Joan Barreda made an important step in the longest stage of this 2015 Dakar edition, in a 518 kilometers of distance which the Valencian made in slightly more than five hours. The Honda star driver took a lot of minutes of distance between his opponents, taking the lead of the rally.
The second classified in the today’s stage has been Paulo Gonçalves, but he finishes so far from Barreda, concretely slightly more than six minutes. This cause the second place in the standings for the Portuguese rider. Meanwhile the current champion, Marc Coma, had a problem in the final of the stage and he lost an important time there for the standings.
On third place today we have Rubén Faria. Jordi Viladoms, the backpacker of the 2014 champion made an attack on today’s stage to finishes on 4th place.
Joan Pedrero closes the top10 position today and takes the tenth place in the standings. The Catalan girl, Laia Sanz, finishes on 16th place after suffer a problem.
Tomorrow’s stage of Dakar 2015 edition will be more peaceful than today, with no such as distance as today. The stage will start in San Juan and it will finish on Chilecito.
Quotes
Joan Barreda Bort:
“I am really happy. Today was amazing. It was really hard, really tough in the last part of special with a lot of tracks and a lot of bumps and it was so physical. But today was one of these days where it is important to get to the finish and we’ve got here so we are really happy. I was alone in some parts, but the most important was to remain calm over the first kilometres and finally we did a really good job. I think it’s a good opportunity for victory but the race is really close, so if we can perform like today and gain some minutes and seconds, then it’s very important”
Paulo Gonçalves:
“Today was a really, really long and hard stage. It was more than 500 km but with really difficult tracks, a lot of rocks and a last 45 km that was amazing. There was some super grass and a section with sand. With this temperature it was really, really hard, but I’m happy to be here. In the middle of the stage I lost a little bit of time trying to find a way point. I lost the others and for the last 200 km I was on my own, but I’m happy for me, for HRC and especially for Joan, because he rode a really, really, really, really smart race today. He just started pushing after 350 km, so congratulations to Joan. I thought we were very brave today because it was a really difficult day. This was a really typical Dakar stage; it wasn’t a normal Dakar stage, but one with a high amount of difficulty”.
Marc Coma:
“We know that today was a very tough day. We started in the morning with a good feeling, not pushing too hard because we knew it was a long day. But on the other side, I felt that 60 km from the end my rear tyre was finished and I started to ride no faster than 60 kmph, no faster than that. Ok, we lost some time today, but at the end I’m lucky because normally I could have stayed stuck in the desert all the day”.
