Indian bike racer CS Santosh has a suspected head harm after he suffered a crash on Wednesday in Stage 4 of the 2021 Dakar Rally underway in Saudi Arabia. It’s understood that the 37-year-old was aware when paramedics arrived on the scene and was airlifted to a hospital in Riyadh.

“It is established order as of now. We have not had any recent updates from Riyadh. Docs had positioned Santosh below a 24-hour commentary which is but to run out. Some scan outcomes are anticipated this night. For now, the crew is constant with the race in Stage 5,” a HeroSports official instructed ESPN. Santosh’s teammate Joaquim Rodrigues accomplished Stage 4 in sixth place general, the primary top-10 end for HeroSports on the Dakar Rally this yr.

Santosh crashed round 135km into the stage on a gravel monitor and needed to forfeit the stage. In line with stories, he was attended to by the on-ground medical crew earlier than being flown to Saudi German hospital in Riyadh.

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The January 2-16 rally divided into 12 levels has opponents traversing 7646 km. Stage 4 is, by the way, the longest stage of the rally, spanning a complete of 813 km.

Final yr, HeroSports withdrew from the rally after the dying of rally veteran crew member Paulo Goncalves. The Portuguese rider, 40, had crashed midway via the seventh stage and suffered a cardiac arrest.

This was Santosh’s seventh try on the Dakar Rally, thought-about the world’s most grueling off-road motorsport occasion. He was the primary Indian to finish the race in 2015, and replicated the hassle in two additional editions. Santosh had a near-fatal accident in the course of the 2013 Abu Dhabi desert problem. He suffered third-degree burns to his neck after his Suzuki MX450X caught fireplace.