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something hard; it was in a river
bed and I'm sure as anything
it would have been a rock,"
Price said on his personal
website. "Some people came
running over and helped me
and checked if I was alright
and I remember seeing Paulo
Goncalves above me doing the
same.
"I'm not too sure how the
long the helicopter took to get
me but I knew I broke my leg
by then. It started to get painful
and my leg wouldn't move, so
it was a helicopter ride back to
the stage base, an airplane ride
back to La Paz and then into an
ambulance, but the road was so
rough I needed to get strapped
in and have another injection
and that's all I remember. This is
only a small hurdle in the road as
a broken leg, so we will go again
and it'll be all good."
Austria's Matthias Walkner
moved into a solid fifth for Red
Bull KTM after winning stage
four, while Sunderland extended
his lead with a win on stage
five. Stage six on January 7 was
cancelled due to torrential rain,
and followed by a rest day, riders
headed into stage 7 on January
9, which was shortened due to
more heavy rain in the southern
Bolivia region.
Team Honda HRC's refuel-
ing blunder on stage four left
them at a severe disadvantage
that they are still struggling to
overcome. Stage seven was a
good showing for the boys in
red, with Brabec and Goncalves
going one-two in the first half of
the two-day marathon stage. As
it stands, Goncalves is one hour,
five minutes behind the leader,
Sunderland, with Barreda a fur-
ther nine minutes back, the HRC
riders in eighth and ninth overall,
respectively.
"We will keep battling on to
try and make up the one-hour
sanction that we received," Gon-
calves said. "There is still a long
way to go." CN
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
HONDA
HRC
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
KTM/MARCIN
KIN
HRC's Ricky
Brabec
celebrated
his first Dakar
stage win on
stage seven.
