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Loeb the man to beat leading into Dakar week 2─── 08:50 Mon, 11 Jan 2016
Week two of 2016 Dakar Rally resumes today after the competitors had a rest in Salta yesterday.
Nine-time world rally champion and Dakar debutant, Sebastian Loeb of France, has been in dominant form during the opening week and holds a neat two and half minute overall lead over his fellow Frenchman, Stephane Peterhansel.
Loeb and Peterhansel’s Peugeot teammate, Carlos Sainz of Spain, completes the podium in third - some 4 minutes 50 seconds off the pace.
The tougher and more technical phase of the gruelling rally in starts today and this is where South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers wants to make his move.
De Villiers is 33 minutes and 42 seconds off the pace in sixth but is of the view that anything can happen this week.
Leeroy Poulter and Robert Howie of South Africa are just over six minutes behind De Villiers in seventh.
Today’s stage runs from Salta to Belén.
Morgan Piek/OFM News
