Yamaha’s Helder Rodrigues grabbed his maiden stage win in 2016 Dakar Rally Stage 12. Current overall leader, KTM’s Toby Price finished second fastest followed by Honda rider Kevin Benavides at 3rd. KTM’ Stefan Svitko retains his 2nd position in Overall classification trailed by Pablo Quintanilla of Rockstar Husqvarna team at 3rd place.
While nothing is guaranteed in the Dakar, But if Price won his 1st Dakar in Rosario on Saturday (local time), it will earn him a slice of history to be the 1st Australian champion.
Toby Price Said – “I haven’t really looked into the history of results yet, I’ll look at that tomorrow once it’s all done. If that happens it will be a bit of history and I’ll be pretty stoked with that.”
Antoine Meo, stage 11 winner lost his way and then suffered a disastrous off just a few kilometres from the finish line. The unseen bump in the track threw him over the handlebars and cost him ample time, dropping him from top-three contention for the day down to 23rd.
Sherco TVS rider Florent Vayssade finished 12th stage at 23rd place with an overall ranking at 27th Place. While Alain Duclos managed to finish the stage at 55th place and ranked 42nd overall.
