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Attiyah Claims Stage Four Too, Closes in on Overall Lead Kyle Jamieson scalps six as New Zealand scale Test rankings summit PAGE 14 THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2021 Attiyah claims stage four too, closes in on overall lead Nasser Al Attiyah and his co-driver Matthieu Baumel after the third stage finish on Tuesday. Qatar’s Nasser Al Attiyah of Toyota Gazoo Racing during stage four of Dakar Rally 2021 from Wadi Ad Dawasir to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. (PICS: REDBULLCONTENTPOOL) AGENCIES Peterhansel is having to dig re- rose to third, 26 minutes back. RIYADH ally deep to defend his lead. Sainz was fourth, 33 minutes “We’re not marking one back, and Sebastien Loeb was NASSER Al Attiyah on another, it’s just one relent- sixth, 46 minutes down. Wednesday showed glimpses less attack after another, and Skyler Howes of the US of being a three-time champi- in the end we finished in the became the motorbike overall on as the Qatari fended off his same time! leader after stage two winner rivals to take his third straight “Apart from a small navi- Joan Barreda and defending Dakar Rally stage win in a row gation error near the finish, I champion Ricky Brabec went -- 813-kms long and the long- don’t think I can push much off course 40 kilometers in. est on the 2021 edition. harder. To stay in contention, Howes came into the pic- Attiyah took his fourth win we need to go all out. So far, so ture after the stage’s midpoint (including prologue) since the good, as we aren’t making too and finished fourth. start in Jeddah, but by such a many mistakes. “Today the dunes flowed slim margin (11 seconds) over “In the old times, 50% of all really well and I felt comfort- Peterhansel that their duel at contenders would be knocked able there,” Howes said. the top of the general stand- out of the race by driving mis- “Then we got out into the Mini’s driver Stephane Peterhansel and his co-driver Edouard Boulanger ings remained essentially takes or technical issues, but open desert on the really fast A fan takes a selfie with Nasser Al Attiyah of Toyota Gazoo Racing of France, the overall leaders, change a tyre as they compete during unchanged. it’s become far less common, sandy tracks and I felt right Team at Wadi Ad-Dawasir, Saudi Arabia. Stage 3 of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Attiyah termed his and so you just have to hold on,” at home. I told myself if I was is French co-driver Matthieu said Peterhansel. feeling good, then I’d let it Fourth Stage Results Baumel’s effort as one were Sebastien Loeb also made ride.” they quickly were back on capital out of the road to Ri- Two-time winner Toby From Wadi ad-Dawashir to Riyadh: Auto track. “We quickly got back on yadh by claiming fourth place Price of Australia outdueled track,” said Attiyah. in both the special and the Kevin Benavides of Argentina POS. No DRIVE-TEAM MARK-MODEL TIME VARIATION PENALTY The three-time Dakar overall, while Mathieu Ser- to win the stage. 1 301 (QAT) NASSER AL ATTIYAH (FRA) MATTHIEU BAUMEL TOYOTA GAZOO RACING 02H 35’ 59’’ champion dominated the radori ran into trouble and In the quad category, day’s special from A to Z to finished seventh, 51 minutes Manuel Andujar claimed his 2 302 (FRA) STÉPHANE PETERHANSEL (FRA) EDOUARD BOULANGER X-RAID MINI JCW TEAM 02H 36’ 10’’ + 00H 00’ 11’’ claim his third stage win this back, and Yazeed Al Rajhi maiden Dakar stage win as year, but he only clawed back plummeted down the general fellow Argentinian and 2019 3 332 (ZAF) HENK LATEGAN (ZAF) BRETT CUMMINGS TOYOTA GAZOO RACING 02H 37’ 29’’ + 00H 01’ 30’’ 11 minutes from Peterhansel, standings. champion Nicolas Cavigliasso 4 300 (ESP) CARLOS SAINZ (ESP) LUCAS CRUZ X-RAID MINI JCW TEAM 02H 38’ 55’’ + 00H 02’ 56’’ who still leads the general Attiyah lead ahead of took command of the general classification by four minutes. teammate Henk Lategan of standings. 