San Juan, Argentina - January 3, 2012 - A new day, a new MINI driver leading the Rally Dakar: as Stéphane Peterhansel is forced to change two tyres, Krzysztof Holowczyc seizes the moment to race into first place overall. Leonid Novitskiy ended day one of the Rally Dakar in first place in his orange MINI ALL4 Racing, before Stéphane Peterhansel replaced the Russian as the overnight leader in his green MINI on Monday. Today it was Krzysztof Holowczyc's turn to shine in a red MINI. The second fastest time of the day saw Krzysztof Holowczyc move to the top of the overall standings.
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Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc and his Belgian navigator Jean-Marc Fortin in the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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San Juan, Argentina - January 3, 2012
A new day, a new MINI driver leading the Rally Dakar: as Stéphane Peterhansel is forced to change two tyres, Krzysztof Holowczyc seizes the moment to race into first place overall.
The X-raid Team's colourful display at the top of the overall standings continues.
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Beginning in Argentina and ending 9000 kilometers away in Peru, the 2012 Dakar Rally will be the ultimate endurance test of man and machine.
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Leonid Novitskiy ended day one of the Rally Dakar in first place in his orange MINI ALL4 Racing, before Stéphane Peterhansel replaced the Russian as the overnight leader in his green MINI on Monday.
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X-raid Team. MINI ALL4 Racing drivers
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Today it was Krzysztof Holowczyc's turn to shine in a red MINI.
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Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc and his Belgian navigator Jean-Marc Fortin in the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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The second fastest time of the day saw Krzysztof move to the top of the overall standings.
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Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc and his Belgian navigator Jean-Marc Fortin in the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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Only team-mate Nani Roma clocked a faster time over the 208 timed kilometres between San Rafael and San Juan, winning the stage with a 1:09 minute lead over Krzysztof.
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Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc and his Belgian navigator Jean-Marc Fortin in the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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Meanwhile, Stéphane Peterhansel, who led the field for over half of the stage, was twice forced to stop and change a tyre.
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Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc and his Belgian navigator Jean-Marc Fortin in the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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"It is frustrating, but that kind of thing happens sometimes," said
Stéphane upon arriving at the bivouac with the seventh fastest time for the third stage.
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Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc and his Belgian navigator Jean-Marc Fortin in the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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The nine-time Dakar winner drops back to fifth place overall – for the moment.
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French pairing Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret in the MINI ALL4 Racing.
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One man who was obviously delighted with his day's work was Nani, who had already set the fifth fastest time on Monday's second stage.
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French pairing Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret in the MINI ALL4 Racing.
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Nani:
"The stage victory is great, but it is still a long way to Lima."
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Krzysztof Holowczyc (Poland), the ORLEN X-Raid MINI ALL4 Racing, move to the top of the overall standings.
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He is not wrong there: the teams and drivers have completed a mere eighth of the overall distance.
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Spain’s Nani Roma and his French co-driver Michel Périn
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Having climbed 3000 metres in the foothills of the Andes on day three, Wednesday's route to Chilecito approaches the 3400-metre mark.
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German-Russian pairing Leonid Novitskiy / Andi Schulz in the orange Monster Energy X-raid MINI All4 Racing
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326 kilometres will be timed, while the cars must cover a total distance of 750 kilometres.
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The Portuguese pairing Ricardo Leal dos Santos / Paulo Fiuza
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Leonid Novitskiy will also be looking to continue his climb through the field: he made up one place in the overall rankings today and now lies seventh.
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Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc and his Belgian navigator Jean-Marc Fortin in the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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Meanwhile,
Leonid's team-mate Ricardo Leal dos Santos is now fully aware of just how perilous the Dakar route can be.
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Krzysztof Holowczyc (Poland), the ORLEN MINI ALL4 Racing.
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Ricardo drove into a mud hole just one kilometre from the end of the stage, having clocked the fifth fastest intermediate time of the stage shortly beforehand.
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The ORLEN X-Raid Team
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Keep your fingers crossed for day four of the Rally Dakar then.
Throughout the Rally Dakar, you can keep up to speed with the latest news from the X-raid Team and the five MINI ALL4 Racings on the MINI Motorsport Twitter channel.
Source: MINI Motorsport
http://www.minimotorsport.com/en/news/
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ASTROMAN Magazine - 2012.01.02
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http://www.astroman.com.pl/index.php?mod=magazine&a=read&id=1141
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