The 47th edition of the Dakar has set a date for the world's rally-raiders in Saudi Arabia from 3 to 17 January.
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00:00Can you hear me?
00:10Hold on!
00:18Where are we going?
00:30Ah, I think close to the fire, no?
00:33I don't want to be by the fire because then it'll be noisy.
00:38Okay, I need a tent.
00:39I don't know how to put a tent together.
00:41No idea what's going on.
00:43What the...
00:47There's more?
00:48I can open a Dakar stage but I can't build a tent.
00:51There's a hook.
00:52How come every time you take a breath, half the air comes back out?
00:55Breathe through your nose, buddy.
01:25...outside world.
01:28Proves that even in these days of professionalism and technology,
01:31there is still space, there is still time,
01:34for all of us to dream, to dare, to live.
01:38Sneaking under the stars and...
01:40Ooh, it's cool.
01:42Just a different experience, part of the adventure,
01:44but ready to get back to the blue act tonight.
01:49Cold night.
01:51Not so comfortable.
01:55It was fun to hang out around the campfire with all the guys
01:59and fun chrono stage.
02:01Long, demanding, but good time.
02:0422 riders reached Bivouac E last night,
02:06meaning they'd gone a staggering 626km
02:10and been in the saddle for around eight hours.
02:12For those guys, 321km of the special remained
02:15before they could relax, unwind, shower, rest and recover.
02:22They left the brake zone in the same order as they arrived,
02:25meaning Tosha Sharina led out,
02:27and while he was soon overtaken by Adrien Van Beveren,
02:30he got ahead again when VBA had problems in the dunes.
02:35The Frenchman was still fourth on the stage.
02:41It was tricky. To be fair, the dunes were really soft
02:44and it was not easy to open.
02:46I opened, I think, most of the stage,
02:49but the result doesn't show it, you know.
02:53Tosha finished third, but how's our friend Skyler getting on?
02:56The Utah cowboy had a great stage two rodeo,
02:59galloping home second fastest.
03:02Man, I'm pretty smoked.
03:04The terrain was really, really difficult.
03:06These dunes were extremely soft and the camel grass was crazy.
03:10Lots of rocks and then high speed.
03:12I mean, it had just about everything that you could throw at us.
03:15I enjoyed the format of the chrono stage,
03:17but I'm tired.
03:19Daniel Sanders continued his 100% record at Dakar 47
03:23with the first three in a row since Joan Barrera in 2017.
03:27Riding together was pretty funny, I think.
03:29At one point, we all got stuck on a soft dune and looked across.
03:32There was about 15 of us just stuck in the dunes, so it was pretty funny.
03:36If everything's going perfectly for Sanders,
03:38the same can't be said for double Dakar champion Kevin Benavidez,
03:41who's returning from a serious injury.
03:44I started more or less in front,
03:47and then the top riders started to pass me.
03:50And, you know, that is really hard, because I know how to do it.
03:54I know the speed, because always I was there fighting and everything.
03:58And to feel that right now I can't,
04:01it's also really, like...
04:03For the mind, you know, it's, like, heavy.
04:06Haus and Branch are 12 minutes behind Sanders,
04:0812 seconds between second and fourth,
04:10and number 12, Bradley Cox, was 12th fastest.
04:12That's four 12s, which makes 48.
04:14Crow, no way!
04:16The hardest two days I've ever had on a motorcycle.
04:18It was a long, long two days.
04:20No such domination in Rally 2.
04:22We've had a different winner on each stage.
04:24Today, top spot went to Michael Doherty,
04:26ten minutes quicker than Edgar Canett,
04:28and 17 minutes up on Jacob Argebrite.
04:30Canett leads overall now,
04:32and it looks like a fight between him, Doherty and Tobias Ebster.
04:36The top four are all KTMs.
04:39Like the bikes, the top cars also made it to Bivouac-E last night,
04:4327 of them.
04:47Ready for the second part of the marathon.
04:50Let's pack it and let's go.
04:56We have, like, 300 kilometres left.
04:59Everyone is in a one-minute interval,
05:01so we're going to do it in one minute.
05:05Everyone is in a one-minute interval,
05:07so I guess we just have to bring it to the end.
05:12I'm trying to keep my car in good shape.