5 307 (POL) JAKUB PRZYGONSKI (DEU) TIMO GOTTSCHALK ORLEN TEAM/OVERDRIVE 02H 41’ 04’’ + 00H 05’ 05’’ “It wasn’t an easy stage. South Africa by 2 1/2 minutes. Aron Domzala won stage 4 We lost a minute to an error, 15:18 Defending champion in the lightweight vehicle cat- 6 310 (ARE) SHEIKH KHALID AL QASSIMI (FRA) XAVIER PANSERI ABU DHABI RACING 02H 43’ 21’’ + 00H 07’ 22’’ but we were hardly the only Carlos Sainz faltered near the egory without threatening the ones to make a mistake and end after starting 17th as a re- overall leader of his teammate 7 305 (FRA) SEBASTIEN LOEB (MCO) DANIEL ELENA BAHRAIN RAID XTREME 02H 43’ 35’’ + 00H 07’ 36’’ 05’00 we quickly got back on track. sult of Tuesday’s blunder. at Can-Am, Francisco “Cha- 8 317 (RUS) VLADIMIR VASILYEV (RUS) DMITRO TSYRO X-RAID TEAM 02H 46’ 44’’ + 00H 10’ 45’’ Opening up a gap is difficult, Sainz produced a spectac- leco” Lopez. but today it was good to have ular surge to inch within 31’ Finally, the Dmitry Sot- 9 339 (ZAF) BRIAN BARAGWANATH (ZAF) TAYE PERRY CENTURY RACING 02H 47’ 30’’ + 00H 11’ 31’’ my teammate Henk Lategan of the lead with about 10 km nikov festival continued in right behind me. to go. However, the Spaniard the truck category while 10 309 (ARG) ORLANDO TERRANOVA (ARG) BERNARDO GRAUE X-RAID TEAM 02H 47’ 53’’ + 00H 11’ 54’’ 00H 01’ 00’’ 01’ 00’’ “That’s exactly what I failed to maintain Attiyah’s Czech Martin Macík capital- Moto need, a fast driver who can pace and finished fifth, just ised on Siarhei Viazovich’s help me out,” explained under three minutes behind setback to move up to second 1. 1. Joan Barreda Bort (ESP-HONDA) 02h46’50”, 2. Daniel Sanders (AUS-KTM) 2h52’59”, 3. Luciano Benavides (ARG-ROCKSTAR) Attiyah. the Qatari. place, 26 minutes behind the 2h53’12”, 4. Ross Branch (BWA-YAMAHA) 2h53’47”, 5. Xavier De Soultrait (FRA-HUSQVARNA) 2h54’09”. With Attiyah on his heels, Mathieu Serradori of France leading Kamaz. Jabeur powers past Pavlyuchenkova in Abu Dhabi WTA and 29 minutes to outlast 38th- ing on the court, so hopefully I game and handing Pavlyuchen- ABU DHABI (UAE) ranked Pavlyuchenkova. can continue playing this way kova a chance to recover. The clash, as expected, and even better.” Former Top 15 player Pav- IN a battle between two players was not easy, as Jabeur had “I have to give credit also to lyuchenkova used all of her separated by only seven spots to dodge two set points at 5-4 my serve,” Jabeur continued. experience to make the most in the WTA singles rankings, in the opening frame before “I’ve been practicing a lot of of the match’s extension, and No.15 seed Ons Jabeur of Tu- moving to victory. However, serves in the pre-season, and after a hold for 5-3, the Russian nisia got the better of Russia’s Jabeur ended the match with I’m trying to go full power, even found her way to triple break Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 31 winners as she continued if sometimes it doesn’t go.” point in the next game, giving claiming a 7-6(3), 6-3 win to her run of recent success which In the second round, herself three chances to pull the move into the second round at currently has her at a career- Jabeur, who became the first second set back on serve. the Abu Dhabi WTA Women’s high singles ranking. Arab woman to reach a Grand However, with her back Tennis Open on Wednesday. “(Pavlyuchenkova) plays Slam singles quarterfinal at last Tunisian Ons Jabeur during her opening round match against the wall, Jabeur used all “To be honest, it was a good amazing, and if you go a lit- year’s Australian Open, will face of the Abu Dhabi WTA Open against Russian Anastasia of her variety of shot to play her one for me,” Jabeur told the tle bit back and not dominate, either Wang Yafan of China or a Pavlyuchenkova on Wednesday. best when she needed to. press, after her victory. “It was of course she will hit the ball qualifier to be determined. The Tunisian started with a a tough match, not an easy first good, and she wants to take An early exchange of breaks dropshot winner, then fired two round or first match, but I went control,” said Jabeur. “So the did little to separate the players Russian was nearly rewarded A love hold by Jabeur for tional backhand dropshot for fine forehands to draw back to there with the spirit like, I’m point of the whole match was in the first set as they reached for her persistence in the next 6-6 put her in great stead as a winner. deuce. Now on a roll, Jabeur not afraid, I’m just going to go for me to take control more, to parity at 3-3. A number of game, blasting a backhand win- the players moved into a deci- The momentum swung cracked her fourth ace to con- in and give it all.” mix it up a little bit.” closely contested games fol- ner to reach double set point sive first-set tiebreak, with the Jabeur’s way entirely in the sec- jure up her first match point, World No.31 Jabeur had “It was fun, to be honest,” lowed, with Pavlyuchenkova at 5-4.
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