These are the extended highlights of Stage 12 - the final stage of #Dakar2024 - brought to you courtesy of @aramco. In the Ultimate category Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz secured the overall victory, making Sainz the first ever driver to win the rally with 4 different manufacturers! In the Bikes class Ricky Brabec got the job done, navigating the final 175km special in Yanbu to clinch a second title following his triumph in 2020!
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00:00 This is it.
00:07 Crunch time.
00:08 Judgment day at Dakar 2024.
00:15 Ricky Brabeck led the Dakar this morning by just over 10 minutes to Ross Branch.
00:20 Rick and Ross were also top two yesterday, so they were first out.
00:26 A comfortable lead should see a free Ricky.
00:29 Ross was hoping against hope to flip the order at the top.
00:34 No major difficulties today, but any issue can wreck your hopes here, no matter how solid
00:38 things look at the start.
00:39 174k of special.
00:42 The leading woman, and in fact the only remaining woman in the rally, is Brit Jane Daniels, whose
00:47 dad Andy arrived a couple of days ago to see her complete this challenge.
00:51 You sir can be very proud.
00:54 Original by Motul is no walk in the park, but it has been a cakewalk for Austrian Tobias
00:58 Gebster.
00:59 He's led since day one and is top rookie.
01:01 Congratulations to everyone who's reached Jambu without assistance.
01:05 I have to give big respect to all Mali motor riders out there.
01:11 This is the real deal.
01:12 This is the real rally Dakar, definitely.
01:16 Indian Harit Noah can finally look at how he's done, and having not looked at any results
01:20 since the start, he'll be absolutely stoked when he does.
01:23 11th on the stage, 11th overall, and winner of the Rally 2 class.
01:27 He's the first Indian ever to win a Dakar title.
01:30 Romain Dumontier led the category for most of the rally, and it was some ride from South
01:35 African Bradley Cox.
01:37 Four top ten finishes brings him a Rally 2 podium.
01:40 The top three in Rally 2 were 11, 12 and 13 overall.
01:45 How long before factory teams come knocking?
01:53 The Benavidez fan club was in town at the start.
01:56 Kevin was first on stages three and eight, and again today.
01:59 That's three for him, and three for KTM.
02:10 Toby Price second on the special, and fifth in the final reckoning.
02:14 The double Dakar winner will be back, I'm sure.
02:22 Kevin's brother Luciano was next fastest, and that's the third time that both have made
02:26 the podium on a special.
02:30 It's been a pretty good Dakar for the Benavidez brothers, but Ricky Brabeck's ride at Dakar
02:35 46 has been remarkable, dominant, irresistible.
02:38 He's the boss.
02:39 He was ninth in his first Dakar.
02:41 The next one he finished, he wore nine and won.
02:44 It's his ninth Dakar, and he's number nine this year.
02:46 Superstitious much, Ricky?
02:49 Me and Ross spent like three days with a couple seconds difference, so it was a tight race
02:55 for all of us.
02:57 Ricky was good every single day.
02:58 You know, he deserves the win, but I've got another 11 months to train harder, to work
03:02 better and come back stronger next year.
03:05 Finally on the podium of the Dakar, it tastes really good.
03:12 Ross Branch, every neutral's favorite.
03:14 The Kalahari Ferrari rode great this year, even if he came up short.
03:18 Rick smiling Ross and Frenchman Adrien Van Beveren has entertained us for two weeks on
03:22 two wheels and made his first podium.
03:24 Chapeau, Monsieur.
03:25 10.53, the final gap.
03:29 And while I usually have to work hard for alliterations, it's easy today.
03:32 Brabeck Branch, Beveren, Benavidez.
03:34 The four B's are buzzing.
03:37 Alexander Giroud took a sixth victory in the quads, but it wasn't enough to retain the
03:41 crown.
03:42 Manuel Andujar took a second Dakar.
03:44 Those two have had quite the ding dong this year.
04:06 Would you ever consider doing the Dakar?
04:07 Do you know what it takes?
04:09 Could you handle it?
04:10 The preparation, the cost, the stress.
04:20 The terrain, the fatigue, the never ending stages.
04:29 How would you handle the roller coaster of emotions and the possibility of it all ending
04:33 in disaster?
04:34 Feeling like everything you've worked for has gone in a moment.
04:50 One more day.
04:51 Yeah, one more day.
04:52 We were thinking tomorrow maybe we start with the truck pulling us, just to finish the stage
04:58 for sure.
