Goncalves wins motorcycle's seventh stage
Xinhua, January 12, 2015 Adjust font size:
Portuguese pilot Paulo Goncalves (Honda) on Sunday won the 2015 Dakar Rally motorcycle's seventh stage held between the cities of Iquique (Chile) and Uyuni (Bolivia).
Spanish pilot Marc Coma (KTM) arrived in second place and Austrian Matthias Walkner (KTM) arrived third.
With this results, Coma gets closer in the overall ranking to his compatriot Joan Barreda Bort (Honda), current leader of the rally.
Goncalves finished the 717-km travel in 3 hours and 56 minutes, followed by Coma and Walkner, who arrived 14 and 30 seconds later, respectively.
Chilean pilot Pablo Quintanilla (KTM) arrived in the fourth place.
Coma, winner of 2014 Dakar Rally, arrived 6 minutes and 28 seconds after his compatriot Barreda, the current leader of motorcycle category.
Goncalves is third in the overall ranking (at 10 minutes and 59 seconds from Barreda), while Quintanilla is fourth (at 25 minutes and 16 seconds).
On Monday, motorcycles will return to Iquique in a 781-km special route.
Ranking Stage 7
1. Paulo Goncalves (POR) 03h56'00"
2. Marc Coma (ESP) at 14"
3. Matthias Walkner (AUT) at 30"
Overall Ranking
1. Joan Barreda (ESP) 24h40'48"
2. Marc Coma (ESP) at 6'28"
3. Paul Goncalves (POR) at 10'59"
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