Results:
| Pos. | Rider | Team | Pen. | Time | Gap | Int | |
| 1 | Joan Barreda Bort | ESP | HONDA | – | 5:46:06 | ||
| 2 | Paulo Goncalves | PRT | HONDA | – | 5:52:19 | + 06:13 | |
| 3 | Ruben Faria | PRT | KTM | – | 5:55:22 | + 09:16 | + 03:03 |
| 4 | Jordi Viladoms | ESP | KTM | – | 5:55:26 | + 09:20 | + 00:04 |
| 5 | Toby Price | AUS | KTM | – | 5:55:48 | + 09:42 | + 00:22 |
| 6 | Matthias Walkner | AUT | KTM | – | 5:57:31 | + 11:25 | + 01:43 |
| 7 | Helder Rodrigues | PRT | HONDA | – | 5:57:41 | + 11:35 | + 00:10 |
| 8 | Marc Coma | ESP | KTM | – | 5:58:38 | + 12:32 | + 00:57 |
| 9 | Jeremias Israel Esquerre | CHL | HONDA | – | 6:01:55 | + 15:49 | + 03:17 |
| 10 | Juan Pedrero Garcia | ESP | YAMAHA | – | 6:02:51 | + 16:45 | + 00:56 |
| 11 | Stefan Svitko | SVK | KTM | – | 6:04:06 | + 18:00 | + 01:15 |
| 12 | Riaan Van Niekerk | ZAF | KTM | – | 6:07:50 | + 21:44 | + 03:44 |
| 13 | Alain Duclos | FRA | SHERCO TVS | – | 6:08:01 | + 21:55 | + 00:11 |
| 14 | Pablo Quintanilla | CHL | KTM | – | 6:08:56 | + 22:50 | + 00:55 |
| 15 | David Casteu | FRA | KTM | – | 6:09:26 | + 23:20 | + 00:30 |
| 16 | Laia Sanz Pla-Giribert | ESP | HONDA | – | 6:09:40 | + 23:34 | + 00:14 |
| 17 | Michael Metge | FRA | YAMAHA | – | 6:11:31 | + 25:25 | + 01:51 |
| 18 | Alessandro Botturi | ITA | YAMAHA | – | 6:12:17 | + 26:11 | + 00:46 |
| 19 | Olivier Pain | FRA | YAMAHA | – | 6:12:25 | + 26:19 | + 00:08 |
| 20 | Ivan Jakes | SVK | KTM | – | 6:17:11 | + 31:05 | + 04:46 |
| 21 | Xavier De Soultrait | FRA | YAMAHA | – | 6:18:45 | + 32:39 | + 01:34 |
| 22 | Jakub Przygonski | POL | KTM | – | 6:18:49 | + 32:43 | + 00:04 |
| 23 | Hans Vogels | NLD | KTM | – | 6:21:20 | + 35:14 | + 02:31 |
| 24 | Daniel Gouet | CHL | HONDA | – | 6:22:02 | + 35:56 | + 00:42 |
| 25 | Fabien Planet | FRA | SHERCO TVS | – | 6:25:23 | + 39:17 | + 03:21 |
| 26 | Juan Carlos Salvatierra | BOL | KTM | – | 6:32:18 | + 46:12 | + 06:55 |
| 27 | Marc Guasch | ESP | YAMAHA | – | 6:32:28 | + 46:22 | + 00:10 |
| 28 | Patricio Cabrera | CHL | KAWASAKI | – | 6:34:38 | + 48:32 | + 02:10 |
| 29 | Frans Verhoeven | NLD | YAMAHA | – | 6:34:41 | + 48:35 | + 00:03 |
| 30 | Jean De Azevedo | BRA | HONDA | – | 6:37:51 | + 51:45 | + 03:10 |
| 31 | Mario Patrao | PRT | SUZUKI | – | 6:38:50 | + 52:44 | + 00:59 |
| 32 | Txomin Arana Cobeaga | ESP | YAMAHA | – | 6:40:41 | + 54:35 | + 01:51 |
| 33 | Romain Souvignet | FRA | KTM | – | 6:43:00 | + 56:54 | + 02:19 |
| 34 | Franck Verhoestraete | COG | SHERCO | – | 6:43:29 | + 57:23 | + 00:29 |
| 35 | Paolo Ceci | ITA | KTM | – | 6:43:57 | + 57:51 | + 00:28 |
| 36 | Ondrej Klymciw | CZE | KTM | – | 6:47:33 | + 1:01:27 | + 03:36 |
| 37 | David Pabiska | CZE | KTM | – | 6:48:05 | + 1:01:59 | + 00:32 |
