Two days from the finish, Bharat holds third in a field separated by the narrowest of margins.
Menon's second dispatch has Bharat holding third place — 3,526 km covered as of midday on 27 June — in a contest where everyone except Suzuki at the front was trading places between second and fourth by tiny margins.
The piece tracks the closing stages through a series of timestamped updates, and also follows the Indian riders tackling V-RAW (the shorter Race Across the West built into the event), including members of Bharat's own support crew.
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