The 4th leg of this year's edition of Rally dos Sertões had a 570km total distance, taking the participants from São Miguel do Araguaia/GO e Porto Nacional/TO. Included in this leg was the 4th stage of the rally, with 275km fast and dusty kilometers.
In the cars Cristian Baumgart/Beco Andreotti were once again the fastest. The Ford Ranger pair needed 2h48min23s reach the end of the stage. Closely behind finished Lucas Moraes/Kaique Bentivoglio also in Ford Ranger X Rally losing only 1m08s. In third place of this stage finished Guiga Spinelli/Yousseff Haddad (L200 Triton Sport Racing)
Overall Baumgart gained some time and has now 6min56s advantage over Spinelli. Marcos Baumgart is actually third, more than 20 minutes behind is brother Cristian.
Bruno Varela continues to lead the SSV race despite having finished second on the 4th stage of the Race. Third placed Gabriel Varela was the winner of the stage and got himself a little bit closer to the second place now occupied by Gregório Caselani. Edu Piano, most know for his truck racing career moved for the SSV category, and on yesterday's stage finished in third place.
In the motorbikes Tunico Maciel (Honda) scored another victory finishing the stage in 2h54m54s. Right behind Maciel in second place finished Gregório Caselani (Honda) and in third finished Jean Azevedo (Honda). Tunico Maceil keeps making is race lead stronger each day, and has now near 7 minutes advantage over second placed Caselani. The seven times winner of Sertoes Rally Jean Azevedo is in third place, with more than 20 minutes of distance bettwen himself and the race leader.
On the Quads, Marcelo Medeiros resumed the victory sequence and got another top result for his personal account, making is race lead stronger. Wescley Dutra finished second and Milton Martens third.
After the 4th stage not much have changed on the front of the race on all categories. As a curiosity, it looks like each category is dominated by only one brand, with the car being the "relative" exception, but, on the top3, 2 cars are Ford Rangers. The SSV is dominated by Can-Am, Motorbikes by Honda and finally the quads that have one all Yamaha Podium.
4th Stage results
CARS
1) #301 Cristian Baumgart/Beco Andreotti, T1-Codasur, Ford Ranger X Rally, 2h48m23s
2) #323 Lucas Moraes/Kaique Bentivoglio, T1 Codasur, Ford Ranger X Rally, 2h49m31s
3) #302 Guilherme Spinelli/Youssef Haddad, T1-Codasur, L200 Triton Sport Racing, 2h50m09s
UTVs (SSV/SxS)
1) #203 Gabriel Varela/ Eduardo Shiga, Pro Elite, Can-Am X3, 03h03m03s
2) #225 Bruno Varela/Gustavo Bortolanza, Pro Elite, Can-Am X3, 03s04m35s
3) #208 Edu Piano/Solon Mendes, Over, Can-Am X3, 03s06m13s
MOTOS
1) #1 Tunico Maciel, Production Aberta, Honda CRF 450RX, 2h54m54s
2) #5 Gregório Caselani, Super Production, Honda CRF 450RX, 2h57m09s
3) #3 Jean Azevedo, Super Production, Honda CRF 450RX, 2h57m09s
QUADs
1) #102 Marcelo Medeiros, Yamaha YFM 700R, Taguatur Racing, 3h19m33s
2) #101 Wescley Dutra, Yamaha Raptor, 3h25m42s
3) #107 Milton Martens, Yamaha Protótipo, 3h29m07s
Overall after 4th stage:
CARS
1) #301 Cristian Baumgart/Beco Andreotti, T1-Codasur, Ford Ranger X Rally, 2h48m23s
2) #323 Lucas Moraes/Kaique Bentivoglio, T1 Codasur, Ford Ranger X Rally, 2h49m31s
3) #302 Guilherme Spinelli/Youssef Haddad, T1-Codasur, L200 Triton Sport Racing, 2h50m09s
UTVs (SSV/SxS)
1) #225 Bruno Varela/Gustavo Bortolanza, Pro Elite, Can-Am X3, 16h40m30s
2) #202 Denisio do Nascimento/Idali Bosse, Pro Elite, Can-Am X3, 16h48m58s
3) #203 Gabriel Varela/Eduardo Shiga, Pro Elite, Can-Am X3, 16h55m28s
MOTOS
1) #1 Tunico Maciel, Production Aberta, Honda CRF 450RX, 17h57m54s
2) #5 Gregório Caselani, Super Production, Honda CRF 450RX, 18h05m34s
3) #3 Jean Azevedo, Super Production, Honda CRF 450RX, 18h17m58s
QUADS
1) #102 - Marcelo Medeiros, Taguatur Racing Team, 20h45m08s
2) #101 - Wescley Dutra, Girão Racing, 22h05m44s
3) #107 - Milton Martens, Martens Rally Team, 22h18m08s
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Photo X-Rally/Fotop
