Dakar Trucks, Stage 3: Kolomy quickest, Stacey keeps overall lead

The leading Tatra driver led the way at CP1 and CP2, where the running was eventually suspended - but he finds himself down in sixth overall as he was one of several drivers to receive sever time penalties after Monday.

Yesterday’s stage winner Hans Stacey fell only 17 seconds short of Kolomy’s time, which allowed him to narrowly maintain the lead.

The Dutchman was followed by Federico Villagra and Pieter Versluis, the duo remaining close to the leader in the overall classification as well - and having both been among the few drivers to avoid penalties.

Ton van Genugten ended up as fifth-fastest ahead of Belarusian Siarhei Viazovich, 2012 champion Gerard de Rooy and KM Racing Team’s Martin Macik.

Russian frontrunner team Kamaz suffered a shockingly difficult day with Eduard Nikolaev ending up as their top driver in 16th.

Standings after Stage 3

Pos.	No.	Driver	Truck	Time/Gap
1	506	Hans Stacey Serge Bruynkens Jan van der Vaet	MAN	6h03m15s
2	510	Pieter Versluis Marcel Pronk Artur Klein	MAN	26s
3	514	Federico Villagra Jorge Perez Companc Andres Memi	IVECO	1m21s
4	501	Gerard de Rooy Moises Torrallardona Darek Rodewald	IVECO	6m02s
5	516	Tom van Genugten Anton van Limpt Peter van Eerd	IVECO	8m27s
6	505	Martin Kolomy David Kilian Rene Kilian	Tatra	10m22s
7	503	Ales Loprais Ferran Marco Alcayna Bernard der Kinderen	IVECO	10m41s
8	502	Eduard Nikolaev Evgeny Yakovlev Vladimir Rybakov	Kamaz	15m27s
9	529	Pascal de Baar Martin Roesink Wouter de Graaff	Renault	15m54s
10	507	Siarhei Viazovich Pavel Haranin Andrei Zhyhulin	MAZ	19m37s