AL WAJH (Saudi Arabia): The sands danced along with a blazing sun on Sunday as the opening stage of the
Dakar Rally
got underway with
Toby Price
of
Red Bull Racing
taking the opening day honors.
He finished the 752 km stretch from
Jeddah
to
Alwajh
in three hours, 19 minutes and 33 seconds. He was followed by Ricky Brabec of Monster Energy Honda Team and Matthias Walkner of RedBull KTM Racing.
Indian contender CS Santosh of Hero MotoSports Team was placed with four hour, three minutes and 30 seconds. His two other team members --Paulo Goncalves and Sebastian Buhler fared better with times of 3:29:50 and 3:54:46. The other Hero racer Joaquim Rodrigues could not finish.
Later, Santosh said: “I was really excited to see what the Saudi terrains have to offer today. It was a really fast stage and had some technical sections as well with stones. I put together a good starting stage until after a tricky stony section where I had a crash and hurt my hand a bit.”
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