Dakar Rally 2025

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Very good second half of the marathon stage for Loeb, he takes 19 minutes from the leader Al Rajhi and finishes the marathon stage +13m 08s.
Sainz kept losing time, big time losses also for De Mevius, De Villiers and Botterill. Roma and Gutierrez didn't finish the stage and had to be towed back to service by the assistance trucks.

Top 10 overall:
1 - Henk Lategan (Toyota GR)
2 - Yazeed Al Rajhi (Toyota Overdrive) +4m 45s
3 - Nasser Al Attiyah (Dacia) +11m 14s
4 - Toby Price (Toyota Overdrive) +11m 44s
5 - Mattias Ekstrom (Ford) +13m 16s
6 - Sebastien Loeb (Dacia) +18m 56s
7 - Lucas Moraes (Toyota GR) +20m 57s
8 - Mitchell Guthrie (Ford) +23m 33s
9 - Mathieu Serradori (Century) +23m 45s
10 - Juan Cruz Yacopini (Toyota Overdrive) +23 57s

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De Villiers and Variawa (Toyota teammates) collided during the stage. Also Chicherit hit another car in the dust. They all lost plenty of time.

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Sainz out because of broken rollcage and Loeb rolled today

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after the roll, Loeb lost little more than one hour from the leader. Most likely chances of victory are gone. Many Kms left, but unless the top guys like Al Attiyah, Al Rajhi etc. run intro trouble, there's no way of taking back this amount of time from them.

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Footage of the roll: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P4GGtX0_t4s

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Top 5 after today:

1 - Henk Lategan (Toyota GR)
2 - Nasser Al Attiyah (Dacia) +7m 17s
3 - Mattias Ekstrom (Ford) +9m 34s
4 - Yazeed Al Rajhi (Toyota Overdrive) +11m 45s
5 - Lucas Moraes (Toyota GR) +19m 40s

Loeb is 16th at +1h 14m 45s, Prokop fell to 25th at +1h 52m 46s

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Loeb also retired with the same reason as Sainz, rollcage broken

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The crash is partly covered by dust so I can't judge well, but it didn't seem such a violent roll that would cause a retirement. But maybe the rollcage was damaged by a sharp stone while rolling, who knows...

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Prodrive appealed against the decision to "exclude" Loeb for damaged rollcage. Next stage starts in few hours from now, so not much time to reverse a decision.

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The appeal from Dacia seems to have been rejected. Al Attiyah lost 30 minutes after stopping twice.

Cars within 1 hour from the lead:

1 - Henk Lategan (Toyota GR)
2 - Yazeed Al Rajhi (Toyota Overdrive) +6m 54s
3 - Mattias Ekstrom (Ford) +21m 40s
4 - Mathieu Serradori (Century) +30m 25s
5 - Lucas Moraes (Toyota GR) +33m 25s
6 - Mitchell Guthrie (Ford) +34m 09s
7 - Nasser Al Attiyah (Dacia) +35m 53s
8 - Juan Cruz Yacopini (Toyota Overdrive) +41m 10s

Serradori with the Century buggy in the podium fight is a cool sight.