| 38 | Thomas Berglund | SWE | KTM | – | 6:48:10 | + 1:02:04 | + 00:05 |
| 39 | Esteban Ariel Lopez Jove | ARG | KAWASAKI | – | 6:53:45 | + 1:07:39 | + 05:35 |
| 40 | Bruno Da Costa | FRA | YAMAHA | – | 6:56:19 | + 1:10:13 | + 02:34 |
| 41 | Jurgen Van Den Goorbergh | NLD | KTM | – | 7:03:34 | + 1:17:28 | + 07:15 |
| 42 | Hugo Payen | FRA | YAMAHA | – | 7:04:17 | + 1:18:11 | + 00:43 |
| 43 | Miran Stanovnik | SVN | KTM | – | 7:05:11 | + 1:19:05 | + 00:54 |
| 44 | Pablo Oscar Pascual | ARG | KTM | – | 7:08:37 | + 1:22:31 | + 03:26 |
| 45 | Mauricio Javier Gomez | ARG | YAMAHA | – | 7:09:19 | + 1:23:13 | + 00:42 |
| 46 | Jakub Piatek | POL | KTM | – | 7:10:41 | + 1:24:35 | + 01:22 |
| 47 | Milan Engel | CZE | KTM | – | 7:12:58 | + 1:26:52 | + 02:17 |
| 48 | David Gregory Reeve | ZMB | KTM | – | 7:15:42 | + 1:29:36 | + 02:44 |
| 49 | Gerard Farres Guell | ESP | GASGAS | – | 7:16:09 | + 1:30:03 | + 00:27 |
| 50 | Santosh Chunchunguppe Shivashankar | IND | KTM | – | 7:16:39 | + 1:30:33 | + 00:30 |
| 51 | German Fernandez | URY | KAWASAKI | – | 7:17:53 | + 1:31:47 | + 01:14 |
| 52 | Jan Van Gerven | NLD | KTM | – | 7:24:55 | + 1:38:49 | + 07:02 |
| 53 | Emanuel Gyenes | ROU | KTM | – | 7:27:20 | + 1:41:14 | + 02:25 |
| 54 | Felipe Rios | PER | KTM | – | 7:30:55 | + 1:44:49 | + 03:35 |
| 55 | Marco Brioschi | ITA | KTM | – | 7:31:09 | + 1:45:03 | + 00:14 |
| 56 | Laurent Lazard | URY | KTM | – | 7:32:33 | + 1:46:27 | + 01:24 |
| 57 | Francisco Arredondo | GTM | KTM | – | 7:34:19 | + 1:48:13 | + 01:46 |
| 58 | Patrice Carillon | FRA | KTM | – | 7:34:28 | + 1:48:22 | + 00:09 |
| 59 | Eduardo Heinrich | PER | SUZUKI | – | 7:36:48 | + 1:50:42 | + 02:20 |
| 60 | Mauro Ayesa | ARG | BETA | – | 7:38:04 | + 1:51:58 | + 01:16 |
| 61 | Fabricio Fuentes | BOL | KTM | – | 7:38:06 | + 1:52:00 | + 00:02 |
| 62 | Janos Desi | HUN | KTM | – | 7:42:27 | + 1:56:21 | + 04:21 |
| 63 | Jorge Lacunza | ARG | KTM | – | 7:42:36 | + 1:56:30 | + 00:09 |
| 64 | Philippe Cavelius | FRA | KTM | – | 7:45:31 | + 1:59:25 | + 02:55 |
| 65 | Sjaak Martens | NLD | KTM | – | 7:48:03 | + 2:01:57 | + 02:32 |
| 66 | Javier Pizzolito | ARG | HONDA | – | 7:49:50 | + 2:03:44 | + 01:47 |
| 67 | Gustavo Bassi | ARG | YAMAHA | – | 7:51:11 | + 2:05:05 | + 01:21 |
| 68 | Alberto Brioschi | ITA | KTM | – | 7:56:27 | + 2:10:21 | + 05:16 |
| 69 | Albert Hintenaus | ZAF | KTM | – | 7:59:48 | + 2:13:42 | + 03:21 |
| 70 | Jan Vesely | CZE | KTM | – | 8:01:59 | + 2:15:53 | + 02:11 |
| 71 | Juan Esteban Sarmiento Ceron | COL | YAMAHA | – | 8:03:36 | + 2:17:30 | + 01:37 |
| 72 | Marcel Butuza | ROU | KTM | – | 8:09:24 | + 2:23:18 | + 05:48 |
| 73 | Sam Sunderland | GBR | KTM | – | 8:12:54 | + 2:26:48 | + 03:30 |
| 74 | Michael Pisano | FRA | KTM | – | 8:16:37 | + 2:30:31 | + 03:43 |
| 75 | Claudio Rodriguez | CHL | KTM | – | 8:17:14 | + 2:31:08 | + 00:37 |
