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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00:00Can you hear me?
00:07Yes, I can hear you.
00:08This is rider number 70.
00:11I am okay.
00:12Yes.
00:13But I want to abandon.
00:14I cannot continue.
00:15What happened?
00:18I'm not feeling it.
00:19I cannot ride.
00:20I don't know why.
00:21David, castera one, not on zero.
00:34Seems like today will be a very difficult stage.
00:37Also, it was raining a lot, so maybe some pieces will be difficult to catch.
00:43But it's important to be focused on the navigation and try to go with that pace.
00:47Have a good day, my friend.
00:48Have a good day.
00:49Have a good day.
00:50Enjoy.
00:51Be careful.
00:52Be careful.
00:53Take care.
00:54See you tomorrow.
00:55Honda have been unsuccessfully chasing Daniel Sanders since day one.
00:59And it got worse today.
01:00Pablo Quintanilla fell badly after the third checkpoint.
01:03Adrian Van Beveren and Luciano Benavides first on the scene.
01:08He was laying on the ground and immediately we stopped and we called the helicopter.
01:12But he had like a big concussion.
01:15It's always a really strange feeling, you know?
01:19Then to restart and to push again, you need to try to forget.
01:24Pablo wasn't the only withdrawal today.
01:26Daniel Nosilla-Jäger was also flown away early on.
01:29I was going very fast.
01:31I was a little bit in the dust, so I don't see like a river cut and I have like a huge
01:37crash.
01:38My shoulder is hurting a lot, but I'm OK and that is like this.
01:44There was trouble everywhere between Al-Duadimi and Riyadh, it seems.
01:48Nacho Corneca also caught out by Al-Wadi.
01:51It was very confusing there.
01:54I was following a line and luckily I was able to brake, but it was a close one.
01:59It was a big hole.
02:00Yeah, yeah.
02:01Saved it like barely.
02:02It looked like Honda's day was going to have a better ending with a clean sweep of the
02:05podium.
02:06Tosca Serena had the quickest scratch time.
02:09It was another long day at the office.
02:12I tried to push and take that bonus time with Daniel.
02:15I don't know about the final results because Luciano and Adrian had to stop there with
02:22Pablo.
02:23Luciano and Adrian had stopped with Quintanilla for over half an hour, so after the finish
02:28that time was given back to them.
02:29VBA posted the second best time and stays on the virtual podium.
02:33Benavidez got past quite a few in the gathering dust, winning the special by two minutes.
02:38Ricky Braybeck and Skyler Howells completed the top five.
02:40Stage win finally, but it was not easy.
02:48Even more complicated because of the dust was not an advantage for sure.
02:52So yeah, happy to get the win and so yeah, it feels really good.
02:58Rally raid equivalent of poetic justice in a way after the Argentine had stage five taken
03:02away from him just before the rest day.
03:04He's up to fourth.
03:05Sander still leads by 11 minutes.
03:08In Rally 2, Michael Doherty broke the Edgar Canett-Tobias-Ebster duopoly with a second
03:13win this year, but Canett increased his lead over Ebster to more than 31 minutes.
03:18They're both in the top 10 in overall.
03:21Emmanuel Genes topped the original by a Mottul standing today.
03:23He leads by 11.38.
03:25As I've learned Dakar can change quickly.
03:38For me it was like this last year, in a blink of a second, then you're out of it.
03:43Two years ago when we came here and we got up to as high as second overall, then unfortunately
03:49we broke a damper that put us quite far back.
03:52So far, I feel pretty good.
03:55We are happy.
03:56We are still in the race, still fighting.
03:58It's nice to be in the battle, in the top three.
04:02All the top guys are quite close, which means we'll all be bunched up.
04:05Everything under control until now.
04:07I'm just trying to keep a level head, stay humble, stay calm.
04:11At one point, if you prepare like a winner, you will become a winner one day.
04:15Maybe tomorrow on 80 percent.
04:18After tomorrow, 90.
04:19After 100.
04:20We'll see.
04:21It's all about winning it.
04:23Inshallah.
04:25Over 730k for everyone today, two-thirds of it was timed.
04:30We've had everything so far this year, drama, domination and despair, thrills, spills and
04:35skills.
04:36Would today live up to what's come before?
04:37You betcha.
04:38Lukas Moraes opened and finished 24th.
04:41It was a good day for me to learn how to open and to navigate ourselves with no bike lines
04:47at all.
04:48So more experience, more experience, more experience is needed to win this thing one
04:53day.
04:55Cristina Gutierrez was 12th.
04:57We have everything, rocks, dunes, fast tracks, slow tracks, easy to get lost.
05:05Just in front of her, Nasser Al-Attiyah, who lost more time.
05:08Yeah, I'm happy to finish this day, you know.
05:15Sometimes we've been lucky, sometimes no, but yeah, we are here.
05:21You know, with the bike, easy to see, but with the cars, it's not easy, but OK.
05:26We are happy and yeah, it was a great day.
05:30Seth Quintero was 10th, then Pachuska, Ferreira and Prokop.
05:35Yazeed Al-Raji, sixth quickest.
05:37I catch Ekstrom, I catch Nasser, that means we keep him far away from us.
05:43Matthias Ekstrom had a bad day, shipping 18 minutes.
05:52Yeah, in the beginning it was bad, but later in the dunes it was pretty fun.
05:58Third on the day, Mathieu Ceradori and Loïc Minaudier.
06:15Runner-up today, playing a support role for team-mate Henk Latyken, was another South
06:19African Guy Bottrell.
06:20Our job is just trying to stay as close as possible to him, with as many spares as possible,
06:24so if he needs anything.
06:26You can stay close behind.
06:28It's always nice to have somebody that can follow you.
06:31It's a good day for South Africa, a good day for Toyota and really happy to finish second.
06:37Leader Latyken led them all home for Toyota Gazoo Racing and took 4.20 out of his rivals.
06:42The stage win for Latyken means he's now 5 minutes 41 clear of Al-Raji, 29 ahead of Ekstrom.
06:49Alatia is now 34 minutes adrift at the top.
06:52Henk the Hench is showing his strength.
07:06Dust at the bivouac.
07:12Dust on the track.
07:15Dust everywhere, actually.
07:18Alish Lopresh said that was one of the most uncomfortable stages of the rally so far.
07:23There were stones, there were bumps, and there was a lot of traffic.
07:29Did I mention the dust at all?
07:35You can throw as much fesh fesh as you like at Martin Matic though, and he'll just blast
07:39right through it.
07:40A fourth win of this edition for the defending champion, he leads by a massive 2.5 hours.
07:46Better dust off that trophy, I guess.
07:54It's now two straight wins in the SSVs for Jeremiah Gonzalez Ferraioli.
07:58Jerome de Sadelier was third today, and runaway leader Brock Hegger doesn't need to do anything
08:03more than keep tabs on his rivals for the next four days.
08:06That's what he did today.
08:07Second on the stage, 1 hour 41 advantage overall.
08:12And he's got five Dakars under his belt in the cars, the trucks, and the T4s.
08:16He's only 20 years old, and today Paolo Navarro finally took a maiden victory after an enthralling
08:22duel in the T3s with David Sile.
08:25Nicolas Cavigliasso had no issues and is way out in front.
08:35It's a long, long road, with many a winding turn.
08:41And while we're on the way to there, why not share?
08:47So on we go.
08:48His welfare is my concern.
08:51He ain't heavy.
08:53He's my Dakar brother.
09:11The Dakar brings us together, brothers and sisters.
09:14Catch you tomorrow, rally fans.