Cooking gas and dried drivers – Telegraaf.nl

SAN JUAN –

Motorcycle Racer Robert van Pelt is out of the Dakar Rally. Temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius, the Yamaha rider forced to throw in the towel during the second stage to San Juan. The young participant last year’s ranking of the Malle Moto (box riders without assistance) won for hours standing in the sun next to his machine and had to be transported by helicopter to the bivouac

Participants in the Dakar Rally flee the burning sun. Photo: Reuters

The stranded Robert van Pelt on archival image Photo: Marcel Houben / Rally Maniacs

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By the! extreme heat was the gasoline in his Yamaha to boil, so he was forced to stop several times. When he subsequently in the heavy fesh-fesh was came several times to attack and are also water, the pipe became empty when the driver from Ridderkerk. He pulled his distress (balise) and waited for the helicopter.

“I have hours pampus located there before the helicopter arrived. I called the organization every ten minutes to pick me up. I was really worried that I would not make it. It was scary. On cold you can wear, it does not heat up. There was no shade and I had no water. It was a battlefield. Unfortunately, I am also there with, “Van Pelt said, for whom neutralization by the organization of a part of the special came too late.

Infusion

Van Pelt ended up in a tent middle of the desert on a drip. “The tent was full of guys who were dehydrated and overheated. It was a battlefield and unfortunately I was there too. The organization had the game to halt much earlier, because it was too hot and too heavy, “said the Dutchman, who will start no longer in the third stage.

Of the five adventurous Dutch participating in the infamous Dakar rally for the BAS team, only drove Jan van Gerven the 518 kilometer long stage from. Caspar and Sjors van Heertum, Caspar Schellekens and Bastiaan Nijen Twilhaar had to interrupt their journey on the orders of the stewards. “It was in terms of heat similar to stage five of last year,” knew Nijen Twilhaar. “When there is a deceased motorcyclist. That the organization wanted now occur naturally. “

Cooking petrol

Jasper Riezebos also belonged to the bikers who was removed prematurely from the trial. “I heard that last hundred kilometers was hell. That was it before even though, in the fesh-fesh “said the motocross rider from Fairfax. The motorcyclists had great difficulty to plow through that fine drifting sand. “You do not know what you’re going through. It was really dangerous. On the last stretch was so hot that the fuel in the tank began to bubble. I’ve never seen so hot. I heard it constantly bubbling. “

In the first stage, Richard the Great was the first non-starter in the engines with mechanical problems. When the trucks drove the team Saint-Fons Bob at Harkel in a ditch and gave the

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