On 7 January, the 2022 Dakar Rally ended the 563-kilometer competition of the SS6 stage near the capital Riyadh, with the No. 220 Hanwei Mali group of the Hanwei Motorsport team finishing the race in 9th place, and the No. 273 Tianpo Du Xuan Charity Car Group also finishing the stage in 44th place, and the two cars and four drivers ended the first half of the race in perfect condition.
The special SS6 stage of 347.57 km consists of 26% sand, 62% dirt roads and 12% dunes.
The 25th hanwei mali car group of the 220th started, and finally won the 9th stage of the good result, and the race official also released the stage news with the title of "Han wei leading al-Attiyah" at the first time:
With more than 30 drivers now reaching the finish line, Han Wei was unexpectedly ahead of Nasser Al-Attiyah, who was driving Toyota, with a time of less than six minutes behind Orlando Terranova. Han has a proud Chinese driver's Best in Dakar: Tenth in 2020 and plans to repeat the feat last year, but couldn't get better due to mechanical failures. In 2022, with the help of the new navigator Marley, he is making new history with a firm belief, and this is what they are achieving at this moment! ”
Han Wei said after the race, today's track is very high-speed, the course change is also very fast, need to pay attention to the track, the difficulty is still very high, today's results are indeed unexpected, it is said that the top ten drivers have taken the wrong road, the pilot Marley is very powerful, did not waste time on the way, the entire stage play is relatively smooth, can have such a ranking is their own luck is better, because occupy a more favorable starting position.
No. 273 Tianpo Du Xuanyi also played a steady role in today's race, ending the first half of the race with a ranking of 44th place in the car group. After the race, Tian Po said that today's stage is still difficult and faster, because tomorrow is a rest day, and he does not want to make the team unable to get the necessary rest because of his own mistakes, so the overall opening is more conservative. Ranked 141st, he said that the smoke and dust on the track and the rampage of trucks are also challenges that have to be faced, although they have overtaken all the way, but they still have to be more cautious in the face of tracks that have been crushed by hundreds of cars, some places have deep ruts, and some places have to detour to re-choose the route. Stability is the mainstay, and successful completion has always been the primary goal of his first Dakar.
After the first half of the competition, No. 273 Tianpo Du Xuanyi ranked 38th in the auto group with a result of 7:51:36 behind the first place, and the No. 220 Han Wei Malley car group was affected by the 10-hour penalty and ranked 47th in the total car group with a result of 12:21:52 behind the first place.
Looking back at the first half of the race, Han Wei said that although he participated in the Dakar Rally for the fourth time, he was still only a middle school student, he still had a lot to learn, the gap between the drivers in front of him was still very large, he had to continue to learn from them, constantly shortening the gap in time, the first half had regrets, but there were losses and gains, lost some things, and also put down some baggage, because of their own mistakes and caused a bad consequence, but we were not discouraged, or to go to the race, the second half of the race, Will better cooperate with the pilot Marley and strive for better results.
On January 8th, the race will take a day off in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, where the team will conduct a more comprehensive inspection and maintenance of the car, and the drivers will also take advantage of this day to recover their strength and continue to strengthen for the tougher challenges that follow!