Buggyra的车手们在近500公里长的赛段上忙的不可开交。尽管他在一开始就帮助一辆

Buggyra drivers had their hands full in almost a 500-kilometre-long stage. Martin Šoltys achieved the best 

卡玛兹卡车。Martin仍然保持着目前最好成绩，在卡车组别中排第七名，现在他的总排

result, taking 7th place in the Trucks category, even despite he had to help pull oneof the Kamaz trucks at 

名上升了一位。

the beginning.But he still managed to maintain current position, now he has moved up by one position in the overall standings. 

达喀尔拉力赛第二赛段全场685公里（从Bisha到Wadi Ad-Dawasir），其中常规路段228公里，特殊路段457公里，这一赛段大部分被沙丘所覆盖。

Martin的排名正在慢慢上升，今天他在和同队队友Casale争斗。“刚开始的时候我们去

Martin Šoltys is slowly improving and today, he was battling his teammate Casale.“At the beginning, we were

帮助一辆卡玛兹，所以我们浪费了一些时间。这一赛段为沙丘路段，期间我们一直落后

helping to pull a Kamaz，so we lost some time there.The stage was switching between pistes and dunes,

于Ignacio，但我们很难超越他们。当我们好不容易超过他们后，我们导航出了错误，

and it was the dunes where we always got behind Ignacio,but we lacked the speed to get ahead.And then he

于是他又超了过去。在那之后我们又追上了他并结束了这一赛段。这是一个很棒的赛

always pulled away again.When we finally got ahead of him, we made a navigational error,  so he got back 

段，但是仍有很多人在我们前面。”Martin说到，他目前处于整体第八位。

ahead of us. After that, we caught up him with again and finished like that. It was a good stage, but there’s still a lot ahead of us,” said the Šoltys, who is currently 8th in the overall standings.

在昨天的第六名后，Ignacio取得了一个不错的成果。“太好了，我们没有出现任何问

After yesterday’s 6th place, Ignacio Casale took another solid result.“It was great, we had no issues at all.

题，这个赛段节奏非常快，我很喜欢。不得不说我越来越习惯卡车了。也许我们比自动

It was a very fast stage, but I enjoyed it. I have to say, that I’m getting used to the truck more and more.

挡的卡车慢一点，但是我并不介意。赛段刚开始的时候我们在其中一个沙丘犯了一个错

Maybe we were slightly slower than the trucks with an automatic gearbox,but we don’t mind. I just made an 

误，但在那之后，一切都很顺利了。”兴奋的Ignacio在获得了第八名后说到。他目前整

error at the  beginning at one of the dunes,but after that, it was faultless,” said excited Ignacio Casale after

场比赛中排名第七。

finishing in 8th position. He is currently in 7th place in the overall standings.

另一方面，昨天排名第二的Josef跟刹车一直在较劲。刹车的问题使他花费了很多时间

On the other hand, Josef Macháček, who was in 2nd place yesterday, struggled with brakes. That issue cost 

并导致这位达喀尔传奇车手只获得了第12名，在轻量级越野级别中下降到第五名。

him a lot of time and the Dakar legend finished only in 12th place, dropping to 5th position in the overall 

“在100公里处，当我们进入加油区的时候，我们发现半轴上有一个裂口。我决定只加点

standings in the lightweight prototypes category.“At 100 kilometers, when we got into a refueling zone,we 

润滑油而不去更换半轴。但还要继续行驶200公里，我们刹车系统完全失效，两个半轴

discovered a torn cuff on a half-axle.I decided just to add some grease and not to change it.But with just 200 

都干了。所以我们放慢了速度，这样才能确保我们能活着完成比赛。”Josef说到。

kilometers to go, we lost brakes completely,  and both half-axles were dry. So, we just took it easy to make sure we survive,” said the experienced driver. 

 Tomas Enge和他的队员在第二赛段也不走运。他不得不处理造成他们落后五小时的技

Tomáš Enge and his crew were out of luck in the second stage as well. He had to deal with technical 

术问题。“一开始我们很快。然后出了技术问题，我们不得不停下来。不幸的是，我们

difficulties which resulted in a loss of five hours. “In the beginning the pace was quick. Then, however, 

车灯一直开着导致电瓶亏电。幸运的是，附近遇到了一个当地人，他帮助我们让车辆重

technical issues arose and we had to stop. Unfortunately, we left the lights on and the battery died. Luckily, a 

新发动起来。我们损失是巨大的，我们晚上到达了沙丘，我以为我们要在那里睡一觉

local was nearby and we managed to get the car running with his help. The loss was huge, we made it to the

了，因为我们被困在其中一个沙丘，同时发动机一直在过热。我们设法让发动机冷却下

dunes at night, which was another experience for me. I thought that I will have to sleep there, as we got 

来，沿着轮胎印的方向尝试脱困，希望能尽快回到比赛中去”接近午夜时Enge说到。

stuck in one of them and the engine kept overheating. We managed to cool it off, checked the direction of thetraces and tried it. It was another adventure, but I hope to finally start competing,” said Enge close to midnight.

第三赛段全程403km，主办方说第三赛段将主要由沙丘组成，不会有太多的碎石路段。

The third stage will be 403 kilometers long and the organizers promise that there will be no more rocks. Tuesday should be all about sand and dunes.

本届赛事真正的好戏将逐步上演，毅力、耐心、稳定与实力在后半程的比拼中显得尤为重要。期待各位选手接下来的表现！