RACE SUMMARY

Hero MotoSports Team Rally bounced back strongly in the Stage 3 of the Rally du Maroc, with Nacho Cornejo putting behind yesterday’s setback to secure his first podium finish for the team with 3rd place finish and another strong stage run from Mike, finishing outside of a podium position for the first time in 4th place in the Rally 2 category.

After stage 3, Mike finds himself firmly placed in the 2nd position in Rally 2 category and 8th overall, while Nacho moves up by 2 places to enter back into the top 10 in the 9th place in the overall rankings and maintaining his 7th place in the Rally GP.

For Shlok, it was another tough outing in the rally as he met with a crash around 130 km mark which brought his run in the stage 3 to a premature halt. As per the information received at the time of filing this report, he was doing fine and was on his back to the bivouac to reunite with the team.

Stage 3 of the rally was an entirely different story. It was a much faster terrain with more sandy tracks and the longest selective section of the rally with 360 kms to be done on the clock. The stage offered all sorts of terrain - fast tracks across plateaus, slow and rough sections that were extremely uneven, valleys, oueds, camel grass and, the dunes of Merzouga with added navigational challenges to test the mettle of the riders.