• Rally: Sainz's clue tightens the Dakar even more

The Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (Toyota) suffered a turnaround on Wednesday during the tenth stage of the Dakar that forced him to stop after having suffered some damage to the vehicle.

Alonso's car took a couple of bell turns when crossing a dune in an area of ​​spectators when he was barely a kilometer of the 345 that made up the timed section of the day.

The mishap is even more serious if you consider that this is the marathon stage of the Dakar, where competitors do not have their mechanics to repair their units and any breakdown must be resolved by the vehicle crew .

If you need a spare part that you do not have in your car, you must wait for the truck to assist the Toyota Hilux of the Asturian driver, which may take several hours to arrive.

The tenth stage of the Dakar is disputed between Haradh and Shubaytah , on a route mostly composed of dunes where the caravan entered the "Empty Room" of Saudi Arabia, a huge desert of about 650,000 square kilometers practically uninhabited.

In the same conditions in which he manages to repair the car he will have to face the eleventh stage, with a very similar terrain, since the competitors will return to Haradh to define the rally in the last stage towards Qiddiya, a large leisure city that is built just outside riad.

Fernando Alonso marched in the tenth position of the general classification of the Dakar, having chained four stages in a row where he had finished in the top ten, including second place in the eighth stage.

It is the second major incident that Alonso suffers in almost 3,000 kilometers of rally after in the second stage he lost two and a half hours to repair a wheel that broke when he hit a stone in the middle of a cloud of dust.

The Dakar 2020 is played entirely in Saudi Arabia , with twelve stages from January 5 to 17, with a distance of almost 8,000 kilometers, of which almost 5,000 are timed.

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