Defending Dakar Rally champion Nasser Al-Attiyah slashed Carlos Sainz Sr’s lead with victory on the second stage, as Sebastien Loeb lost over an hour with three punctures. Full report here from an eventful second day ⬇️
Toyota’s Al-Attiyah overturned a 1m34s deficit to Erik van Loon on the final split of the 430km Sea Camp to Alula stage, the fourth-longest stage of the 2023 Dakar, to win Monday’s contest by 14s from the Overdrive entrant.
The three-time Dakar Rally winner took third on the stage behind Al-Attiyah and van Loon, ending the day having conceded 5m05s to Al-Attiyah. “It was just a question of going very slow and trying to avoid a puncture. That was the only goal of the stage and in the end we had three.#201 Bahrain Raid Xtreme Prodrive: Sebastien Loeb, Fabian LurquinWith Audi duo Stephane Peterhansel and Mattias Ekstrom – the latter given a 15-minute penalty for missing a way point on the opening stage – also hitting early trouble, the battle for victory is already emerging between Sainz and Al-Attiyah.
Serrardori is just 45s up on surprise package Simon Vitse in fourth overall for MD Rally, after a two-minute penalty for Giniel de Villiers restricted the Toyota driver to fifth in the general classification.
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