The French duo of Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret powered through the Kazan sand in the N° 100 Peugeot DKR 2008 to win stage one of 2016 Silk Way Rally Stéphane Peterhansel set best time on the opening 2km super-special stage of the Silk Way Rally, while Maarten Van Den Brink took the laurels in the truck category. The long and the short of it It was due east for the caravan leaving Moscow for Kazan. Stage one in was run in less than ideal conditions. Dark skies and drizzle reigned over the Tatarstan region and bivouac that set up camp at the ultra-modern Kazan Arena. Following the longest road section of the event at 849.85km came the shortest timed sector of the rally, the...
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