Update | Dakar Rally 2022 | Results Stage 5: Riyadh

Results Motorcycles

The motorcycles once again started before dawn. At 05:45 the first participants were at the start, this time accompanied by the cars, which started earlier than usual. Toby Price proved to be the fastest man of the day, taking his first win of the day. Former MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci, riding with a broken ankle, followed just four minutes behind the winner. Ross Branch completed the top three.

Update | Petrucci takes first win of the day after penalty Price

In the end, Price was able to claim the day's victory after he was given a six-minute time penalty for speeding on Thursday afternoon. Petrucci, who is competing as a rookie, won a stage of the famous Dakar Rally for the first time.

The complete top ten of the motorbikes is as follows:

1. Danilo Petrucci
2. Ross Branch +0.2
3. Jose Ignacio Cornejo Florimo +0.5
4. Ricky Brabec +1.32
5. Toby Price +1.46
6. Mason Klein +3.21
7. Andrew Short +4.29
8. Kevin Benavides +4.42
9. Skyler Howes +6.23
10. Martin Michek +7.07

Results Cars

Not only the motorcycles, but also the cars got off to an early start today. The category started two hours earlier than usual and also kicked off at 05:45, at the same time as the motorcycles. Here Henk Lategan closed the stage as the fastest. He did so ahead of Sebastien Loeb, who, with a second time, was almost three minutes ahead of classification leader Nasser Al-Attiyah. The stage was not without its problems for Lategan, who had to complete the last part of the stage with a door that could not be closed. However, that did not stop him from taking the day's victory.

The complete top ten in the cars is as follows:

1. Henk Lategan
2. Sebastien Loeb +1:58
3. Lucio Alvarez +2.10
4. Mathieu Serradori +2.24
5. Guerlain Chicherit +2.29
6. Jakub Przygonski +2.59
7. Giniel de Villiers +3.20
8. Nasser Al-Attiyah +4.29
9. Orlando Terranova +4.53
10. Christiaan Visser +6.27

Results Quads

The victory of the fifth stage in the quads is for Alexandre Giroud. Yesterday he finished second. Kamil Wisniewski followed in second place with a gap of over half an hour. Pablo Copetti finished third.

The complete top ten of the quads is as follows:

1. Alexandre Giroud 4:11.47

2. Kamil Wisniewski +30.12
3. Pablo Copetti +41
4. Zdenek Tuma +42.28
5. Manuel Andujar +43.51
6. Aleksandr Maksimov +51.57
7. Francisco Moreno +1:15.31
8. Sebastien Souday +1:24.55
9. Carlos Alejandro Verza +1:48.18
10. Alex Feliu +3:13.05

Results SSVs

Rodrigo Luppi de Oliveira was again the celebrated man after his victory on Wednesday. The Brazilian was over two and a half seconds faster than Mark Goczal, who came in fourth in the fourth stage. The difference between the top three and number four Austin Jones was four and a half seconds. Michal Goczal set the third fastest time on Wednesday, but had to settle for eighth the next day. Jerome de Sadeleer closed the top ten by coming in almost nineteen seconds later than the leader.

The complete top ten of the SSV's is as follows:

1. Rodrigo Luppi de Oliveira
2. Marek Goczal +2.33
3. Sergei Kariakin +4.10
4. Austin Jones +8.40
5. Rokas Baciuska +11.21
6. Gerard Farres Guell +11.32
7. Luis Portela Morais +14.07
8. Michal Goczal +15.33
9. Jeremy Poret +16.05
10. Jerome de Sadeleer +18.42

Results Trucks

Andrey Karginov was the big winner of the day in the trucks. He arrived almost four and a half seconds ahead of Dmitry Sotnikov, who finished third on Wednesday. Four Dutchmen are in the top ten on Thursday. While Janus van Kasteren finished in fifth place, almost nine seconds behind Karginov, Martin van den Brink took seventh place. Victor Willem Corne Versteijnen and Maurik van den Heuvel followed him with eighth and ninth places.

The complete top ten of the trucks is as follows:

1. Andrey Karginov
2. Dmitry Sotnikov +4.25
3. Anton Shibalov +6.47
4. Eduard Nikolaev +7.08
5. Janus van Kasteren +8.47
6. Ales Loprais +9.24
7. Martin van den Brink +15.31
8. Victor Willem Corne Versteijnen +17.39
9. Maurik van den Heuvel +19.29
10. Vaidotas Paskevicius +31.20