Worth elevates to world rally lead with third in Abu Dhabi


Information 6 Mar 2023


Worth elevates to world rally lead with third in Abu Dhabi

Closing stage win lands Australian on rostrum at spherical two of 2023 season.

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Third-overall on the 2023 Abu Dhabi Desert Problem has elevated Crimson Bull KTM Manufacturing unit Racing’s Toby Worth into the lead of the World Rally-Raid Championship, the Australian ending spherical two on a excessive with victory within the ultimate stage.

Worth entered the final day of the Abu Dhabi Desert Problem P6 within the classification, with a scientific efficiency from the off-road icon in stage 5 seeing him swiftly climb the standings, ending simply over 5 minutes shy of occasion winner Adrien Van Beveren.

“I needed to push actually exhausting in the present day,” Worth recalled. “Opening on the lengthy day 4 actually knocked me again within the general such have been the situations. I knew my solely selection in the present day was to push exhausting, and so I went as exhausting as I may probably go for the entire 206 kilometres!

“To solely simply make the rostrum by two seconds is loopy. It exhibits the extent of the riders for the time being in rally, with the outcomes typically coming all the way down to seconds and never minutes – I feel that’s actually good for the championship. Lastly, the bike and the entire crew have been nice right here in Abu Dhabi, working so exhausting to present us the instruments we’d like. There’s a bit of little bit of a niche now however then it’s on to Mexico for the subsequent spherical.”

Weeks earlier, Worth completed second within the coveted Dakar Rally and now leads the 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship by 4 factors forward of Van Beveren, with the third spherical of the sequence, the Sonora Rally in Mexico, happening from 22-28 April.

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