The 47th edition of the Dakar has set a date for the world's rally-raiders in Saudi Arabia from 3 to 17 January.
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00:00ENGINES REVVING
00:05Welcome to Stage 7.
00:07HE HUMS
00:10Seven categories, working 24-7.
00:13HE HUMS
00:16To crown the magnificent seven...
00:18HE HUMS
00:21..of Dakar 47.
00:24HE SCREAMS
00:25He did it!
00:27It's very cool, isn't it?
00:28Yes, it is.
00:57You basically are in a completely different world and all the rest is outside and you
01:13don't worry about it, you have no idea.
01:16The only thing you think is about you and the unknown.
01:43Yesterday we lost the world champion, the Kalahari Ferrari, and one of the most popular
01:48men in Rally Raid, Motswana Ross Branche.
01:52I hit the ground hard and I was going super fast, like 140km an hour when I hit that thing,
01:58so disappointed with myself and with what I threw away, but Dakar comes around every
02:03year, so as long as I'm healthy then I can be back next year.
02:07We hope so Ross, we hope so.
02:09In the bikes, it's Daniel Sanders KTM versus the Hondas.
02:12Ice cold and ice cool 2020 and 2024 Dakar winner Ricky Braybeck, another top 10 today.
02:21My teammates are over there doing interviews and they're ahead of me on the podium so it'll
02:27be a battle to the end.
02:28If I can land on the podium that'll be super awesome, so that's kind of what I'm fighting
02:31for.
02:32Opening with Ricky, Adrian Van Beveren who's coming into form at just the right time.
02:37I catch Ricky at kilometre 30, so it's been like opening from there.
02:41We did a really good team job with Ricky and Tosha.
02:45VBA was 5th and Serena, Tosha, 3rd, with the Spaniard cementing his 2nd position overall.
02:54Pablo Quintanilla has been unusually quiet on his 13th appearance.
02:57He's not such a fan of the Rocky specials, but sand is like his personal playground.
03:01He was 4th today.
03:03Someone else we've hardly seen, Mason Klein, the American was flying yesterday, figuratively
03:07but did so for real today in a helicopter after his cove ground to a halt.
03:14The crankshaft is snapped so at the end it doesn't turn on anymore and I'm out of gas.
03:21Also, I don't know why but my horn doesn't work anymore.
03:26It's definitely not easy to get towed in the dunes.
03:32But today rally leader Daniel Sarnas did something quite incredible.
03:35A 5th stage win of the year truly brings him into the League of Legends.
03:39Only 5 men have won more than that in a single Dakar.
03:42And, while of course it's highly improbable, if he were to win 4 of the next 5 days,
03:46he would equal Hubert Ariel's record of 9 victories in one edition.
03:50Chucky, we salute you.
03:533.47 gained on Serena means his lead is now over 15 minutes.
03:57Luciano and Skyler switch places, but it's a pack of greyhounds chasing a supercharged Australian rabbit.
04:03What 19-year-old rookie Edgar Canett from Rally 2 is doing here is simply astonishing.
04:08Did I mention he's 19 and a Dakar debutant?
04:11Of all the bikes today, he was second, like Carmela Harris in the US election.
04:22I had two dreams since I was a little kid. Mount Everest and Dakar.
04:27I completed the Everest five years ago, and basically I only started riding bikes four years ago.
04:36On the 48-hour Kronos stage I really ended up in the tunes, I didn't even make it to the first bivouac.
04:45It was an experience I will certainly remember for my lifetime.
04:50If Dakar is a 10, Everest is only a 3. It was a kindergarten compared to this.
04:55And this is no bullshit.
04:57Dennis Mildenberger, we salute you too.
05:07Yeah, I mean, it's not going to be this time we're going to win one of these to Brazil, but we'll try again.
05:14Happy to be back and happy to have the car in one piece.
05:20It's not easy on the driver and it's definitely not easy on the navigator,
05:23and we hit a little bit of a square-edge hole.
05:27Yeah, safety and health is more important than anything in the world.
05:32I don't want Sammy to get to 50, 60 years old and can't remember his name and stuff like that.
