{"id":97282,"date":"2019-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre.boxrepsol.com\/uncategorized\/isidre-esteve-reaches-the-last-stage-just-outside-the-top-20-overall-ranking\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T07:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:15:41","slug":"isidre-esteve-reaches-the-last-stage-just-outside-the-top-20-overall-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boxrepsol.com\/en\/rally-en\/isidre-esteve-reaches-the-last-stage-just-outside-the-top-20-overall-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Isidre Esteve reaches the last stage just outside the top 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isidre Esteve is one day away from completing his third consecutive Dakar. The Repsol Rally Team driver has led a brilliant second week of competition coinciding with the toughest part of the course<\/strong>. On Wednesday, the driver from Oliana finished the penultimate stage in 24th position and is in 21st place in the provisional overall ranking.<\/p>\n

The day, starting and finishing in Pisco, consisted of a complicated special of 313 kilometres, again with the dunes as the main obstacle. Isidre Esteve and his co-driver Txema Villalobos put in a great performance<\/strong> at the wheel of their prototype BV6<\/a>, which allowed them to reach waypoint 5 with the 19th quickest time.<\/p>\n

“It was a very beautiful stage, with many dunes and beautiful areas that we drove through at a high speed until 30 kilometres from the end. There was a waypoint off the map and, when we realized this, we had already descended the dune. We had to turn around and, when we tried to reach it, we got stuck twice. We would have lost 45 minutes, but we were not the only ones, since that area seemed like a minefield with vehicles stranded everywhere\u201d<\/em>, explained Isidre Esteve.<\/p>\n

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