Dakar Rally 2023

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Stage win for Ekstrom, in front of Peterhansel and Chicherit. Loeb was leading the stage with 3 minutes gap on Sainz but then something happened and finished the stage 6 minutes behind Sainz. Nasser with the other Prodrive had engine troubles and couldn't finish the stage.

Top 5 after today:
1 - Carlos Sainz (Audi)
2 - Sebastien Loeb (Prodrive) + 24m 47s
3 - Lucas Moraes (Toyota) + 1h 05m 13s
4 - Guillaume De Mevius (Toyota Overdrive) + 1h 34m 18s
5 - Giniel De Villiers (Toyota) + 1h 45m 12s

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Loeb was leading the stage with 3 minutes gap on Sainz but then something happened and finished the stage 6 minutes behind Sainz.

navigation error

“It was a difficult day today. We had a good stage. I was really pushing hard all through the stage, but we made a mistake with the navigation and lost around ten minutes, so we again lost quite a lot of time to Carlos”.

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6,50 at the video,Nasser not happy at all.
we had problems from day 1.
Last 2 years he havent got any problems(with Toyota)
https://www.dakar.com/en/news/2024/o...g-today/188746

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6,50 at the video,Nasser not happy at all.
we had problems from day 1.
Last 2 years he havent got any problems(with Toyota)
https://www.dakar.com/en/news/2024/o...g-today/188746

Nasser must have known he was leaving the best car/team... but maybe he didn't expect this level of unreliability from Prodrive. Loeb was "lucky" so far he didn't have any rally-ending technical trouble, but maybe he's also driving more carefully being used to Prodrive vs Nasser driving more aggressively being used to Toyota.
It will be hard to catch Carlos if he doesn't make navigation mistakes / punctures etc.

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Stage win for Loeb in front of Sainz (+ 4m 14s) and Serradori (+ 4m 43s). Sainz still has a comfortable lead, but a mistake or a puncture can change things.

Top 5:
1 - Carlos Sainz (Audi)
2 - Sebastien Loeb (Prodrive) + 20m 33s
3 - Lucas Moraes (Toyota) + 1h 12m 02s
4 - Guillaume De Mevius (Toyota Overdrive) + 1h 39m 56s
5 - Giniel De Villiers (Toyota) + 2h 00m 12s

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Loeb

“It was a good day for us, a long stage. We had two punctures in the middle of the stage, so at the end I had to be a bit careful and not have a third one. But overall, we took three minutes out of Carlos. The gap is still big, but we still have three stages to go. So, we’ll see and we’ll continue to push for the next three days”.


Peterhansel

“We were in first, second and fourth this morning, with Chicherit in the middle, who we overtook. I waited for Carlos for 6 minutes at the start to escort him throughout the special, always thirty seconds behind just in case. It wasn’t easy for him because as long as there were cars in front, they were laying down tracks, but for the last 200 km he opened on his own. You could see that he was hesitating a few times, which isn’t too bad a thing when navigating, but it still wasn’t an easy stage.
. Carlos is in a good position. But Sébastien is capable of recovering ten minutes a day, or even more if he goes to the limit. So, I can understand why Carlos is stressed. Having 20-25 minutes is good, but if you have a technical problem, you lose them very quickly”.

Sainz
“I think I’m happy with the stage, bearing in mind I opened quite a lot. At the end it was very stressful inside the car and very difficult to navigate. The three cars were together, so it was good, I knew I had some support behind me”.

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Mallet moto rider Carles Falcón died after being in induced coma.

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Classification after stage 9:

Bikes

USA Ricky Brabec (Honda), 40:53'49
BWA Ross Branch (Hero), + 7'
FRA Adrien van Beveren (Honda), + 11'
CHI José Ignacio Cornejo (Honda) + 13'
ARG Kevin Benavides (KTM), + 28'
AUS Toby Price (KTM), + 35'
ARG Luciano Benavides (Husqvarna), + 49'
AUS Daniel Sanders (Gas Gas), + 59'
SVK Stefan Svitko (KTM), + 1:23'
CZE Martin Michek (KTM), + 2:20'
FRA Romain Dumontier (Husqvarna), + 2:24'
FRA Jeanloup Lepan (KTM), + 2:35'

T1 Ultimate Cars

ESP Carlos Sainz (Audi), 37:50'57
FRA Sebastien Loeb (Prodrive), + 20'
BRA Lucas Moraes (Toyota), + 1:12'
BEL Guillaume de Mevius (Toyota), + 1:39'
FRA Mathieu Serradori (Century), + 2:03'
FRA Guerlain Chicherit (Toyota), + 2:12'
CZE Martin Prokop (Ford), + 2:12'
RSA Giniel de Villiers (Toyota), + 2:15'
RSA Guy David Botterill (Toyota), + 2:29'
LTU Benediktas Vanagas (Toyota), + 2:29'
KGZ Denis Krotov (Toyota), + 3:21'
BRA Cristian Baumgart (Prodrive), +3:47'

T3 Challengers

USA Mitchell Guthrie (Taurus), 42:09'25
ESP Cristina Gutiérrez (Taurus), + 28'
CHI Francisco López (Can-Am), + 36'
LTU Rokas Baciuska (Can-Am), + 1:22'
USA Austin Jones (Can-Am), + 1:27'

T4 SSV

FRA Xavier de Soultrait (Polaris), 44:53'33
USA Sara Price (Can-Am), + 28'
SUI Jerome de Sadeleer (Polaris), + 31'
SAU Yasir Seaidan (Can-Am), 37'
POR Joao Ferreira (Can-Am), + 1:18'
ECU Sebastián Guayasamin (Can-Am), + 2:27'


T5 Trucks

CZE Martin Macik (Iveco), 43:26'01
CZE Ales Loprais (Praga), + 1:54'
NED Mitchel van der Brink (Iveco), + 2:12'
NED Janus van Kasteren (Iveco), + 4:36'
NED Vick Versteejnen (Iveco), + 7:25'
NED Michiel Becx (Iveco), + 10:49'

Quads:

ARG Manuel Andujar (Yamaha), 51:07'27
FRA Alexandre Giroud (Yamaha), + 6'
SVK Juraj Varga (Yamaha), + 3:08'
LTU Laisvydas Kancius (Yamaha), + 5:24'
LTU Anastas Kanopkinas (CFMoto), + 27:05'

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Nasser decided to retire from this year's Dakar, stating "Sorry, I don't want to jump again in this car"

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source?

found it at extendet hgh lights
harsh words from Nasser!