Dakar 97 - Friday, January 10 Stage 7 Placings

 PARIS, Jan 10 (Reuter) - Leading placings in the 381-km
seventh stage of the Dakar-Agades-Dakar rally from Menaka to
Tahoua on Friday:

    Cars:
    Stage placings:

 1. Jean-Pierre Fontenay (France) Mitsubishi 3 hours 20 minutes 31 seconds
 2. Kenjiro Shinozuka (Japan) Mitsubishi    2:09 behind
 3. Bruno Saby (France) Mitsubishi                 3:07
 4. Jutta Kleinschmidt (Germany) Buggy            20:47
 5. Hiroshi Masuoka (Japan) Mitsubishi            26:11
 6. Pornsawan Siriwatanakun (Thailand) Mitsubishi 29:13
 7. Jean-Pierre Strugo (France) Mitsubishi        30:16
 8. Salvador Servia (Spain) Nissan                30:28
 9. Maurizio Traglio (Italy) Nissan               33:26
10. Duarte Guedes (Portugal) Nissan               36:59

    Overall standings:

 1. Shinozuka                                  30:35:36
 2. Fontenay                          21 seconds behind
 3. Saby                                           5:14
 4. Masuoka                                     1:49:25
 5. Servia                                      3:22:11
 6. Kleinschmidt                                3:57:30
 7. Traglio                                     4:02:39
 8. Strugo                                      4:12:00
 9. Siriwatanakun                               4:50:57
10. Edoardo Argazzi (Italy) Nissan              5:35:15

    Motorcycles:
    Stage placings:

 1. Carlos Sotelo (Spain) Cagiva 3 hours 58 minutes 15 seconds
 2. David Castera (France) Yamaha                  3:03
 3. Thierry Magnaldi (France) KTM                  3:17
 4. Oscar Gallardo (Spain) Cagiva                  4:01
 5. Stephane Peterhansel (France) Yamaha           4:57
 6. Joan Roma (Spain) KTM                          5:17
 7. Jimmy Lewis (U.S.) KTM                         5:19
 8. Dirk von Zitzewitz (Austria) KTM               9:21
 9. Jordi Arcarons (Spain) KTM                    10:17
10. Guido Maletti (Italy) Kawasaki                13:43

    Overall standings:

 1. Peterhansel          32 hours 23 minutes 03 seconds
 2. Arcarons                             1:20:49 behind
 3. Gallardo                                    2:05:17
 4. Lewis                                       2:15:46
 5. Castera                                     2:17:34
 6. Von Zitzewitz                               2:57:44
 7. Maletti                                     3:43:21
 8. Jurgen Mayer (Germany) KTM                  4:01:06
 9. Norbert Schilcher (Germany) KTM             4:19:08
10. Fernando Gil (Spain) KTM                    4:28:47