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Dakar rally: Top 10 in every category

9 January 2021 at 11:25
  • Adam Newton
  • Editor

The first week of the Dakar rally is over and the drivers are given a rest day in Saudi Arabia. A perfect moment to see which drivers are in the top ten in every category.

Motoren

Toby Price leads the motorbike standings. The first six stages lasted just over 24 hours in total for him. Kevin Benavides follows the Australian closely and is only two minutes and sixteen seconds behind with a time penalty of two minutes. Jose Ignacio Cornejo Florimo also manages to stay close to the top, he is just under three minutes behind.

  1. 1.       Toby Price – 24 hours, 8 min. 43 sec
  2. 2.       Kevin Benavides +0:02.16
  3. 3.       Jose Ignacio Cornejo Florimo +0:02.57
  4. 4.       Ross Branch +0:03.41
  5. 5.       Xavier de Soultrait +0:03.41
  6. 6.       Sam Sunderland +0:04.23
  7. 7.       Joan Barreda Bort +0:06.25
  8. 8.       Lorenzo Santolino +0:13.46
  9. 9.       Skyler Howes +0:15.12
  10. 10.   Pablo Quintanilla +0:15.13

Cars

Stephane Peterhansel leads the way in the car category, just five minutes ahead of Nasser Al-Attiyah. Last year's winner Carlos Sainz is 40 minutes behind the leader.

  1. 1.       Stéphane Peterhansel – 22 uur, 14 min. 3 sec
  2. 2.       Nasser Al-Attiyah - +0:05.53
  3. 3.       Carlos Sainz - +0:40.39
  4. 4.       Jakub Przygonski - +1:11.36
  5. 5.       Nani Roma - +1:36.55
  6. 6.       Brian Baragwanath - +1:50.32
  7. 7.       Vladimir Vasilyev - +2:05.47
  8. 8.       Sheikh Khalid  Al Qassimi - +2:07.21
  9. 9.       Giniel De Villiers - +2:12.12
  10. 10.   Martin Prokop - +2:29.07

Trucks

Russia dominates in the trucks. No other country can be found in the full top three. Dmitry Sotnikov has a lead of more than half an hour on fellow countryman Anton Shibalov. Airat Mardeev is about an hour behind in third position.

  1. 1.       Dmitry Sotnikov 24 uur, 26 min. 18 sec
  2. 2.       Anton Shibalov - + 0:37.34
  3. 3.       Airat Mardeev - +1:01.43
  4. 4.       Martin Macik - +1:02.22
  5. 5.       Ales Loprais - +1:07.00
  6. 6.       Aliaksei Vishneuski - +1:36.01
  7. 7.       Martin van den Brink - +2:10.29
  8. 8.       Ignacio Casale - +2:15.39
  9. 9.       Andrey Karginov - +2:24.20
  10. 10.   Martin Soltys - +2:32.45

SSV’s

In the SSVs, Aron Domzala has a small lead of less than a minute over close rival Austin Jones. Only 40 seconds sit between the two riders.

  1. 1.       Aron Domzala 27 uur, 4 min. 29 sec
  2. 2.       Austin Jones - +0:00.40
  3. 3.       Francisco Lopez Contardo - +0:35.51
  4. 4.       Sergei Kariakin -  +0:36.37
  5. 5.       Michal Goczal -  +0:36.50
  6. 6.       Reinaldo Varela - +1:25.11
  7. 7.       Saleh Alsaif - +1:30.08
  8. 8.       Jose Antonio Hinojo Lopez - +1:39.23
  9. 9.       Khalifa Al Attiyah - +2:19.54
  10. 10.   Lourenco Rosa - +2:49.26
  11. 11.   Kees Koolen - +2:49.28

38. Gert-Jan van der Valk - +147:45.34

Quads

Nicolas Cavigliasso has built up a considerable lead over the number two Manuel Andujar. The Argentinian is more than half an hour ahead of his fellow countryman. Alexandre Giroud closes the top three with a gap of 45 minutes.

  1. 1.       Nicolas Cavigliasso – 29 uur, 15 min. 55 sec
  2. 2.       Manuel Andujar - +0:33.18
  3. 3.       Alexandre Giroud - +00:45.22
  4. 4.       Giovanni Enrico - +0:50.19
  5. 5.       Pablo Copetti - +2:24.39
  6. 6.       Italo Pedemonte - +2:38.41
  7. 7.       Tomas Kubiena - +3.40.15
  8. 8.       Kamil Wisniewski - +4:07.51
  9. 9.       Romain Dutu - +5:00.39
  10. 10.    Toni Vignut - +5:42.31