Dakar Rally 2025

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Lategan retakes the lead with only 2 stages left to go (308 Km special and then a short 61 Km special). Ekstrom and Nasser seem out of the fight on speed, unless something happens at the top 2.

Cars within 1 hour gap:
1 - Henk Lategan (Toyota GR)
2 - Yazeed Al Rajhi (Toyota Overdrive) +2m 27s
3 - Mattias Ekstrom (Ford) +26m 46s
4 - Nasser Al Attiyah (Dacia) +30m 21s
5 - Mitchell Guthrie (Ford) +54m 05s
6 - Mathieu Serradori (Century) +59m 41s

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Al Rajhi retakes the lead of the Dakar, only 61 Km to go. If he doesn't have problems, it's finally his.

Top 10 before the final stage:
1 - Yazeed Al Rajhi (Toyota Overdrive)
2 - Henk Lategan (Toyota GR) +6m 11s
3 - Mattias Ekstrom (Ford) +22m 34s
4 - Nasser Al Attiyah (Dacia) +26m 50s
5 - Mitchell Guthrie (Ford) +59m 26s
6 - Mathieu Serradori (Century) +1h 10m 08s
7 - Juan Cruz Yacopini (Toyota Overdrive) +1h 58m 13s
8 - Joao Ferreira (Mini) +2h 15m 59s
9 - Seth Quintero (Toyota GR) +2h 19m 47s
10 - Brian Baragwanath (Century) +2h 53m 26s

They said it was going to be a tough Dakar, but very few changes in the top 10 this year. Little drama with punctures, suspension problems etc. compared to last year.

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Yazeed Al Rajhi wins the Dakar, congratulations to him and to Overdrive Racing, finally they won a Dakar!

Final Top 10:
1 - Yazeed Al Rajhi (Toyota Overdrive)
2 - Henk Lategan (Toyota GR) +3m 57s
3 - Mattias Ekstrom (Ford) +20m 21s
4 - Nasser Al Attiyah (Dacia) +23m 58s
5 - Mitchell Guthrie (Ford) +1h 02m 10s
6 - Mathieu Serradori (Century) +1h 12m 04s
7 - Juan Cruz Yacopini (Toyota Overdrive) +1h 57m 47s
8 - Joao Ferreira (Mini) +2h 15m 57s
9 - Seth Quintero (Toyota GR) +2h 20m 04s
10 - Brian Baragwanath (Century) +2h 59m 26s

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In the truck category, Martin Macik won again with his Iveco Powerstar Torpedo.
9 out of 10 trucks of the top 10 are Iveco Powerstar Torpedos, only 9th is Tomas Vratny with his Tatra by Fesh Fesh Team.
The "works" truck of Soltys (Tatra Buggyra Racing) and Sugawara (Hino) had been in the top 10 all the rally, but fell out of it in the last stages.