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Coma wins 3rd Sealine Rally in Qatar

Apr 25, 2015


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COMA INCREASES LEAD IN FIM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Marc Coma on Friday rode to victory in the fourth edition of the highly competitive Sealine Rally in Qatar. The rally was the second round of the 2015 FIM World Cross Countries Rally Championship and as Coma also won the opening round, he has now extended his points lead.

Marc Coma, a Red Bull athlete: “We finally finished the rally! It was hard. We tried to be consistent and not make the slightest mistake because this rally is so intense it is impossible to recover if you make a mistake. It was a very hard fought win and the team did a great job. We started the year very well, and we are still on the right way. Now it is time to enjoy this beautiful moment and then begin to work ahead of the next race in Sardinia.”

Coma won ahead of his old rivals Joan Barreda and Paolo Goncalves, who were followed by Coma’s teammate Jordi Viladoms (ESP, KTM) in fourth, Pablo Quintanilla (Chile, KTM), Sam Sunderland (GBR, KTM) and Matthias Walkner (AUT, KTM). Eight of the top ten finishers were on the KTM 450 RALLY. The remaining Red Bull KTM Factory rider, Ruben Faria of Portugal retired after Stage One with a wrist injury.

Coma, a multi Dakar Rally winner started the final stage with just under eight minutes overall lead. He rode a careful final stage to be third in the daily stage standings and had a four-minute 40 overall lead over Barreda.

Riders tackled 1926.76 km over the five days, all of which except 144.75 km were under the clock. Unlike the Desert Challenge that opened the season several weeks ago and features classic dune racing, the Sealine Rally is made up of a lot of stony piste and very tricky navigation.

Coma won the opening stage and concentrated on delivering a careful tactical race on the other four days. Austria’s Matthias Walkner, the team rookie was the stage winner on Day Two. He said he had benefited from riding together with Viladoms, like Coma, a rider with rich international experience. Walkner did lose more than an hour the following day but continues to show great promise as he comes to terms with international competition and the navigation aspect.

Riders generally agreed that the conditions were brutal and Sunderland remarked after the longest stage on Thursday that it was”… 400 km of stones and navigation.

The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team will next compete at Round Four of the championship, the Sardegna Rally on the Italian island of Sardinia from June 6-11. This rally is entirely different in nature of terrain and offers riders conditions more akin to enduro racing.

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KTM Results
Sealine Rally Qatar
Round 2 of the 2015 FIM World Cross Countries Rally Championship
Stage Five – 391.69 km of which 381.89 as timed special
Final Stage Results – provisional
1, Joan Barreda, ESP, Honda 4 hours 7:51
2, Paolo Goncalves, POR, Honda at 1.21
3, Marc Coma, ESP, KTM at 3:17 (Overall winner)
4, Jordi Viladoms, ESP, KTM at 5:01
5, Sam Sunderland, GBR, KTM at 7.24
6, Pablo Quintanilla CHI, KTM at 9.02
7, Matthias Walkner, AUT, KTM at 27:53.00
8. Armand Monleon, ESP, KTM at 34:55.00
9, Mohamed Al Balooshi, UAE, KTM at 44:39.00

Overall after final Dtage 5
1, Coma, 19 hours 56.48
2, Barreda, at 4.40
3, Goncalves, at 6.33
4, Viladoms, at 17.59
5, Quintanilla, at 18:00
6, Sunderland, at 21:10
7, Walkner, at 1:40.18
8, Monleon, 2:42.33
9,Jakub Piatek, POL, KTM, 3:55.00


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