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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00:00I'm afraid of the sand, it's not good. I don't know how it's going to carry you.
00:09Look! Oh! It's not true! It's not true!
00:15It doesn't matter.
00:17Damn!
00:19On the other hand, you have to get out of your way.
00:21Yes, if I can.
00:30It's a big disappointment.
01:01I wish the team the best. Unfortunately, we could not help them anymore.
01:05He's very good.
01:07This year, it couldn't have been worse.
01:30I can't find anything in the book. I don't know what the warning is.
02:0014 minutes off the pace. His second spot overall is slip-sliding away.
02:07Meanwhile, Sunderprice have got going again, but they only managed 18th.
02:21After watching Yazeed start, His Royal Highness boarded a helicopter and followed Seb Loeb.
02:26Incredibly, this is the footage that Prince Khalid himself filmed on his phone.
02:32Loeb proving just how treacherous this stage could be after just 12k.
02:36The Dacia Sandrider suffered significant damage, but remarkably, after a bit of bodywork adjustment,
02:42he was back on his way without losing too much time.
02:45If you had told me I'd be leading the rally after three days, I wouldn't have believed you, said Hank Lartigan.
03:00But Hank's strength set him apart again, a solid 12th, keeping him at the top.
03:08While it seemed Loeb had got away with his crash earlier on, it actually wasn't the case.
03:16It was a good stage though for Nasser Al-Attiyah. The Qatari's thoughts were for Loeb.
03:20He says it's very important to get all three Dacia Sandriders to the end of this Dakar.
03:28Speaking of that, Cristina Gutierrez and her mechanical whiz of a co-driver Pablo Moreno
03:33were soon on the scene to lend a hand, but despite their efforts, Loeb dropped to 16th overall.
03:38A day after colliding with his team-mate, Saud Variawa became the youngest ever stage winner.
03:42I definitely knew we were flying. We put a lot of the other competitors under pressure in the rocks
03:48and then they had punches, so it cleared some air up for us. It was a really good drive on our side.
03:54The 48-hour Krono was a struggle for Gerlain Chicharit, but he stormed back today,
03:59grabbing his second second place in the Dakar.
04:01After the rocky part, we pushed. We drove as fast as we could and for the moment, we stick to the plan.
04:08Sef Kintero was the youngest ever cars winner at the Dakar for all of two days.
04:12He lost that accolade today, but still finished third.
04:17In the end, it was just over an hour lost for Sef Kintero,
04:20but he was still the youngest ever to win the Dakar.
04:22In the end, it was just over an hour lost for Sef Kintero, but he was still the youngest ever to win the Dakar.
04:28In the end, it was just over an hour lost for Sef Kintero, but he was still the youngest ever to win the Dakar.
04:34Variawa said his Dakar objective was to feature in the top three on some of the stages.
04:39He's now already done that in two out of four.
04:42Latigan now leads Nasser and Ekstrom.
04:53The beginning of this Dakar has been tough.
05:00That's Dakar for you. We just got to go out there and give it our best.
05:03That's Dakar for you. We just got to go out there and give it our best.
05:05Could Daniel Sanders pull a Stefan Pederhanssen and win four stages in a row, like Mr. Dakar did in 97?
05:10Could Daniel Sanders pull a Stefan Pederhanssen and win four stages in a row, like Mr. Dakar did in 97?
05:11Sadly not, he finished 22nd.
05:13Everything was going good, felt really good. Navigation was going really good this morning.
05:16I did all the difficult stuff and my tablet stopped working,
05:21so I couldn't navigate and then the guys get lost.
05:25One rider goes one way and then one goes the other way,
05:28so you don't know what to do when you don't have a cap.
05:31I picked the wrong person to follow today.
05:35Tosca Serena was another man who had a bit of trouble, dropping to fifth overall.
05:40Before he finished, I did a mistake of navigation and the guys behind us caught us.
05:48Skyler Howells had a slow start to the week with a 10th place in the prologue,
05:51but the fan favorite is roaring back now.
05:55I ended up finding the good way and hitting all the waypoints
05:58and I think the other guys ended up getting lost a little bit.
06:01It looks like a really positive stage for me.
06:05I didn't do a perfect job, I still did a good job.
06:09Last year's victor, Ricky Brabeck, kept up his consistent form, top eight every race day
06:14and runner-up this afternoon, that took him back up to fourth.
06:19Only one real story today though, and it is a great one.
06:22Lorenzo Santolino brought home a first victory for Xerco since Michal Meche in Peru in 2019.
06:28Santolino tore up the track on today's shortened special, winning by over four minutes.
06:36I think it's also very special for Xerco.
06:39In the end, it's a small factory, we've been improving every year
06:42and today was the opportunity to fight for a stage.
06:46I hope everyone who likes Xerco is happy for it.
06:52The standings have a very different look about them this evening,
06:55as just two minutes separate the top three and eight minutes the top five.
06:59It's still KTM-Honda hero, but as usual, it seems like bikes may well go down to the wire.
07:06In Rally 2, the top three overall were the top three on the special.
07:09Third, Michal Docherty, showing no ill effects of a nasty crash on the first day.
07:16In second, Tobias Ebster, the reigning champion in Original by Motul,
07:20and it turns out he's pretty decent when he has full assistance as well.
07:26But back in the lead, 19-year-old wonderkid Edgar Canett.
07:29The Spaniard has been top two every day so far.
07:47He may have had a narrow but disappointing defeat yesterday,
07:50but Argentinian Nicolas Cavigliasso is galloping away with the challenger category.
07:55Two seconds behind Paul Spearing's on the chrono,
07:58but he reversed it to win stage three by 14 seconds.
08:02These rugged buggies are perfectly designed for these twisty,
08:05turning obstacle courses through the desert sandscape.
08:09It may have been a close couple of days, but Cavigliasso and his wife,
08:12Pertigarini's lead is nearly 20 minutes.
08:19T4s to the fore.
08:22Francisco Lopez-Contardo, already a triple Dakar winner in the side-by-sides,
08:26alongside navigator Juan Latrach, himself a double champion,
08:30brought Kaman their first victory of the year, and Choleco a 24th of his career.
08:37On board with defending champion Xavier de Soltre,
08:40second on the stage, but consolidating his overall lead.
08:44The Frenchman and teammate Brock Hegger are over an hour ahead of the chasing pack.
08:52The trucks took shocks over the rocks today,
08:54but Alex Lopres rolled up his socks, avoided any major knocks,
08:57and took the stage win, the wily old fox.
09:01A look at the clocks shows Martin Maciek's lead is down to just 3 minutes 30,
09:05a brox.
09:11It's been a hell of a ride out here already.
09:13Next up, an 843km marathon stage over volcanic terrain, and the race may well erupt.
09:19Remember, you can watch an hour-long programme wherever you are,
09:22through your local broadcaster.
09:23We can't make these videos longer for legal and rights reasons,
09:26but if you do want to come back, I'd be very happy to see you here again tomorrow.
09:30Catch you later, rally fans.