Alpine skiing, descent: Ski racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has won the next round in a permanent duel with Marco Odermatt. The Norwegian won the first of the two downhill runs in Wengen on Friday, while his Swiss rival finished second, 0.19 seconds behind. In the Super-G the day before, it was exactly the other way around. Third on the Lauberhorn was Odermatt’s compatriot Beat Feuz (+0.30) on Friday.
The German speed men suffered a huge damper and missed the top 20. Romed Baumann and Josef Ferstl, who had impressed fourth and sixth in the Super-G, finished 27th and 33rd. Dominik Schwaiger, Simon Jocher and Andreas Sander came in 24th, 38th and 41st. On Saturday, a second, longer descent is on the program in Switzerland.
Football, third division: The game planned for Sunday by Eintracht Braunschweig at Viktoria Berlin has been canceled due to several corona cases at the hosts. The German Football Association announced on Friday. “Due to corona cases and the resulting quarantine situations, Viktoria Berlin currently has fewer than 16 eligible players available, which means that the minimum limit laid down in the paragraph has been fallen below,” said a message from the DFB. An alternative date is not fixed yet.
Motorsport, Formula 1: Mike Krack will succeed Otmar Szafnauer as team boss at Aston Martin and thus the supervisor of ex-world champion Sebastian Vettel. The Formula 1 racing team announced on Friday. Krack already knows Vettel from his time as an engineer at BMW-Sauber, in 2006 and 2007 the Heppenheimer was the team’s test driver. Most recently, Krack was Head of Motorsport at BMW.
Vettel’s new company car for the season beginning March 20 is due to be presented on February 10. “I have a lot of respect for his speed and skills and it will be fantastic to work with him again,” said Krack in a message via Vettel: “Lance Stroll is also a very fast and talented driver and I’m really looking forward to it working closely with him. ” Szafnauer had left Aston Martin the previous week. The 57-year-old was a confidante of Vettel, he was considered a key figure in the Heppenheimer’s commitment to the past season.
Motorsport, Rallye Dakar: Nasser Al-Attiyah celebrated a start-to-finish victory at this year’s Dakar Rally and won the off-road challenge for the fourth time. At the finish of the 44th edition on Friday in Jeddah, the 51-year-old from Qatar and his co-driver Mathieu Baumel in the Toyota had a lead of almost 28 minutes on the first pursuer. Second place in the overall car classification went to nine-time rally world champion Sébastien Loeb in the Prodrive BRX. Yazeed Al-Rajhi from Saudi Arabia drove in third place like Al-Attiyah in a Toyota. Dakar record winner Stéphane Peterhansel from France had nothing to do with the overall success at Audi’s Dakar premiere in the RS Q e-tron. The 56-year-old Frenchman only missed victory on the short twelfth and final stage by 49 seconds.
With his clear triumph – he led from the first stage – Al-Attiyah moved up to second place in the all-time best list, level with the four-time winner Ari Vatanen from Finland. Peterhansel won a total of 14 Dakar victories.
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