Dakar
Dakar
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The fifth edition of the Dakar in Saudi Arabia promises to push man and machine harder than any of the previous ones.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:09 From above, the Dakar terrain can look flat.
00:12 But with so many bumps, dunes, mountains, and valleys,
00:16 it is up and down as a Ferris wheel.
00:19 And today, it was Buehler's day off.
00:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:26 For me, yeah, I crashed in the stones at the beginning.
00:29 And the road book was completely bent.
00:31 And it was impossible to navigate like this.
00:34 Sebastian wasn't the only competitor
00:36 to experience the roller coaster of desert racing today.
00:39 We saw plenty of big names come off or over, down, or stuck.
00:45 Dan was just surviving till the end.
00:50 It was not the best first stage.
00:56 After Friday's prologue, the riders all gathered.
00:59 And while it sounds like they're playing a leisurely evening
01:02 game of bingo, in fact, the leaders
01:03 were choosing start positions for today.
01:06 Eyes down for a full house.
01:07 Guys, when in February is Valentine's Day?
01:10 14.
01:11 Number 14.
01:13 14, please.
01:15 Number 14 as well.
01:18 14.
01:19 I choose 15.
01:21 15, OK.
01:22 Number 17.
01:23 Number 17.
01:26 I don't really know how this works.
01:28 So I just want to go first.
01:30 I'm sure they are all going to want to go ahead of me, right?
01:33 So Mason Klein right here, number one position.
01:37 So Mason Klein was to lead out at 7.45 AM.
01:41 And the riders warmed up.
01:42 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
01:47 Dancing a little, Pablito.
01:48 But there's a tough day in the saddle.
01:50 I think it is going to be a hard day for the first stage.
01:54 A lot of rocky sections.
01:55 But yeah, keep focus for today.
01:57 Getting the real Dakar business underway then,
01:59 with 414 tough kilometers from Al Ula to Al Hanakiya.
02:04 Snaking around volcanoes and mineral deposits,
02:06 we're expecting drama.
02:08 Klein's Covey made the first tracks.
02:10 The idea of opening the first stage at Dakar is really cool.
02:18 So yeah, in the end, no regrets, because now I
02:22 can say I've done it.
02:23 Something ticked off the bucket list for the youngster then,
02:26 as he rode his way through the lumps
02:27 and into third on the day.
02:29 But we had some big early casualties in the bikes.
02:34 Hero Motorsports' Joaquin Rodriguez,
02:41 who won stage three last year, crashed 82K into the special.
02:45 He was airlifted to hospital.
02:47 And winner of the prologue and overnight leader,
02:50 Tosca Charena hit the deck at kilometer 240,
02:53 hurt his arm badly enough that he withdrew from the rally.
02:55 I don't know.
02:59 I think I hit something with the rear wheel.
03:02 And I crashed it slow, but I broke my wrist.
03:07 Honda's Nino Girodino, who won the first stage
03:10 of the Dakar, is the only one to have
03:12 a chance to win the Dakar.
03:14 I broke my wrist.
03:16 Honda lose Tosch, but they still have the Tash.
03:19 Toscha's out.
03:20 And Girod.
03:22 Man.
03:23 Yeah, I knew it.
03:24 These guys were really juicing it today.
03:26 These guys were going really, really, really fast.
03:29 Not just them, Skyler, but Michael Doherty,
03:31 who was leading the day in Rally 2,
03:33 was also airlifted to Medina.
03:36 Ross Branch always has a smile on his face.
03:38 And more than ever today, he came in quickest.
03:40 Nice and long day.
03:41 Really challenging.
03:42 Starting further back, the navigation was tough.
03:44 But I enjoyed it.
03:46 It was good fun.
03:47 Whilst leading the special, Ross stopped to help Sharena.
03:50 And afterwards, the time he spent with his rival
03:52 was credited back to him.
03:54 I love how this sport encourages good sportsmanship.
03:56 And just behind Ross came Ricky.
04:01 Today was survival for sure.
04:08 A lot of stones.
04:10 The bike didn't touch the ground.
04:11 So I think the mechanics are going to be happy.
04:13 The bike didn't touch the ground.
04:14 Confirmation that Braebec is flying at this.
04:17 A ninth Dakar for the overall winner in 2020.
