SUMMARY - Stage 1 : Coma, alone in the Pampa, BMWs all over the place

Whilst Marc Comas victory was foreseeable for the first stage, the magnitude of his success and the catastrophes experienced by other bike race favorites put paid to most of the predictions. Despres and Casteu may have already seen their hopes for overall Dakar victory evaporate. In the car race, BMW met both with success, for Nasser Al Attiyah, and disappointment, with Guerlain Chicherits accident, after he started out of the blocks a bit too ambitiously.

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Sports

Tags:

• dakar
• rally
• sport
• coma
• pampa
• bmw
• Casteu
• Chicherit
• Al
• Attiyah