05:37So, yeah, the smartest guy in the world.
05:40We're going to open today, so it's not going to be easy, but we're going to do our best,
05:43we're going to give everything to be good, not make mistakes and go all the way.
05:47No mistakes, said yesterday's winner, Guillaume Demévius,
05:50and it was the Belgian leading out early this morning,
05:52but the X-Raid Mini's resolve didn't hold out.
05:55A puncture at KM80 and some navigation issues.
05:58But the team is ready to go.
06:00We're going to do our best, we're going to do our best,
06:03we're going to do our best, we're going to do our best,
06:06we're going to do our best, we're going to do our best,
06:09and some navigation issues after 1.60 met he was passed by 16 other cars,
06:13including Seth Quintero, who ended the day fifth fastest.
06:18Second overall overnight, today wasn't Yazeed Al-Raji's best ever drive,
06:22but his seventh place enough to reduce the gap to the top with five stages to go.
06:29Did you switch into Yazeed mode?
06:31Not yet. We'll keep something in the bucket.
06:34Plenty of drivers had issues with the route this morning. Here's why.
06:51Fifth overall is Mitch Guthrie.
06:53He doesn't have the profile of his Ford M-Sport teammates,
06:56Sainz, Roma and Ekstrom, but he and co-driver Kellen Walsh
06:59finished third, the best stage result of their careers.
07:04Ekstrom is having a storming Dakar,
07:0616th on the prologue, the Swede hasn't been outside the top eight since.
07:10Third overall, but now only 10 minutes adrift.
07:13The stage went to Lucas Moraes,
07:15tough for the Brazilian yesterday with major handling issues,
07:18but he picked up five W2RC points by winning the day.
07:25Another stage win for Brazil, for us, for Toyota,
07:29is very important for me after yesterday.
07:34Let's celebrate with the team.
07:36The field are closing in on Latakhen.
07:38Yazeed's Toyota, Matthias' Ford and Nasser's Dacia
07:41are chasing him down, and 21 seconds,
07:43the closest gap after seven stages since 2009,
07:46when Sainz led de Villiers by nine seconds.
07:52After doing nine editions of the Dakar in a car,
07:54winning the first-ever stage in Saudi,
07:56Vaidotta Zala is discovering the trucks in 25.
07:59It's a steep learning curve, but he was second today, eighth overall.
08:04Alistair Price described this as a juicy stage,
08:07and he squeezed everything he could out of that Iveco Powerstar
08:10to win by nine and a half minutes from Zala.
08:15But no sweat for rally leader Martin Matzik.
08:18He cruised home in third,
08:19and with Mitchell van den Brink struggling with belt issues,
08:22the Czech increased his lead to over two hours.
08:29The sixth special was particularly taxing for Danijel Akil,
08:32who finished at 6.30 a.m. this morning,
08:34four minutes after they were supposed to start stage seven.
08:37We came back.
08:39We're a bit late for our start time for the next stage.
08:41We're not too sure if we want to start
08:44because we don't know what we're driving for anymore.
08:48They did leave the bivouac, but soon turned round and came back.
08:51On the course, Corbyn Leverton kept to the week two strategy
08:54he and Tay Perry had worked on
08:56and delivered a second stage victory in the Taurus T3 Max.
08:59Cavigliasso and Pertiguerini still have a half-hour lead over Guerrero.
09:04Yesterday, Jeremias Gonzalez Ferraioli led the special
09:07but slipped to fourth by the end.
09:09No mistake this time.
09:10The Argentine earned a second career win,
09:12Can-Am's fifth in a row.
09:1451 seconds between him and Brock Hegger,
09:16whose dominance takes the shape of a one-hour 36-minute gap to second.
09:21There is a story behind every Dakar participant.
09:24There's a reason why they are the way they are.
09:26And in return, the Dakar creates a story for every participant,
09:30a reason why they'll be the way they are after their Dakar experience.
09:34Something in the past created them
09:36and something in the Dakar changes them forever.
09:39Be excited. Be inspired.
09:41For tomorrow, we meet again, rally fans.