WestX1000 brings us coverage from day four during Special Stage 3 of the 2020 Yokohama Sonora Rally.
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SS3: Sand, Speed and an Impending Storm
Racers Rode into the Darkness as They Tried to Secure Their Positions Halfway Through the Rally

Weather seems to be playing a bigger role in this race than expected. Even when gloom isn?t present ? even though it?s been gone for days ? the impact of inclement weather lingers like a slow healing gash, especially here, in a region so wild, the only one dressing wounds is Mother Nature. Special Stage Three offered a different sort of impending danger. More direct. A storm was coming, so the Yokohama Sonora Rally, presented by Method Race Wheels, had to triage. First, the competitors started the day a bit earlier to try and beat the rain between Caborca and the next bivouac in Puerto Peñasco, which almost worked. And those who still became caught in the wet were watched closely. Then, they decided to cut out the second section which would have edged the Sea of Cortez coastline after a multifaceted voyage through the Sonoran Desert. It would have been a beautiful sight, but nobody knew what was in store, so no one missed it. All they knew was that now the race finally reached the dunes?
The wind howled all day. It slid across your face like a pumice stone adding icing to the multilayered cake of obstacles. When vessels weren?t buried below rows of wiry trees and blooming Saguaro, they darted over featureless mound...