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POST GENERALE GARA CON TUTTI I REPORT (http://www.enduroitalia.com/smf/index.php?topic=8213.0)

LIVE TIMING DAKAR 2014 DAY 13 (http://gaps.dakar.com/2015/dakar/stage-13/aso/ukie.php)

FONTE: MOTO.IT (http://www.automoto.it/news/dakar-2015-tappa-13-cronaca-live-.html)

Dakar 2015: vittoria finale per Coma (KTM) e Al-Attiyah (Mini)
La tappa finale è stata ridotta a causa della pioggia e del fango. A Buenos Aires Marc Coma (KTM) e Nasser Al-Attiyah (Mini) sono stati incoronati vincitori della Dakar 2015!

Dakar 2015, Tappa 12. Nelle moto vince Price, nella auto Terranova

Dakar 2015. Rosario - Buenos Aires. Ci siamo! I piloti sono partiti per percorrere l'ultima tappa, la passerella che li porterà attraverso la provincia di Santa Fe da Rosario a Buenos Aires. Ormai i giochi sono pressoché fatti, ma non si può mai dire l'ultima parola alla Dakar.
Oggi i piloti dovranno fare un trasferimento di 77 km, per poi affrontare la prova speciale di 174 km. Alla fine di questa solo 142 km di ulteriore trasferimento li separerà dal podio di Tecnopolis a Buenos Aires, dove li attende già una folla di migliaia di persone.
Onore agli ultimi: solo in quest'ultima tappa saranno gli ultimi a partire per primi, invertendo l'ordine usuale.

Le moto

Marc Coma (KTM) vede il traguardo davanti a sé, non deve correre rischi, ha un vantaggio consistente da amministrare (17 minuti) su Paulo Gonçalves (Honda) e Toby Price (KTM).

Si avviano a concludere positivamente questa infernale (e salatissima... ricordate la tappa di Uyuni?) Dakar anche gli italiani: Ceci, Brioschi, Toia e Casuccio.
Joan Barreda e Hélder Rodrigues hanno atteso l'arrivo di Paulo Gonçalves all'inizio della speciale per scortarlo durante la tappa e dargli una mano, se dovesse incappare in qualche inconveniente durante i 174 km di crono.

C'è tantissimo fango lungo la prova speciale e diversi piloti procedono in gruppo, per non correre il rischio di cadere e di vanificare tutto gli sforzi fatti sino a oggi per arrivare in fondo alla competizione.

Ivan Jakes si aggiudica la tappa davanti a Stefan Svitko e Toby Price. Marc Coma è quinto e porta così la KTM 450 Rally alla vittoria assoluta a Buenos Aires: eguaglia le vittorie di Cyril Despres, ben cinque alla Dakar!
Coma precede il pilota della Honda Paulo Gonçalves e l'australiano della KTM Toby Price.

Sono quattro gli italiani che hanno saputo concludere questa massacrante edizione. Al 14esimo posto troviamo lo strepitoso Paolo Ceci. Ma bravissimi sono stati anche  Marco Brioschi (45esimo), Diocleziano Toia (56esimo) e Matteo Casuccio (59esimo).
La speciale di oggi è stata interrotta al check point numero due a causa della pioggia fortissima che ha colpito la regione (e tutta la Dakar, verrebbe da dire!).

Il polacco Rafal Sonik ha portato la sua Yamaha alla vittoria nei quad.

FONTE: ENDURONEWS.COM (http://www.enduronews.com/archive/1433.htm)

Coma wins fifth Dakar title; 14th victory for KTM

Red Bull KTM factory rider Marc Coma of Spain on Saturday sealed his fifth Dakar title and presented KTM with its fourteenth win in this offroad classic. Paolo Goncalves of Portugal took second place and KTM rookie Toby Price of Australia took the minor podium place.

Coma, A Red Bull athlete, rode to the start of the final Stage 13 with a 17-minute lead over Goncalves however riders were unable to complete the 393 km of the final stage into Buenos Aires after heavy rain made the track surface slippery and too dangerous. The race was halted at CP2 and Coma was declared the winner. The win for Coma equals that of his former KTM teammate Cyril Despres and represents the domination of these two riders on the event for a decade.

