DANIEL SANDERS ONE DAY AWAY FROM SONORA RALLY VICTORY

BATTLING THROUGH A TOUGH PENULTIMATE DAY OF RACING CHUCKY CARRIES A NEAR SIX-MINUTE LEAD INTO TOMORROW’S FINAL STAGE



Daniel Sanders places fourth on Sonora Rally stage four
Challenging day of navigation as Chucky opens yet another stage
GASGAS RX 450F rider carries near six-minute advantage into final day

It was tough out there today. With more broken tracks and some of Wednesday’s route raced in reverse, leading out was by no means easy. But Chucky did an excellent job once again, making almost zero mistakes and clocking up over five minutes in bonuses to secure his highly commendable top-four stage result.

Now, one step away from winning the 2023 Sonora Rally, the final day of competition in Mexico will see Chucky take on a 139-kilometer special stage, the shortest of the event. 

Daniel Sanders: “Yeah, that was a pretty wild day. Obviously, I was the first rider out this morning, and I noticed that the road book had a kind of different style, there were a few notes that were a little strange for me. I kept cruising, found a mistake in the road book, the wrong cap. I went straight, managed to validate the waypoint before the fueling. Then there was a lot of tricky navigation for me out front. We rode over a fair number of tracks from previous days, but in reverse, as well as some new stuff. I made a big mistake at the end and lost three minutes or so, only about 10 kilometers from the finish. It’s a shorter day tomorrow, the final day of the event, so as I won’t be leading out in the morning, I hope I can have a good day.”

Download images from the 2023 Sonora Rally here.

Results Sonora Rally 2023 – stage 4 (provisional)
1. Toby Price (KTM) 2:33:21
2. Tosha Schareina (Honda) 2:33:44
3. Luciano Benavides (Husqvarna) 2:34:13
4. Daniel Sanders (GASGAS) 2:35:01

Provisional Standings – Sonora Rally 2023 (after stage 4)
1. Daniel Sanders (GASGAS) 9:47:08
2. Tosha Schareina (Honda) 9:52:50
3. Luciano Benavides (Husqvarna) 10:01:31