Nasser Al-Attiyah saved a very difficult day and remains in the lead after the seventh stage. Dakar rally. The Qatari Toyota driver passed the test following the cancellation of today’s race for these two categories, with no reference to the open track as well as motorcycles and quads. Al-Attiyah gave up for a few minutes compared to Saudi Yazeed Al-Rajhi (Overdrive Toyota), who was aware that today is not the day to take risks, given the improvised ‘half marathon’ announced by Dakar. only two hours of assistance at the end of the special event.
Al-Rajhi, the local idol, yes, he gave his all and crossed the finish line at 8:45 in sophomore, Lithuanian Zala and Hunter on Prodrive.. France’s Chicherit (GKC) came in third, while Al-Attiyah was almost 20′ behind, but again secured first place with Toyota against his closest rival, South African Lategan, with 1 hour and 1 minute total.
Another black day for Audi
Mattias Ekström, who led the provisional qualifying at km 196 with an 8′ lead over Guerlain Chicherit, stopped after a kilometer due to a technical incident. After the accidents of Carlos Sainz and Stéphane Peterhansel in the previous stage, Audi’s disaster continued today with its third driver Ekström. The one who broke the suspension of the RS Q e-tron E2 and squandered the brand’s last podium chances with four rings at this Dakar.
As if that wasn’t enough and it made sense, Carlos Sainz stopped to help Ekstrom and bid farewell to the battle for the stage’s victory. Still in the race with a 28h45 penalty, the Madrid man started at great speed, 68th in private, in search of partial wins that didn’t count for the overall classification, but when he saw the Swede try it, he had to stop to help him fix his car.