Dakar Rally: Stage 10

Published: 17 January 2007 Updated: 24 November 2014

Esteve Pujol on Stage 10

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Portugal’s Helder Rodrigues won stage 10 of the Dakar Rally, beating overall leader Marc Coma by just 44 seconds.

This was also a change to the last few days with Rodrigues on his Yamaha ending the KTM take over with his time of 40:55:10.

Cyril Despres finished the stage in Nema in third place in a time of 4:13:46, which also keeps him in overall second position.

Paul Broome was the faster of the two British riders over stage 10, completing the 400km in 6:03:29 in 89th place. This places him two positions lower than after stage nine at 113th.

Steve Malone was in 131st place on his KTM recording a time of 7:26:03. This puts the 46-year-old in overall 116th with a total time of 69:43:26.

Top 20 results after Stage 10:

Pos. Name Make Time Variation Penalty

1 RODRIGUES (POR) YAMAHA 04:12:55 00:00:00

2 COMA (ESP) KTM 04:13:39 00:00:44

3 DESPRES (FRA) KTM 04:13:46 00:00:51

4 VINTERS (LAT) KTM 04:15:48 00:02:53

5 CASTEU (FRA) KTM 04:17:36 00:04:41

6 BETHYS (FRA) HONDA 04:19:56 00:07:01

7 BLAIS (USA) KTM 04:19:56 00:07:01

8 MARCHINI (FRA) YAMAHA 04:20:22 00:07:27

9 DE AZEVEDO (BRE) KTM 04:21:41 00:08:46

10 ULLEVALSETER (NOR) KTM 04:25:53 00:12:58

11 VERHOEVEN (HOL) KTM 04:27:42 00:14:47

12 GONCALVES (POR) HONDA 04:30:24 00:17:29

13 ESTEVE PUJOL (ESP) KTM 04:33:52 00:20:57

14 KNUIMAN (HOL) HONDA 04:39:38 00:26:43

15 KATRINAK (SLQ) KTM 04:40:14 00:27:19

16 CZACHOR (POL) KTM 04:40:41 00:27:46

17 PAIN (FRA) YAMAHA 04:42:30 00:29:35

18 VINTERS (LAT) KTM 04:42:38 00:29:43

19 BERGLUND (SUE) KTM 04:43:02 00:30:07

20 ALGAY (FRA) YAMAHA 04:48:34 00:35:39

British results after Stage 10:

89 BROOME (ENG) HONDA 06:03:29 01:50:34

131 MALONE (UK) KTM 07:26:03 03:13:08

By Sarah Carnell

Esteve Pujol on Stage 10