The KTM Factory Rally riders got down to some serious desert racing on Sunday with the opening leg of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, the first round of the 2014 World Cross Country Rallies Championship.
Factory Team rookie Sam Sunderland of Britain was the fastest home in the opening stage of 290 km, shadowed by 4- times Dakar winner Marc Coma (Spain) just 34 seconds behind in second place. Jordi Viladoms of Spain and KTM supported rider Jakub Przygonski (Poland) came in at fifth and sixth, 11:12 and 15:06 minutes off the pace set by Britain’s Sunderland. Sunderland and Coma are 1-2 in the overall standings after Leg One and Saturday’s prologue.
The KTM Factory Racing team are competing on the 2014 KTM 450 RALLY, the machine on which Coma took his fourth Dakar victory in January and KTM thirteenth...
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