News : Rally Dakar 2012, Coma wins stage 12 and back to top of standings

Marc Coma won Stage 12 Dakar Rally 2012 with a route from Arequipa to Nasca in Peru. Coma Depres leave rivals are only able to finish in 4th position.

Coma recorded the best time of 2:24:38 and locked the fifth victory in 2012. While Depres 3:57 adrift behind Coma. The second and third positions respectively obtained by Joan Barreda and Jordi Bort Viladoms.

This victory makes Coma back to the top of standings and displacing Cyril Despres with advantages of time 1 minute 35 seconds. The third place was occupied by Helder Rodrigues by a margin of 1 hour 13 minutes 49 seconds from Coma.

While in the car category, league leaders Peterhansel only able to occupy seventh positions in stage of 12th. He finished in 2 hours 40 minutes 59 seconds. This stage won by Robby Gordon with the best record time of 2 hours 14 minutes 32 seconds.

However, with finish in 7th, Peterhansel still leads the overall standings with 20 minute advantage over Nani Roma. De Villiers was in third place, closed to within 1 hour 6 minutes 40 seconds of Peterhansel.

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News : Rally Dakar 2012, Coma and Al-Attiyah wins the Seventh Stage

Marc Coma tried to approach the leadership race in 2012 Dakar Rally bike category Cyril Despres, winning the seventh stage. While Nasser Al-Attiyah won the car category.

Coma and Despres still continue the fight. Once in the previous stage had dibatakan, Goma directly dominated the stage with a record seventh time of 3:51:35.

These results make the gap with the leaders also race on KTM team, Despres with a time of 07:48 seconds. At the stage that is 200 miles this Despres finished in second place.

While in the car category, Al-Attiyah won the stage is capable rising with the Hammer car and record time of 3:26:57. In the second position is occupied by Robby Gordon who also use Hammer.

Stephane Peterhansel was third with a mini car. But it still does not undermine in position of overalls with a record time of 15:32:53 and Krzysztof Hołowczyc in the second position.

While in the truck category, Gerard de Rooy won the stage with a time of 4:20:32. The results also make the rider from Netherlands is still leading the overalls up to this stage.

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