Time lost to navigation and punctures has effectively ruled out Iveco Petronas driver Gerard de Rooy from taking back-to-back Dakar wins in the truck category. De Rooy was within two and a half minutes of Kamaz pair Dmitry Sotnikov and Eduard Nikolaev in the fight for the general classification lead, but had a tough time in Thursday's Chilecito–San Juan stage, losing ground to the Russian marque. “When the day starts off in a bad way, there's usually no way to make it all right,” said De Rooy's co-driver Moises Torrallardona. “We got lost looking for a waypoint and we were driving around, trying to find it, losing about 10 minutes. “We were back on the correct route, trying to...
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