05:14I like my new baby.
05:17Carlos had plenty of problems yesterday.
05:22Today's first victims of this challenging surface,
05:25Gerland Tschischeritz and Alex Winok.
05:28We hit one car that was, I don't know, wrong place,
05:33in the dust that we didn't see,
05:35and it damaged quite a lot the car in the front.
05:39Dust, competitors, rocks and bushes
05:41weren't the only difficulties on the way back to Bischer.
05:44It was circle time in the desert,
05:46as the cars struggled to find their way home.
05:49After that big roll yesterday,
05:51today was a day of survival for defending champion Carlos Sainz,
05:54and he only lost a few minutes on stage 2B.
05:57But the damage was done yesterday to both his car and scratch time.
06:00It means El Matador is an hour and a half off the lead.
06:05Today's spectacular smash-up award goes to former champion Nani Roma.
06:08This looks just like me getting stuck
06:10halfway through building an IKEA wardrobe,
06:12having lost the instructions.
06:16So who did come out of this two-day dune-fest unscathed?
06:19Well, Nasser Al-Attiyah was in the fight,
06:21and he's loving his Dacia.
06:23Remember, he already won the Rallye du Maroc in it
06:25at the end of last year.
06:29Last 50 km, we had a puncture,
06:31and then we had an issue with the power steering.
06:35It was very difficult to finish.
06:39Seth Quintero had been concerned
06:41that winning his first special would harm his chances in the second,
06:44and he was right.
06:4516th for the young American, 49 minutes back.
06:49Sayoud Varyawa had impressed on stage 1,
06:51but today he collided with teammate Genel De Villiers.
06:55Now both cars are broken.
06:58And, you know, we're just trying to see what we can do,
07:01but for the moment it looks quite bad.
07:03Quite bad? I'm pretty sure the insurance company
07:06will use a different phrase, Ginni.
07:08Best performance on stage 2A, homeboy Yazeed Al-Raji,
07:11and he carried on where he left off in his backyard,
07:13enjoying himself, but had to settle for second.
07:16And that's because Rokas Pachuska,
07:18in his first year driving an Ultimate,
07:20snatched a first win, recovering time after an issue at refueling.
07:25It's now official that we won the stage, you know,
07:28first time in the Ultimate class,
07:30and to win the 48th promo, it's a big challenge.
07:34Henk Latterken leads overall,
07:36almost five minutes ahead of Al-Raji.
07:38Sebastian Loeb recovered 25 minutes today.
07:45Nicolas Cavigliasso dominated in the T3s
07:47on the first half of this special,
07:49having won stage 1.
07:50But if he thought he was going to have everything his own way,
07:53he was wrong.
07:54The Argentine did finish fastest,
07:56but a three-minute penalty handed victory
07:58to Dutchman Paul Speerings by two seconds.
08:08Right to 235.
08:13Nice.
08:14Left.
08:16Spaniard Pau Navarro is less than half an hour
08:19off the lead in the standings.
08:27Rookie Corbin Leverton is in the top three,
08:30but Cavigliasso retains the overall lead.
08:35Brock Hegger took the Krono in the SSVs,
08:37a second win for the rookie who had already won the prologue.
08:40His gap to defending champ Xavier de Soultre
08:42was seven and a half minutes,
08:43but the Frenchman leads overall.
08:46There's a big gap back to third.
08:49Martin Maciek won the Krono for the second year running,
08:52but if you thought it was easy for the trucks, think again.
08:56We got stuck three times.
08:58We couldn't climb the dunes because it was so soft,
09:01and we had to take care of the truck
09:03because I destroyed the suspension and spring as well.
09:08So, yeah, lots of stuff, man, lots of stuff.
09:10He leads compatriot Lopreich by just under nine minutes.
09:16After problems for the reigning champion in the cars,
09:19the rain itself is looking threatening.
09:21Forecast storms plus the extreme difficulties
09:23for everyone over the past few days
09:25have led the organisers to reduce the third special
09:28from 4.96 to 3.27.
09:30It should be a super-fast fifth day of competition.
09:32And I'll be back tomorrow.
09:34Why don't we meet here again after the stage?
09:36I'll buy you a coffee.
09:40See you tomorrow.