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MKR celebrates a golden hat trick at the Libya Rally!

21.4.2016

MKR celebrates a golden hat trick at the Libya Rally! Fantastic! Already a third win in the past three stages of the Libya Rally has been collected by the MKR Technology truck. The crew including a mechanic from Roudnice dominated in the penultimate sixth stage, moving to second place in the overall ranking. Therefore, the team have boosted their chances of overall victory. Thus the last stage is going to decide everything.

“Perhaps we have used up our share of bad luck at the beginning, as we needlessly lost too much time. However, we knew that it was in our power to make up for it and we’ve been working hard to do exactly that. Right now it’s make or break. We need the fortune on our side, because the final result really depends on it. As for technology, I’m excited, everything we’ve been testing has a positive effect, so a great result would only underscore our work,“ commented the high-spirited MKR Technology’s boss Mario Kress. 

The truck number 501, constructed for the Dutch Mammoet Rallysport team and piloted by Martin van den Brink, literally swept through the penultimate sixth episode, completing a golden hat trick with a third stage victory in a row. “It was a fantastic day. The first part in the dunes was quite technical, but we passed it with flying colours. The second part looked like a WRC race. Martin was having a great time, but we didn’t know that we were actually moving close towards the leading truck,“ confessed the crew mechanic Daniel Kozlovský from Roudnice nad Labem. 

The Dutch-Czech crew managed to reduce the leader Igor Bouwense’s margin by forty-five minutes, moving up to the second place overall. At the moment, they have twenty-two and half minutes to catch up with the leader. This is going to make the final seventh stage from Matarka to Saidia, which includes a special section of more than two hundred kilometres, pretty exciting. 

Results Truck – Stage 6 (Merzouga - Matarka, 194 km): 
1. van den Brink (Renault) 2:48:33 
2. Schoones (DAF) +21:32 
3. Bouwens (Iveco) +32:14 
4. Kretz (MAN) +48:22 
5. Verheyden (DAF) +1:04:32 
 
General: 
1. Bouwens (Iveco) 28:09:21 
2. van den Brink (Renault) +22:30 
3. Schoones (DAF) +1:21:00 
4. Kretz (MAN) +3:12:17 
5. Verheyden (DAF) +3:22:46


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