Desafio Inca 2018: Terranova, Price, Uribe and Salvatierra are the first race leaders

Orlando Terranova is the first leader of Desafio Inca, after winning friday’s leg with his Mini John Cooper Works. The first leader of the race was Francisco Leon, but later Terranova assumed the front of the race with 5h54m of total time.

Francisco “Pancho” Leon finished the day in the second spot, 11m10s behind the Argentinian. Álvaro Brandes finished third , already 53m53s behind the race leader.

In the Motorbikes, the Australian rider Toby Price scored the best result with his official KTM from Red Bull KTM Racing Factory, taking 4h10m19s to race the 338 stage.

Adrien Van Beveren from the Yamaha Yamalube Racing Team finished second at 2m1s from Price, and in third Ignacio Cornejo de from Monster Energy Honda Racing Team,at 2m24s.

The local driver Juan Carlos Uribe (Can Am Maverick) is the provisional leader with 4h55m11s, after an intense fight with the returned Francisco “Chaleco” Lopez (Can Am Maverick) who after being away from competition returned to make is début in an SxS Casey Currie from the USA is thrid at 9m23s from Uribe

Finally, in the quad category the first race leader is the Bolivian Juan Carlos Salvatierra riding an Barren Racer One. Salvatiera, a former motorbike racer changed to the quads and is improving performance very fast needing 5h05m to complete the stage. Ignacio Flores was second at 6m59s and Emilio Choy third at 36m59s, both in Yamaha Raptor.

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The seven-strong South Racing Can-Am racing team made a strong start to its challenge for honours in Peru’s Desafio Inca, Peru’s round of the Dakar Series, on Friday.

The team has entered seven South Racing-run Can-Am Maverick X3s in the event and the crews tackled two special stages during the opening leg that wound its way through the Pacific coastal deserts near the towns of Ica and Pisco.

American racer Casey Currie teamed up with French navigator Laurent Lichtleuchter to lead the way for the South Racing Can-Am team at the end of the leg , the experienced off-road driver finishing the day in third place behind Can-Am Peru ‘s stage two winner Juan Carlos Uribe and Chile’s former Dakar bike rider Francesco ‘Chaleco’ Lopez.

The experienced Brazilian driver Reinaldo Varela and his regular co-driver Gustavo Gugelmin were fourth and the Brazilian pairing of Cristian Baumgart and Alberto Neto were classified in fifth. Chile’s Hernan Garces opted to race alone in his Can-Am and held an impressive sixth overall.

Argentina’s Adrian Yacopini and Ricardo Torlaschi ceded some time to their rivals in the fiercely contested SxS category and returned to Ica in seventh position.

Portugal’s Miguel Jordão and Lourial Roldan were classified in ninth, but delays cost Brazil’s Marcos Baumgart and his navigator Kleber Cincea over an hour and a half and they were down in 14th of the 22 survivors after day one.

The rally continues with two further gruelling desert stages in the Peruvian deserts around Ica on Saturday and Sunday.

Source: South Racing

Desafio Inca 2018: South Racing Can-Am Team makes strong start