Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (both ESP) in the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy extended their overall lead with another win on the stage from Al-`Ula to Hail. Their team-mates in the Bahrain JCW X-raid Team, St\u00e9phane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR), ended the stage in third place in their MINI JCW Buggy.<\/p>\n
Today was also a good day for the crews in the MINI JCW Rally. Orlando \u201cOrly\u201d Terranova and Bernardo \u201cRonnie\u201d Graue finished fifth on the stage and occupy the same position in the overall standings. Yasir Seaidan (KSA) and his Russian co-driver Alexey Kuzmich came home eighth, followed by Jakub \u201cKuba\u201d Przygonski (POL) and Timo Gottschalk (GER).<\/p>\n
A puncture initially saw Sainz drop back early in the stage. However, he soon fought his way back into the lead. He led at the 250-kilometre waypoint and was never caught thereafter. \u201cWe started well but then, unfortunately, we had to change a tyre,\u201d said Sainz. \u201cThe final part of the stage was difficult: fast, but uneven with a lot of camel grass. This terrain suits our Buggy, which was superb again today. We were also able to extend our overall lead by three minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Third place on today\u2019s leg sees Peterhansel and Fiuza tighten their grip on third place in the overall standings. The duo showed great pace, but repeatedly lost time due to two punctures. \u201cWe had a puncture after about 80 kilometres and had to stop,\u201d the Frenchman reported. \u201cThere was a huge amount of camel grass on the second part of the stage. The impacts affect man and machine. Unfortunately, I picked up a slow puncture in this section. Carlos caught us here and we drove to the finish together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seaidan and Kuzmich bounced back from yesterday\u2019s misfortune with a very fine performance today in their MINI JCW Rally. They were actually running in the top three for the first half of the stage. However, they lost some time in the second half of the leg and eventually came home in a respectable eighth place. Behind them, in ninth place, were Przygonski and Gottschalk. \u201cIt was a tough stage with a lot of rocks, dunes and camel grass,\u201d said the Pole. \u201cWe pushed as hard as we could without taking too many risks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomorrow\u2019s route takes the competitors to the Saudi capital Riyadh, where they will have a rest day on Saturday. Before then, however, they face a long day: after a 177-kilometre liaison stage, the drivers must complete 477 kilometres against the clock. After that, they still have another 177 kilometres to the bivouac in Riyadh. Prior to the event, the organisers announced that day six is one of the hardest on this year\u2019s Dakar.<\/p>\n
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Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Result SS5*<\/strong> Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Overall result after SS5*<\/strong> Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (both ESP) in the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy extended their overall lead with another win on the stage from Al-`Ula to Hail. Their team-mates in the Bahrain JCW X-raid Team, St\u00e9phane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR), ended the stage in third place in their MINI JCW Buggy. Today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-en","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 3h 52m 01s<\/strong>
\n2. N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) \/ M. Baumel (FRA) Toyota \u2013 3h 54m 57s
\n3. S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 3h 58m 12s<\/strong>
\n4. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 4h 00m 30s
\n5. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 00m 53s<\/strong>
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\n8. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 04m 40s<\/strong>
\n9. J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 04m 48s<\/strong>
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\n18. D. Krotov (RUS) \/ D. Tsyro (UKR) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 30m 43s<\/strong>
\n19. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 4h 31m 05s<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 19h 04m 13s<\/strong>
\n2. N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) \/ M. Baumel (FRA) Toyota \u2013 19h 10m 12s
\n3. S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 19h 22m 06s<\/strong>
\n4. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 19h 35m 52s
\n5. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 19h 36m 18s<\/strong>
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\n9. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 20h 47m 17s<\/strong>
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\n16.\u00a0D. Krotov (RUS) \/ D. Tsyro (UKR) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 21h 54m 12s<\/strong>
\n17. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 22h 03m 52s<\/strong>
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\ntba.\u00a0J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 25h 50m 56s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"