04:28 Branch's win puts him on top in the overall,
04:31 with Ricky and Mason just behind.
04:41 In the quads, the big story.
04:42 The top two overall in both 2022 and '23.
04:45 Alexandre Giroud and Francisco Moreno
04:48 both lost more than half an hour.
04:50 Marcelo Medeiros took a ninth Dakar stage win.
04:53 It's really stressful for everyone.
05:00 Stage two last year was catastrophic
05:02 for a lot of drivers with all the punctures.
05:05 And so it proved again on day two this year.
05:08 Last year, I went so slowly over the stones
05:11 that I lost 15 minutes and then punctured anyway.
05:13 It looks like the same terrain,
05:17 so it'll be about managing tires rather than full attack.
05:21 Me and Sam, I think we are the stronger team in Dakar.
05:31 It's very important to finish the first week of Dakar.
05:37 The guys in front of Stéphane aren't used to opening.
05:40 We can't just blindly follow the tracks
05:41 because we could run into trouble.
05:43 How are you going to manage with it?
05:50 Can you help us?
05:51 Because you fly with the helicopter,
05:53 you can move all the stone.
05:54 Nasser Al-Attiyah, the Qatari king.
06:02 A fair few flats and that sinking feeling.
06:06 Hello.
06:07 Seb Loehr, the pretender to the throne.
06:12 Plenty of punctures and wheel switching.
06:15 Even Mr. Dakar himself, Stéphane Petterhansel.
06:23 Holy tires, they all struggled today.
06:34 I don't know.
06:35 I think I don't have the right way to drive such a heavy car through the stones.
06:39 I am really happy to finish today because it was very tricky.
06:45 It's hell. It's undrivable.
06:47 I don't know what speed we went at.
06:49 We drove on the big stones and we just hoped not to puncture.
06:52 But it's OK.
06:54 We're here and that's what matters.
06:55 It was worse still for Guy Bottrel.
06:59 His Toyota really bashed up when it crossed the line.
07:02 The South African had been in the top three, but came in seventh.
07:06 So who did make the day's podium?
07:08 Well, whoever avoided the ruptured wheels, it seems.
07:10 The experienced Genial de Villiers is completing his 21st Dakar.
07:15 He won in 2009, has never abandoned and never finished outside the top 10.
07:19 Third today.
07:21 Also with a fair amount of Dakar know-how, triple champion Carlos Sainz.
07:25 Muy bien, si señor.
07:27 Sainz second.
07:28 Sainz.
07:29 But who would have expected this?
07:34 Guillaume de Mevius is attempting the Dakar in a car for the first time,
07:37 having been a T3 driver until he got the call from Toyota.
07:41 Winning his first special in the T1+ is some way to start his campaign.
07:45 It was a nice start.
07:48 I'm pretty surprised, to be honest.
07:49 We drove smartly and calmly.
07:51 We didn't puncture.
07:52 And that was the key today.
07:54 But I'm surprised to be so well placed.
07:56 It is de Mevius then who leads overall with Sainz and de Villiers just behind.
08:01 But that is not a familiar look to our overall classification.
08:05 In the Challengers, yesterday's winner Eric Gocciao was looking strong
08:12 until he suffered a puncture.
08:13 But he and co-driver Aureol managed to limit their losses.
08:16 And with a big surge in the final six waypoints,
08:18 back-to-back stage wins for the boy wonder.
08:20 Unsurprisingly, the winner of the day is the driver
08:26 who, surprisingly, Eric then tops the charts overall in the T3s.
08:30 And it's his dad and his uncle in second and third.
08:33 In T4s, a win for rookie Brazilian Rodrigo Varela,
08:36 who also now leads overall.
08:38 For the second day running, the top truck dog was Yanis Van Kasteren,
08:48 who said it was a perfect day as his crew were able to gain time
08:52 by cutting corners over the biggest rocks.
08:55 [MUSIC PLAYING]
08:58 Well, the old cliche goes that you couldn't win the race this early,
09:07 but maybe you could lose it.
09:09 If it was puncture hell today, it's dune heaven tomorrow.
09:13 But if you want to reach the end of the Dakar,
09:15 you have to survive to drive.
09:17 Well, you have to drive to survive.
09:20 But forget about those playboys.
09:22 This is Rally Raid reality.
09:25 See you tomorrow.
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