Carlos Sainz Sr wins another stage to extend 2020 Dakar Rally lead – Dakar

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Carlos Sainz became the first repeat stage winner of this year’s Dakar Rally as he beat Nasser Al-Attiyah to extend his advantage overall to just under six minutes.

X-raid Mini Buggy driver Sainz came onto the stage with a 3m3s lead over Toyota rival Al-Attiyah and looked set to drop further time as he lost two-and-a-half-minutes on the opening 30 miles of Thursday’s 219-mile Al Ula-Hail test.

But the two-time World Rally champion recovered to take a slender lead at the 155-mile mark and ended up pulling out 2m56s over Al-Attiyah over the remainder of the stage.

It means Sainz now has an enhanced advantage of 5m59s in the general classification as the rally nears its halfway point.

Stephane Peterhansel lost three minutes in his X-raid Buggy with a puncture and ended up 6m11s adrift of his team-mate at the end of the stage.

He now trails Sainz by 17m53s overall but holds a comfortable third place ahead of Yazeed Al-Rajhi (Toyota), who consolidated fourth by finishing in the same position on the stage.

Orlando Terranova holds fifth in the best of the X-raid Mini 4x4s, ahead of Matthieu Serradori’s Century and Giniel de Villiers’ factory Toyota.

Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso notched up the second top-10 finish of his Dakar career as he came home seventh, 12m23s behind fellow countryman Sainz.

The Toyota driver still trails by more than three hours overall following his costly accident on Monday’s second stage.

Leading stage five times

Pos Class Driver Team Car Gap
1 C Carlos Sainz Bahrain JCW X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 3h52m01.s
2 C Nasser Al-Attiyah Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 2m56.s
3 C Stephane Peterhansel Bahrain JCW X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 6m11.s
4 C Yazeed Al-Rajhi Overdrive Toyota Toyota 8m29.s
5 C Orlando Terranova X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 8m52.s
6 C Giniel de Villiers Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 11m46.s
7 C Fernando Alonso Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 12m23.s
8 C Yasir Saeidan Race World Team Mini/BMW 12m39.s
9 C Jakub Przygonski Orlen X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 12m47.s
10 C Mathieu Serradori SRT Racing Century/? 17m49.s

Overall classification

Pos Class Driver Team Car Gap
1 C Carlos Sainz Bahrain JCW X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 19h04m13.s
2 C Nasser Al-Attiyah Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 5m59.s
3 C Stephane Peterhansel Bahrain JCW X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 17m53.s
4 C Yazeed Al-Rajhi Overdrive Toyota Toyota 31m39.s
5 C Orlando Terranova X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 32m05.s
6 C Mathieu Serradori SRT Racing Century/? 44m44.s
7 C Giniel de Villiers Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 46m26.s
8 C Bernhard Ten Brinke Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 1h04m54.s
9 C Yasir Saeidan Race World Team Mini/BMW 1h43m04.s
10 C Jerome Pelichet Raidlynx Optimus/MD 2h11m07.s
11 C Ronan Chabot Overdrive Toyota Toyota 2h12m19.s
12 C Pierre Lachaume PH-Sport Peugeot 2h18m13.s
13 C Wei Han Geely Auto Shell Lubricant Team Hanwei/Geely 2h29m08.s
14 C Fernando Alonso Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 3h11m50.s
15 C Jakub Przygonski Orlen X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 6h46m43.s



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