2010 Dakar : Stage 2 - Volkswagen driver Al-Attiyah takes lead at Dakar Rally

Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk - Volkswagen Race Touareg 2

With a stage victory to the top – the Volkswagen factory duo Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) decided the second stage of the Dakar Rally in their favour. After coming fourth today, Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E) in another one of the 300-hp Race Touareg cars powered by TDI diesel engines are ranking in second place overall with a gap of just 1m 19s.


The factory squad continued the solid team performance from the previous day: Maur?cio Neves/Cl?cio Maestrelli (BR/BR) secured third place on the special stage between C?rdoba and La Rioja, Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/ZA) fifth and Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz eighth place. This means that all five Race Touareg vehicles are among the top six in the overall standings of the world’s toughest rally.

The special stage that took the "Dakar” participants in a north-westerly direction featured quick gravel passages as well as jumps and lengthy bends. In addition, there were rougher and stonier sections on the agenda of this special.

Leg 2 Result : Cordoba to La Rioja - Connection 56 km - Special 355 km - Connection 276 km

Pl	Driver	Car	Time
1.	N. Al-Attiyah	Volkswagen	4:01.55,0
2.	G. Chicherit	BMW	+ 1.8,0
3.	M. Neves	Volkswagen	+ 2.1,0
4.	C. Sainz	Volkswagen	+ 2.41,0
5.	M. Miller	Volkswagen	+ 2.44,0
6.	S. Peterhansel	BMW	+ 3.9,0
7.	C. Lavieille	Nissan	+ 6.14,0
8.	G. de Villiers	Volkswagen	+ 6.15,0
9.	C. Sousa	Mitsubishi	+ 6.20,0
10.	O. Terranova	Mitsubishi	+ 10.26,0
11.	R. Gordon	Hummer	+ 11.9,0
12.	L. Novitskiy	BMW	+ 11.31,0
13.	K. Holowczyz	Nissan	+ 12.10,0
14.	R. Leal dos Santos	BMW	+ 12.27,0
15.	N. Misslin	Mitsubishi	+ 12.31,0
16.	M. Barbosa	Mitsubishi	+ 13.24,0
17.	A. Cox	Overdrive	+ 14.33,0
18.	J. Roma	BMW	+ 15.13,0
19.	T. van Deijne	Mitsubishi	+ 15.43,0
20.	G. Spinelli	Mitsubishi	+ 16.3,0
21.	P. Thomasse	Buggy	+ 25.7,0
22.	S. Henrard	Buggy-VW	+ 27.6,0
23.	B. Errandonea	SMG	+ 27.58,0
24.	A. Mironenko	Overdrive	+ 28.21,0
25.	B. Garland	Isuzu	+ 28.45,0
26.	J. Azevedo	Mitsubishi	+ 31.5,0
27.	E. van Loon	Mitsubishi	+ 31.41,0
28.	P. Wallentheim	Isuzu	+ 33.18,0
29.	Y. Solovyev	SMG	+ 33.27,0
30.	J. Mitsuhashi	Toyota	+ 35.53,0

Leg 2 - Overall Standing

Pl	Driver	Car	Time
1.	N. Al-Attiyah	Volkswagen	6:16.39,0
2.	C. Sainz	Volkswagen	+ 1.19,0
3.	S. Peterhansel	BMW	+ 2.30,0
4.	M. Miller	Volkswagen	+ 5.28,0
5.	M. Neves	Volkswagen	+ 5.40,0
6.	G. de Villiers	Volkswagen	+ 7.17,0
7.	C. Sousa	Mitsubishi	+ 10.13,0
8.	J. Roma	BMW	+ 11.44,0
9.	R. Gordon	Hummer	+ 12.28,0
10.	C. Lavieille	Nissan	+ 12.50,0
11.	O. Terranova	Mitsubishi	+ 14.26,0
12.	K. Holowczyz	Nissan	+ 14.48,0
13.	L. Novitskiy	BMW	+ 15.4,0
14.	N. Misslin	Mitsubishi	+ 16.24,0
15.	M. Barbosa	Mitsubishi	+ 22.2,0
16.	R. Leal dos Santos	BMW	+ 22.44,0
17.	G. Spinelli	Mitsubishi	+ 23.22,0
18.	A. Cox	Overdrive	+ 23.27,0
19.	T. van Deijne	Mitsubishi	+ 26.19,0
20.	P. Thomasse	Buggy	+ 41.33,0
21.	S. Henrard	Buggy-VW	+ 41.58,0
22.	B. Errandonea	SMG	+ 42.51,0
23.	B. Garland	Isuzu	+ 45.56,0
24.	E. van Loon	Mitsubishi	+ 49.38,0
25.	M. Zapletal	Mitsubishi	+ 49.43,0
26.	A. Mironenko	Overdrive	+ 49.46,0
27.	Y. Solovyev	SMG	+ 51.27,0
28.	G. Chicherit	BMW	+ 55.32,0
29.	P. Wallentheim	Isuzu	+ 56.43,0
30.	J. Mitsuhashi	Toyota	+ 58.29,0

Images : 2010 Dakar Leg 2 Hi-light

Images : Leg 1 - Volkswagen Team

[Source : 2010 Dakar - Official, VOLKSWAGEN, X-Raid]