both the occupants were unhurt.

Cars + Trucks

Bikes + Quads

For Day 3, the action moves north-west towards Chilecito, and is less punishing for the bikes and quads, with longer 282+155 km road section and relatively shorter 220 km stage distance. Cars & Trucks has to tackle a bit longer 284 km special after a short 26 km liaison, and then finish the day with another 232 km road section towards Chilecito, Argentina. To know about it, you will have to wait until tomorrow!

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