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Tuesday, 10th January 2012
Carlos Sousa climbs to seventh overall
and comes closer to Leonid Novitskiy
Carlos Sousa confirmed today the seventh place overall in one of the mostmythical stages of the South American Dakar and one of the most
spectacular arrivals of all event, with the famous and steep descent towards
Iquique, with the Pacific Ocean in the horizon! Being the seventh fastest to
conclude the special stage with 556 km the longest in the whole rally, the
Portuguese driver from Great Wall keeps Novitskiys MINI under pressure,
getting closer to him for the second day in a row
At a moment when the race is its most decisive phase and the slightest mistake can
have serious consequences in terms of ranking, Carlos Sousa was again beyond
reproach at the wheel of the SUV Haval of the Chinese team Great Wall Motors.
With scarce technical means to compete with the main car teams, the Portuguese
driver has been making use of is extreme consistency and huge expertise to
consolidate a historic result to a team that began its relationship to the greatest rally in
the world only three years ago.
For now and by contrast with what happened to the winner from the last edition,
Carlos Sousa completed the longest stage of this Dakar, in a total of 565 km from
Antofagasta to Iquique, taking benefit from Nasser Al-Attiyahs withdrawal to climb
one more position overall and placing himself in seventh again, where he was after the
fifth stage.
It was a long and weary day, thats for sure, but we manage to succeed without any
great problems, despite some dangerous out of track passages and some serious
navigation work. My greatest helplessness is not being able to keep the same pace as
the MINIs It is frustrating watching then passing by and not being able to react. In
short, it is an uneven battle that we have to fight to the end, and continue to bet on
our consistency and the reliability that the Great Wall has shown until now,
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affirmed Carlos Sousa at the finishing line of the this ninth stage, where he gained
some time to Leonid Novitskiys MINI for the second day in a row.
We gained 51 seconds today, which is not much considering how far we are from
him overall about 15 minutes. Even though we know that it wont be easy to close
this gap until the end, we are going to try to keep him under pressure in the next
stages, promised the best Portuguese car driver.
Tomorrows stage, on Wednesday, is along the Pacific coast with a privileged view to
some of the best surf beaches in the world. The track connects the cities of Iquique
and Arica, in a total of 694 km and includes a special stage of 377 km, where the main
difficulty will be passing through the long the complex web of sand barriers and dunes
of the Atacama.
STAGE 9
Cl. Driver/Co-driver Car Time/Dif.
1st Gordon/Campbell Hummer 4h35m21s
2nd Peterhansel/Cottret MINI + 1m38s
3rd Roma/Prin MINI + 8m37s
4th Holowczyc/Fortin MINI + 10m39s
5th Leal dos Santos/Fiza MINI + 15m23s
6th De Villiers/Von Zitzewitz Toyota + 18m03
7th SOUSA/GARCIN GREAT WALL + 22m36s
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38 ZHOU/MAIMON GREAT WALL + 2h15m50s
OVERALL AFTER STAGE 9
Cl. Driver/Co-driver Car Time/Dif.
1st Peterhansel/Cottret MINI 24h41m14s
2nd Gordon/Campbell Hummer + 5m58s
3rd Holowczyc/Fortin MINI + 16m49s
4th Roma/Prin MINI + 19m26s
5th De Villiers/Von Zitzewitz Toyota + 54m10s
6th Novitskiy/Schulz MINI + 1h29m20s
7th SOUSA/GARCIN GREAT WALL + 1h44m27s
()
27 ZHOU/MAIMON GREAT WALL + 10h05m26s
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