Fernando Alonso is slowly but surely getting to grips with the specifics of rally-raid racing, the Spaniard achieving on Monday his best performance to date in the 2020 Dakar. The day's stage involved a 474km loop around Wadi Al Dawasir, but the atmosphere on site on Monday was dimmed by a sense of mourning following the tragic death on Sunday of Portuguese biker Paulo Gonçlaves whose team retired from the grueling event. From mountains landscapes to canyons and a 43km foot-to-the-floor straight, the topography rewarded Mathieu Serradori on-board his South African-built Century CR6 buggy, the Frenchman winning his maiden Dakar stage with a four-minute cushion over Alonso and navigator...
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