Oriol Mena, CS Santosh continue steady performance for Hero MotoSports in stage 2 race

Desafio Inca: Oriol Mena and CS Santosh continued their good run to finish the stage 2 safely to get some more laps and valuable experience under their belt. Both Oriol and Santosh kept it safe and steady to finish the stage in the 10th and 17th positions respectively.

Joaquim Rodrigues too started well and settled into a nice rhythm before a minor fall towards the end of the first lap of stage 2. He suffered a twist in his back and minor damage to the bike, but managed to bring the bike to the end of the lap 1. The team management decided to not take any risks, and decided to opt out of lap 2 for JRod. In fact few other top riders also opted out of the lap 2 of stage 1 as well, in order to conserve themselves for the Dakar. JRod stands at 21st place in the stage 2 rankings.

Second stage was again predominantly dunes and fesh-fesh combined with some tough navigation on the offer throughout the 2 laps making up the 350 kms of the stage.

For Hero MotoSports Team Rally, and as for most of the teams, the main objective remains the learning and exposure to Peruvian terrains in view of the Dakar 2019. With that in mind, they will head into the final stage on Sunday with a relatively shorter run of 200kms to bring the last rally before the Dakar into the books.