| 76 | Diego Demelchori | ARG | KAWASAKI | – | 8:18:53 | + 2:32:47 | + 01:39 |
| 77 | Damien Udry | CHE | KTM | – | 8:23:34 | + 2:37:28 | + 04:41 |
| 78 | Mateo Moreno Kristiansen | COL | KTM | – | 8:24:23 | + 2:38:17 | + 00:49 |
| 79 | Francisco Errazuriz | CHL | HUQSVARNA | – | 8:28:13 | + 2:42:07 | + 03:50 |
| 80 | Florent Vayssade | FRA | SHERCO | – | 8:30:03 | + 2:43:57 | + 01:50 |
| 81 | Marco Reinike | CHL | KTM | – | 8:35:49 | + 2:49:43 | + 05:46 |
| 82 | Simon Pavey | AUS | KTM | – | 8:39:11 | + 2:53:05 | + 03:22 |
| 83 | Llewellyn Sullivan-Pavey | AUS | KTM | – | 8:42:21 | + 2:56:15 | + 03:10 |
| 84 | Mart Meeru | EST | HONDA | – | 8:42:30 | + 2:56:24 | + 00:09 |
| 85 | Pablo Rodriguez | ARG | HONDA | – | 8:57:23 | + 3:11:17 | + 14:53 |
| 86 | Pawel Stasiaczek | POL | KTM | – | 8:57:32 | + 3:11:26 | + 00:09 |
| 87 | Michal Hernik | POL | KTM | – | 8:58:01 | + 3:11:55 | + 00:29 |
| 88 | Kevin Echeveste | ARG | HONDA | – | 9:15:51 | + 3:29:45 | + 17:50 |
| 89 | Demian Guiral | ARG | HONDA | – | 9:15:53 | + 3:29:47 | + 00:02 |
| 90 | Jan Bastiaan Nijen Twilhaar | NLD | KTM | – | 9:18:31 | + 3:32:25 | + 02:38 |
| 91 | Miguel Puertas | ESP | KTM | – | 9:21:43 | + 3:35:37 | + 03:12 |
| 92 | Cristobal Andres Guldman Gonzalez | CHL | KAWASAKI | – | 9:22:01 | + 3:35:55 | + 00:18 |
| 93 | Cesare Zacchetti | ITA | KTM | – | 9:25:10 | + 3:39:04 | + 03:09 |
| 94 | Alberto Santiago Ontiveros | ARG | BETA | – | 9:27:02 | + 3:40:56 | + 01:52 |
| 95 | Serkan Ozdemir | TUR | KTM | – | 9:32:44 | + 3:46:38 | + 05:42 |
| 96 | Eric Croquelois | FRA | KTM | – | 9:34:11 | + 3:48:05 | + 01:27 |
| 97 | Anders Berglund | SWE | HUSABERG | – | 9:35:11 | + 3:49:05 | + 01:00 |
| 98 | Sakir Senkalayci | TUR | KTM | – | 9:37:44 | + 3:51:38 | + 02:33 |
| 99 | Jean-Christophe Menard | FRA | KTM | – | 9:41:02 | + 3:54:56 | + 03:18 |
| 100 | Guillaume Martens | NLD | KTM | – | 9:42:57 | + 3:56:51 | + 01:55 |
| 101 | Melchior Van Heertum | NLD | KTM | – | 9:44:17 | + 3:58:11 | + 01:20 |
| 102 | Caspar Van Heertum | NLD | KTM | – | 9:45:26 | + 3:59:20 | + 01:09 |
| 103 | Caspar Schellekens | NLD | KTM | – | 9:54:02 | + 4:07:56 | + 08:36 |
| 104 | Sergio Miguel Petrone | ARG | YAMAHA | – | 9:54:34 | + 4:08:28 | + 00:32 |
| 105 | Henno Van Bergeijk | NLD | HUSABERG | – | 9:58:15 | + 4:12:09 | + 03:41 |
| 106 | Rosa Romero Font | ESP | KTM | – | 13:01:09 | + 7:15:03 | + 3:02:54 |
| 107 | Antonio Gimeno García | ESP | KTM | 3h | 13:02:08 | + 7:16:02 | + 00:59 |
| 108 | Enrique Guzman | CHL | KTM | 3h | 13:02:39 | + 7:16:33 | + 00:31 |
| 109 | Diocleziano Toia | ITA | KTM | 3h | 13:07:09 | + 7:21:03 | + 04:30 |
| 110 | Maciej Berdysz | POL | HONDA | 3h | 13:12:16 | + 7:26:10 | + 05:07 |
| 111 | Roberto Gajdosech | ARG | YAMAHA | 3h | 13:12:42 | + 7:26:36 | + 00:26 |
| 112 | Herve Theuriot | FRA | KTM | 3h | 13:12:52 | + 7:26:46 | + 00:10 |