Coma tackled the Dakar with his usual passion and attention to detail, true to his belief that the only result that counts was that in the final day. He took victory in Stage Five and was top three in six other stages. He also rode with care and prudence in the two marathon stages, nursing a damaged tire in the first and safely bringing his KTM 450 RALLY home across the salt flats of Bolivia in wet conditions that resulted in many riders having to exit the rally after salt clogged their engines and electronics.

Marc Coma: “I’m happy and proud. As usual it was a grueling rally. We had to overcome a problem on the second day that slowed us down a bit in the rankings. So from then on we had to change the strategy a little and push to recover that time. We knew that the marathons would be key stages and they were. I am happy with the team and the people we have around us. This fifth win says a lot about all of us.” Coma also congratulated his two rivals Joan Barreda and Paolo Goncalves who he said were tough opponents. “The level was very high and this also makes the win very valuable,” he added.

The 2015 rally was an emotional roller coaster for the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team and the KTM-supported riders. Factory racer Sam Sunderland got things off to a brilliant start with a solid first stage win, only to get lost at the tail end of Stage Two in what was the longest stage in the 2015 edition. He then crashed out early in Stage Three and had to retire.

At the same time it was already clear that two young pretenders, KTM-supported Dakar newcomers Matthias Walkner of Austria and Australian Toby Price were out to impress. Both came to the Dakar with only one rally under their tires having raced the Morocco Rally in October. Both were also new to road book-style navigation.

Walkner drew attention early. After finishing 8-6 in the two opening stages he then won Stage Three. The rest of his rally saw him making great recoveries after difficult days until he finally succumbed to altitude sickness and stomach problems in Stage Nine and had to withdraw. It was an unfortunate end for a rider with great potential and as yet little experience and he exited after making his mark as a rider to watch in the future.

Price, a four-time winner of Australia’s Finke Desert classic said at the beginning of the rally that navigation would be difficult. He did have some difficulties in stages 4-6 but by the time he started in the final stage he had eight top five finishes and including a win in Stage 12. Price by then had moved up to third overall and was able to make it stick until the race was declared over.

Regular Red Bull KTM Factory rider Ruben Faria of Portugal finished sixth overall, which was a solid result given that Faria had broken his collarbone only six weeks before the rally. His teammate Jordi Viladoms was one rider who was unable to finish the difficult stage over the Bolivian salt flats. Villadoms was fifteenth overall when he retired from the race. KTM-supported rider Riaan van Niekerk also retired after Stage Seven left Bolivia. He was overall twelfth. Jakub Przygonski of Poland, a regular KTM-supported rider who competes for Team Orlen was eighteenth overall. He has had a difficult season after a serious injury in Abu Dhabi at the beginning of 2014.

Line honors in the final shortened stage went to three KTM riders. Ivan Jakes of Slovakia won the stage. Countryman Stefan Svitko finished second and Price was third. Svitko finishes fifth overall and Jakes was eighth overall. KTM riders took seven of the top 10 places in the 2015 edition.

The Dakar 2015 was indeed a battle of attrition. Of the 168 starters in the bikes division only 78 were on the starting line for the final run into Buenos Aires.

Dakar Rally Stage 12
1, Jakes, KTM at 52.06
2, Svitko, KTM at 00.45
3, Price, KTM at 1.07
4, Goncalves, 1.15
5, Coma, KTM, at 3.11
6, Vogels, KTM at 3:36
7, Frans Verhoeven, NDL, Yamaha at 4.35
8, Qunitanilla KTM, at 4.52
9, De Soultrait, FRA, Yamaha at 5.54
10, Lila Sanz, ESP, Honda at 7.55
Other KTM
12, Casteu, KTM at 8.16
15, Ceci, KTM at 9.51
16, Faria, KTM at 9.22

Final Standings
1, Marc Coma, ESP, KTM at 46.03.49 (5th Dakar title for Coma; 14th for KTM)
2, Paolo Goncalves, POR Honda at 16.53
3, Toby Price, AUS, KTM at 23.14
4, Pablo Qunitanilla, CHI, KTM at 38.38
5, Stefan Svitko, SVK, KTM at 44.17
6, Ruben Faria, POR, KTM at 1:57.50
7, David Casteu, FRA, KTM at 2:00.14
8, Ivan Jakes, SVK, KTM at 2:18.18

Final stage was halted at CP2 because of heavy rain deemed by organizers to make the surface too slippery and dangerous to continue the stage.