Saturday 7 October
Stage 2 : Erfoud - Erfoud
Liaison: 14.18 km - Special Stage: 364.50 km - Liaison: 10.26 km - Total: 388.94km
Heavy rains on Monday, after patrol car went through the stage, forced organisers to suspend the special stage on Saturday as several local oueds could not be crossed by bikes.
Joan Pedrero (Sherco) took reasonnable amount of risks to cross the first one as several other riders stopped. But he later surrendered.
Leader Pablo Quintanilla (Husqvarna) lost time, Sam Sunderland (KTM) culd not start again and Paulo Gonçalves (Honda) injured his hand following a crash.
Race has been neutralised.
Judith Tomaselli