Elisabete Jacinto achieved at the second stage of the Morocco Desert Challenge rally, which took place today between Icht and Foum Zguid, the fourth place among trucks. The Portuguese move forward in the competition in second place in the overall classification of their category with a lead of 14 minutes for the third place, the Dutchman Gert Huzink who already won this same race in 2015.
In this stage, made up of 359 timed kilometers, the fast tracks were very favorable to the most powerful vehicles. Still, the Bio-Ritmo® team formed by Elisabete Jacinto, José Marques and Marco Cochinho, spent 5:01:00 to complete the selective sector, finishing with a 15-minute difference for Belgian Igor Bouwens who, at the commands of an IVECO, ended in the third place of this stage. The Portuguese team was also nine minutes faster than the sixth pilot of the car category, position occupied by the Frenchman Michel Visy, who completed the special in 5:10:25.
Elisabete Jacinto and her team completed another stage without problems:
“This stage was very different compared to yesterday. We’ve walked on very fast tracks and full speed ahead. Because the other trucks are more powerful than ours they have quickly overtaken us. However, this position is somewhat comfortable because tomorrow we will enter the dunes and it is good to have other trucks in front of us so we can go on their tracks. We did the whole stage without problems and it went well “, revealed the Portuguese driver.
For the third stage of the Morocco Desert Challenge, which will be held tomorrow between the Moroccan cities of Foum Zguid and Oum Jrane, is reserved a day with a wide variety of tracks that will alternate between fast and technical routes and slower paths with many stones and deep holes. The navigation will be, once again, complex. It will be in the crossing of the Lac Iriki and in the passages by the immense dunes of the Erg Chegaga that will appear the greater difficulties of this special composed by 345 timed kilometers.