04:59 My heart is broken.
05:08 Yeah, for sure.
05:11 I tell you how you do it.
05:13 Because no matter what befalls you here, on this, the biggest and toughest rally of them
05:17 all, no matter what happens, the Dakar is an event beyond equal, an adventure that cannot
05:23 be beaten, the experience of a lifetime.
05:26 Of course, to finish is the goal, the ambition, the prize, the joy.
05:37 But to be here at all is already an achievement.
05:40 It can mean everything.
05:42 It can mean even more than that.
05:45 For us, it's been the hardest stage of the rally Dakar today.
05:54 From the moment you arrive, you're part of something bigger.
05:57 You become a part of the Dakar family, because you did the Dakar.
06:05 Two Toyota Hiluxes were in the top four, with French driver Gerland Chicharit in fourth,
06:10 his best result in the Dakar since 2005.
06:13 But had he not lost so much time early on, the story could have been even better.
06:19 Belgian Guillaume de Mevius won third in T3s last year.
06:22 This year, he's bettered it on his first drive in a car, second, an hour and 20 minutes off
06:27 the top.
06:35 Another victory for Seb Loeb today.
06:37 It will be not much consolation to missing out on the one victory he craves more than
06:41 any other.
06:42 It's now five stages this year and five podium finishes from eight Dakars.
06:46 He's now the driver with the most podiums without a win.
06:53 Against a team like Audi who put everything in to win, getting a podium is a big deal
07:23 for him.
07:24 He's not that bad.
07:25 Of course, it's magic.
07:26 For my first Dakar in T1, second between Seinz and Loeb, it's incredible.
07:35 Proud, relieved and especially happy, obviously, of what he has achieved.
07:54 He's incredible at his age and with this project, it was his dream and he made it happen.
08:03 The result of the payback for a long, long and hard work.
08:08 Especially last year, it was a very tough experience for us all.
08:14 It's one of the most complex operations that we ever did.
08:19 Carlos is a legend.
08:20 For me, I could learn so many things from him and I think all the team could do the
08:25 same.
08:28 It's really an honour for me and for the team to work with him.
08:34 I want to dedicate it to the entire team, to my team mates, to Matias and Emil, to Stefan
08:39 and Edouard because they really helped me to win this.
08:46 So that's it.
08:47 Carlos Seinz has won a fourth Dakar, Audi have finally won a Dakar and a partial electric
08:51 car has won the Dakar.
08:53 This ultimate Dakar victory is the past, the present and the future all rolled into
08:58 one.
08:59 Felicidades, campeon.
09:08 In week one, the challenger class was dominated by Eric Gottschalk, who was rocked on the
09:12 rest day by the 19-year-old's disqualification for a non-compliant clutch.
09:16 Coming into the final day, Mitch Guthrie and Kellan Walsh had a 25-minute lead over Spanish
09:21 duo Cristina Gutierrez and Pablo Moreno.
09:24 The Americans have played it safe the last few days and kept out of trouble.
09:27 But today, turbo problems and then transmission issues cost Guthrie over an hour and gave
09:32 Gutierrez the title.
09:34 A historic day.
09:38 She's only the second ever female winner of a Dakar class.
09:41 And of course, commiserations to Mitch and Kellan, who have driven a great race.
09:46 Congratulations to Cristina and Pablo, and final day heartbreak is something that third
09:51 place Roch Aspashuska knows all about from last year.
09:54 In the T4s, Jerome de Sadalier won on the day, but not by enough to change the final
10:22 standings.
10:23 Xavier de Soultre takes the title.
10:25 And after a very difficult Dakar for local fans, Saudi Yasser Seydan makes up the podium.
10:35 Mitchell van den Brink finishes the highest-paced Dutchman in the trucks, third overall for
10:39 the 22-year-old, but he's aiming higher.
10:47 Alice Loprice won today's final stage, finishing just under two hours back in second.
10:55 But victory went to Martin Maciek, the first Czech winner of this class since 2001.
11:00 He won it at a canter and his team built three of the trucks in the top ten.
11:07 But it's time for us to say goodbye to the rocks, the sand, the dunes and the drama.
11:12 We experienced this together, the competitors, the organization, me and all of you, the amazing
11:18 editors who put this incredible show together, Kevin, Emre and Jean-Phi.
11:22 Thank you all for letting me into your lives and your homes for these two weeks.
11:26 It's an honor to have taken this journey with all of you.
11:29 See you in 2025.
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