India, Jan. 15 -- The seventh stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally gave competitors the first taste of a loop stage which started and ended at San Juan de Marcona. While the stage start was delayed due to extremely foggy conditions during wee hours of the morning, the weather provided no respite later as well since the conditions changed to windy and dusty. Continuing their cautious run, the stage did not cause any setbacks for Hero MotorSports as both Oriol Mena and Joaquim Rodrigues (JRod) were able to cross the finish line on an incident-free day for them.
In fact, JRod became the fastest pilot for an Indian team for the day as he finished the stage in 11th. This is his best stage finish in the 2019 Dakar yet. JRod achieved this result despite...