July 05, 2005

Cyril Despres wins the Orient Rally 05

Overall nothing changed for the first five. Cyril Despres rode an intelligent race, his only upset being a crash on the second day, to add the Rallye d'Orient to his list of victories.

Cyril Despres (1st overall) : « The result is very positive. Last year Richard Sainct and myself promised to race this event. I really enjoyed myself - the tracks, the navigation and the atmosphere were all that is best in rallye-raid. I am also very satisfied with my prototype KTM. Thanks to better fuel distribution, and the fact that it consumes less, it is much easier to throw around that the 660. Although it is 10 kph slower I think it is a good compromise.

Overall & final standing after 7 stages
1 DESPRES Cyril KTM SP +450 20h39’39 00h00’00 00h00’00
2 CASTEU David KTM SP +450 21h13’50 00h34’11 00h05’00
3 GAU Michel KTM SP +450 21h39’55 01h00’16 00h00’00
4 DE GAVARDO Carlo KTM SP 450 21h45’04 01h05’25 00h12’30
5 DABROWSKI Marek KTM SP +450 22h06’18 01h26’39 00h00’00
6 CZACHOR Jacek KTM M +450 22h18’16 01h38’37 00h00’00
7 PALMER Lee KTM SP +450 22h30’20 01h50’41 00h00’00
8 TIXADOR Gilles KTM PR 450 23h04’22 02h24’43 00h00’00
9 LICHTENSTEIGER Jacques KTM M +450 23h44’15 03h04’36 00h31’00
10 POLLI Oscar KTM M 450 23h47’50 03h08’11 00h00’00
11 ROBIN Dominique KTM M +450 24h08’32 03h28’53 00h15’00
12 BENEKE Christian KTM M +450 24h40’11 04h00’32 00h00’00