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at 07:25 on January 5th, 2008
A bit of background: Coma lost the lead (and himself) in the last Dakar rally:
[q
url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/world_rally/6278991.stm"]Marc
Coma, who was leading the motorcycle standings in the Dakar Rally,
crashed during Friday's 13th stage and is out of the race.
The Spaniard was leading the overall motorcycle standings by a comfortable 52 minutes with just two stages left.
Coma lost his bearings 34km into the 458km stage from to Mali to Senegal but crashed out taking a parallel route.[/q] Coma rides for KTM, whose reputation rests on adventure touring and rally riding; they're not as big in North America, but that's beginning to change.