Dakar Rally Organisers scrubbed the stage for bike riders after Australian Andy Caldecott was killed in a crash on Monday.
Competitors held a minute’s silence after the morning briefing in Kiffa, Mauritania, in memory of the 41-year-old KTM rider. While the bike riders treated the day as a non-competitive liaison, the 333km 10th stage to Kayes in Mali went ahead as normal for the car drivers.Caldecott fell and suffered a fatal neck injury after 250km of the 599km ninth stage.He was an experienced desert rider.A four-times winner of the Australia Safari, he was competing in his third Dakar and had won the third stage of this year’s race.- Nampa-ReutersWhile the bike riders treated the day as a non-competitive liaison, the 333km 10th stage to Kayes in Mali went ahead as normal for the car drivers.Caldecott fell and suffered a fatal neck injury after 250km of the 599km ninth stage.He was an experienced desert rider.A four-times winner of the Australia Safari, he was competing in his third Dakar and had won the third stage of this year’s race.- Nampa-Reuters
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