| 113 | Matteo Casuccio | ITA | GASGAS | 3h | 13:13:27 | + 7:27:21 | + 00:35 |
| 114 | Marc Pedrola | ESP | YAMAHA | 3h | 13:14:22 | + 7:28:16 | + 00:55 |
| 115 | Thierry Domenach | FRA | KTM | 3h | 13:16:33 | + 7:30:27 | + 02:11 |
| 116 | Boldbaatar Damdinkhorloo | MNG | KTM | 3h | 13:19:11 | + 7:33:05 | + 02:38 |
| 117 | Edouard Leconte | FRA | YAMAHA | 3h | 13:19:29 | + 7:33:23 | + 00:18 |
| 118 | Mikael Berglund | SWE | KTM | 3h | 13:19:31 | + 7:33:25 | + 00:02 |
| 119 | Carlo Vellutino | PER | KTM | 3h | 13:20:20 | + 7:34:14 | + 00:49 |
| 120 | Charles Cuypers | FRA | KTM | 3h | 13:23:35 | + 7:37:29 | + 03:15 |
| 121 | Leon Amespil | ARG | YAMAHA | 3h | 13:31:17 | + 7:45:11 | + 07:42 |
| 122 | Carlos Fernandez | ESP | KTM | 3h | 13:32:10 | + 7:46:04 | + 00:53 |
| 123 | Domingo Fernandez Mendez | ESP | KTM | 3h | 13:33:11 | + 7:47:05 | + 01:01 |
| 124 | Jeroen Van Daele | NLD | HONDA | 3h | 13:36:32 | + 7:50:26 | + 03:21 |
| 125 | Francesco Catanese | ITA | YAMAHA | 3h | 13:36:50 | + 7:50:44 | + 00:18 |
| 126 | Jan Roelf Bouwknegt | NZL | KTM | 3h | 13:40:33 | + 7:54:27 | + 03:43 |
| 127 | Axel Heilenkotter | CHL | HUQSVARNA | 3h | 13:41:26 | + 7:55:20 | + 00:53 |
| 128 | Mariano Kazmierski | PER | KTM | 3h | 13:43:00 | + 7:56:54 | + 01:34 |
| 129 | Clayton Jacobsen | AUS | KTM | 3h | 13:44:55 | + 7:58:49 | + 01:55 |
| 130 | Humphrey Sennvanbasel | NLD | KTM | 3h | 13:49:45 | + 8:03:39 | + 04:50 |
| 131 | Erik Klomp | NLD | HONDA | 3h | 14:04:22 | + 8:18:16 | + 14:37 |
| 132 | Pierre Cherpin | FRA | KTM | 3h | 14:11:50 | + 8:25:44 | + 07:28 |
| 133 | Christopher Cork | GBR | HUSQVARNA | 3h | 14:12:41 | + 8:26:35 | + 00:51 |
| 134 | Yvan Reynaud | FRA | HONDA | 3h | 14:13:18 | + 8:27:12 | + 00:37 |
| 135 | Alain Delaunay | FRA | HONDA | 3h | 14:13:45 | + 8:27:39 | + 00:27 |
| 136 | Charles Monier | FRA | KTM | 3h | 14:13:49 | + 8:27:43 | + 00:04 |
| 137 | Daniel Oliveras Carreras | ESP | GASGAS | 3h | 14:14:18 | + 8:28:12 | + 00:29 |
| 138 | Carlos Gracida Garza | MEX | KTM | 3h | 14:15:37 | + 8:29:31 | + 01:19 |
| 139 | Anar Chinbataar | MNG | KTM | 3h | 14:17:15 | + 8:31:09 | + 01:38 |
| 140 | Carl Hagenblad | SWE | KTM | 3h | 14:17:24 | + 8:31:18 | + 00:09 |
| 141 | Guido Martinelli | ARG | KAWASAKI | 3h | 14:18:31 | + 8:32:25 | + 01:07 |
| 142 | Diego Martin Penalva | ARG | YAMAHA | 3h | 14:24:13 | + 8:38:07 | + 05:42 |
| 143 | Juan Suarez Zapata | ARG | KAWASAKI | 3h | 14:49:50 | + 9:03:44 | + 25:37 |
| 144 | Selcuk Bektas | TUR | KTM | 3h | 15:00:10 | + 9:14:04 | + 10:20 |
| 145 | Antonio Narino | USA | HUSQVARNA | 3h | 15:05:33 | + 9:19:27 | + 05:23 |
| 146 | Sebastian Alberto Urquia | ARG | YAMAHA | 3h | 15:15:32 | + 9:29:26 | + 09:59 |
| 147 | Koray Ozkaplan | TUR | KTM | 3h | 15:51:03 | + 10:04:57 | + 35:31 |
| 148 | Zden?k Gottvald | CZE | HUSQVARNA | 3h | 19:02:50 | + 13:16:44 | + 3:11:47 |
