Fernando Alonso and Marc Coma were able to complete the Lichtenburg 400 , fifth scoring test for the South Africa Rally Raids Championship, despite suffering a spectacular turnaround in the first leg of the route this Saturday, which caused numerous damage to his Toyota Hylux .
A day after confirming that Coma will be the co-driver of the Asturian in the next Dakar , both suffered an accident with a puncture and significant damage to the windshield, which forced them to interrupt the tour.
The overturn made them distance 25 minutes from the head and sign a time of two hours and 19 minutes in the first part of the test.
Once the necessary arrangements were made, Alonso and Coma completed the rest of the route of another 187 kilometers, but outside the competition, although they could do it with similar times to the pilots who fought for the victory with a time of 1 hour, 57 minutes and 56 seconds, to be eleventh overall.
The triumph was finally for the South African Giniel de Villiers , who won his compatriot Henk Lategan, leader of the championship.
"A thousand and one things today. Many 'first times' and some things we had to discover ... I overturn. Repairs. Driving with motocross goggles. Swallowing dust. Running out of glass again, now with a bird. Puncture. Intensive learning. See you later. soon and with more, "Fernando Alonso wrote on his Twitter account.
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