Dakar SS10 Red Bull: Peterhansel’s roller coaster

Peterhansel et Cottret dans l'étape 10

Collision caused Dakar legend to lose Stage 10 before getting time back to take overall lead.

Racing resumed on Thursday at Dakar Rally 2017 with a 449-kilometre stage from Chilecito to San Juan in Argentina.

 

And it wasn’t plain racing: Stéphane Peterhansel’s collision with another competitor temporally upset the car rankings, biker Stefan Svitko fell of exhaustion just after taking third, and Eduard Nikolaev became the new truck leader.  

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Stéphane Peterhansel led the race early on, before his collision with biker Simon Mar

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