A drama for Stephane Peterhansel. On the second day is a new victory for the reigning Dakar winner already completely out of the picture. The Frenchman crashed in the first, real stage, causing his electric Audi to be heavily damaged. Rear axle broken In the prologue Peterhansel finished fourteenth. In the first stage things went well, because he was second behind leader Nasser Al-Attiyah of Toyota for a long time. The difference between the two was barely six seconds. But when Peterhansel drove over a winding rocky path, the Frenchman had an accident in which the rear axle of his car broke. Both Peterhansel and his co-driver Edouard Boulanger were unhurt in the crash. They did have to...
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