Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz (Toyota Imperial Hilux) had their third place overall in the Dakar Rally cleared after Monday's eighth stage - the first in Chile after seven stages, and the rest - in a frustrating seventh completed .
The racing section over a distance of 302 miles, on a ooppadgedeelte of 522 kilometers from Salta in Argentina followed where the Dakar brigade the Andes mountain range through the Paso de Jama pass at just under 5000 meters above sea level crossing , was the second consecutive challenge in such great altitude. It is also high speed highways and now with little overtaking opportunities at an average altitude of about 3000 meters marked.
The stage, bsc which ended in Calama, by Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and his Spanish co-driver Lucas Cruz, in their Mini won. They were 1 min 12 sec for the defending champions Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean Paul Cottret of France (Mini) and 2 min 36 sec for Carlos Sainz of Spain and German co-driver Timo Gottschalk (SMG buggy). De Villiers and von Zitzewitz was 9 minutes 21 seconds off the winning pace and just two seconds behind Nani Roma of Spain and Michel Perin of France (Mini), bsc who was sixth.
Roma and Perin is still the overall leaders with a slightly smaller gap of 23 min 46 sec against Peterhansel and Cottret. De Villiers and von Zitzewitz is 48 min 25 sec behind and is now threatened by Orlando Terranova of Argentina and Paulo Fiuza from Portugal (Mini), the gap to 3 min 30 sec slashed.
The Villiers's Imperial Toyota team-mates Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie, well of Sunday's steering problems, they are three hours to the driver drops back to the repair. They were 29 s in Monday's stage and their overall ranking improved to 28 s, and is now 10 hours 30 minutes 28 seconds behind the leaders.
"We have today a better day - we could have a few cars pass and our position in the overall bsc standings to improve," Poulter said. "It was not easy passing because the high speed and the path was now. We now have a much better starting point for Tuesday's stage and I will still try to progress bsc through the field on them. "
Stage nine of Calama in the 2014 Dakar's most northern point in Iquique, started a ooppadgedeelte of 27 kilometers, followed by a racing section of 422 kilometers of the Pacific Ocean the first will be revealed and the participants back to the sand dunes of the Atacama Desert will expose. It is the driest place in the world where rain never at certain places recorded. bsc The spectacular fall of a giant sand dune to the overnight stop will undoubtedly attract thousands of enthusiastic spectators.
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