The BP Final Rally-Raid, the third spherical of the World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC), started this Wednesday in Alentejo. Tosha Schareina was the quickest within the prologue and the primary stage.
Within the prologue, the Spanish rider from Monster Power Honda accomplished the 4km timed stage in 3m29s to outpace his teammate Adrien van Beveren by two seconds. Edgar Canet Ardèvol (XRaids Expertise/KTM) achieved the third quickest time, adopted by Ross Department and Sebastian Bühler (Hero MotoSports). The highest 5 had been separated by lower than ten seconds.
The primary stage had 101km of timed sections throughout the afternoon. Schareina was as soon as once more the quickest, this time beating Lorenzo Santolino (Sherco) by a transparent margin of 4m02s. Following carefully was Skyler Howes (Monster Power Honda) at 4m13s, with the massive shock being António Maio’s fourth place on a Yamaha. Pablo Quintanilla (Monster Power Honda) rounded out the highest 5, however incurred a four-minute penalty. Bühler completed sixth and, a bit additional down.
After the opening day, Schareina leads the BP Final Rally-Raid with a 4m15s benefit over Santolino. Howes is third, Maio is fourth, and Quintanilla is fifth forward of Bühler and Department. Van Beveren is simply 14th after incurring a 12-minute penalty, costing him the victory within the first stage.
