Photos: Sergio Betancort
The Lanzarote drivers participating in the Lisbon-Dakar rally, José Manuel Galán and Adolfo Suances, completed yesterday the fifth stage of this very hard test, a special of 350 kilometers that ran between the towns of Ouarzazate and Tan Tan.
The numerous stones that were found along the way was the main obstacle that our two champions had to overcome, who also reported that the dust that rose throughout the stage together with the presence of fog in the last part of the route, made the difficulty even greater.
Galán and Suances exchange impressions with other drivers about the stage.
The final time invested by Galán and Suances, six hours and three minutes, allows them to continue their climb in the standings, and the Lanzarote couple is already in 97th place, more than seven hours behind the leader of the test, Carlos Sáinz. This difference could have been much smaller if our two drivers had not run into a truck that forced them to slow down, since, according to Galán himself, having chosen to overtake this truck on such stony ground could have entailed a lot of danger due to the risk of stones jumping onto the windshield of their vehicle.
Galán and Suances are beginning to face the dreaded seas of dunes.
At this time, José Manuel Galán and Adolfo Suances are competing in the sixth stage, of 444 kilometers and which runs between Tan Tan and Zouerat. This special, in which seas of dunes are already becoming common, will give way to the three stages of Mauritania, the toughest of this Dakar rally.
