Petronas Iveco driver Gerard de Rooy's quest for a third Dakar Rally victory took a hit on Tuesday as the Dutchman once again fell foul of a puncture. De Rooy dropped down from first overall to third during the shortened Uyuni-Sa;ta stage, the timed section of which was cut due to adverse weather conditions from 492km to 174km. The puncture struck with a quarter of a stage to go, forcing de Rooy to forfeit seven minutes - a less dramatic time loss than the half an hour he had to give up to similar problems in first week's Tucuman-Jujuy test. "I lost more than seven minutes for a tyre problem," de Rooy explained at stage end. "I told [teammate] Ton van Genugten to push...
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