{"id":52623,"date":"2021-07-06T12:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T07:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/?p=52623"},"modified":"2021-07-06T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T07:22:35","slug":"gasgass-daniel-sanders-gets-ahead-in-stage-two-of-silk-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/gasgass-daniel-sanders-gets-ahead-in-stage-two-of-silk-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"GASGAS&#8217;s Daniel Sanders gets ahead in stage two of Silk Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">GASGAS Factory Racing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/gasgass-daniel-sanders-wins-stage-two-at-silk-way-rally\/\">Daniel Sanders<\/a> has claimed another impressive stage win at the Silk Way Rally following a cool and calculated ride on day four of the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Action<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the penultimate stage and the punishing marathon stages now completed, Sanders has advanced to fourth in the overall provisional classification with just one day of racing to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sanders rips to another rally world championship stage win.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Daniel\u2019s GASGAS RC 450F is running strong following the marathon stage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One day of racing now remains ahead of the Silk Way Rally finish line.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52629 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18568_daniel-sanders_silk-way-rally-2021-stage4_00777-scaled-595xh.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Quote<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Daniel Sanders:<\/span><\/strong><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u201cWith today\u2019s stage being the same as yesterday, there was less focus on navigation, but the same dangers remained, so that was the main thing to concentrate on today.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Some of the river crossings seemed to be a little deeper today, so it wasn\u2019t plain sailing.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Again, I felt good on the bike. It\u2019s worked great since the start, so it\u2019s good to know we have a good set-up, and I can just focus on my riding.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0The scenery was pretty epic on this stage, so I like that part of it, and with one day to go, we\u2019re in good shape. I\u2019m looking forward to tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With today\u2019s stage a repeat of stage three, Daniel was able to push his pace with a little less focus on navigation while keeping in mind the many dangers littered throughout the stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Riding with confidence aboard his GASGAS RC 450F, Daniel will now lead out on the final stage to complete the rally on a positive note after taking his second stage win of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The final day of racing at the revised Silk Way Rally takes place tomorrow. The fifth special event will be a re-run of stage two, where Daniel <a href=\"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/2021-dakar-rally-stage-eight\/\"><strong>claimed his<\/strong> <\/a>maiden FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship stage win just a few days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Results (provisional): Silk Way Rally 2021, stage 4<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">1. Daniel Sanders (GASGAS) 1:23:05<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">2. Skyler Howes (Husqvarna) 1:24:11<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">3. <a href=\"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/matthias-walkner-stands-fourth-in-2021-silk-way-rally\/\"><strong>Matthias Walkner<\/strong> <\/a>(KTM) 1:24:33<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Overall Provisional Classification (after stage 4)<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">1. Matthias Walkner (KTM) 5:13:57<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">2. Franco Caimi (Hero) 5:18:44<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">3. Skyler Howes (Husqvarna) 5:19:33<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">4. Daniel Sanders (GASGAS) 5:22:32<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":52631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22378],"tags":[22098,16482,23172],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52648,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52623\/revisions\/52648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}