Day 15

Car 1 finishes at 33rd. Team maintains its one-two lead in the class.
Dakar Rally 2016 is now in its final stages, with three more days to go until the last day of competition on January 16. On January 14, contestants raced on a 431km SS between La Rioja and San Juan, Argentina, and battled under intense heat in a stage mixed with dried riverbeds, sandy terrain, fesh-fesh, as well as barren terrain whose surface was as hard as it was uneven. The average speed for the entire course was on the low end, and a number of vehicles were seen overheated or stuck in fesh-fesh along the way.

The itinerary for tomorrow, January 15, includes a 481km SS en route to Villa Carlos Paz, which will essentially be the last timed segment for this year’s rally.