The seventh leg of the 2020 Dakar Rally, from Riyadh to Wadi Al Dawasir, saw Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (both ESP) pick up their third stage win in the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy. In doing so, they extended their lead in the overall standings. St\u00e9phane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR) finished third in their MINI JCW Buggy.<\/p>\n
Three MINI John Cooper Works Rally crews made it into the top ten: Jakub \u201cKuba\u201d Przygonski (POL) and Timo Gottschalk (GER) finished eighth, ahead of Orlando Terranova and Ronnie Graue (both ARG) in ninth place. They were followed in tenth place by Yasir Seaidan (KSA) and Alexey Kuzmich (RUS).<\/p>\n
Sainz lost time at the start of the stage and found himself back in eighth place at one point. However, he fought back to take the lead with roughly 200 kilometres remaining and never looked back. \u201cThe pace was very high today,\u201d said the Spaniard. \u201cWe were able to go full-throttle a few times today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victory on day six meant Peterhansel and Fiuza had to open stage seven. Despite this, they were constantly among the leading group and were third fastest at the finish. \u201cToday\u2019s stage was really fast, over 550 kilometres in less than four hours,\u201d said Peterhansel. \u201cYou have to be particularly focussed at those kind of speeds, as even a small mistake can mean it is all over. We had no problems with the navigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Przygonski was 16th onto today\u2019s stage and set a furious pace from the word go. \u201cI think we were at full throttle for 90% of the time today,\u201d said the Pole. \u201cThe route was really simple and not particularly demanding technically. We were able to make good progress from the back and overtake a few cars.\u201d<\/p>\n
Terranova and Graue tightened their grip on fifth place in the overall standings with ninth place on stage seven. \u201cToday\u2019s stage was pretty easy \u2013 both for the driver and the navigator,\u201d said Terranova. \u201cI picked up a few issues with my neck on the leg before the rest day so I need to get on top of them as soon as possible, in order to be able to push hard again during the last days.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a while, Seaidan and Kuzmich surprised all for a while. The MINI JCW Rally crew was extremely fast midway through the stage and actually topped the times. \u201cThe stage was quick, but with a lot of dunes,\u201d said the Saudi. \u201cWe were very good at the start, but unfortunately we then suffered three punctures. Despite that, I am still happy with today\u2019s result.\u201d Tenth place on today\u2019s stage keeps them in ninth place overall.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s race day is overshadowed by the death of Paulo Gon\u00e7alves. The X-raid team mourns the loss of a true Dakar legend \u2013 our deepest sympathy goes above all to his family and friends.<\/p>\n
The teams remain in Wadi Al Dawasir tomorrow, while the drivers complete a loop around the bivouac. After 132 kilometres of liaison stage, they face 477 kilometres against the clock on the eighth special stage of this year\u2019s rally. They then travel 107 kilometres back to the bivouac.<\/p>\n
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Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Result SS7*<\/strong> Dakar Rally\u00a0\u2013 Overall result after SS7*<\/strong> The seventh leg of the 2020 Dakar Rally, from Riyadh to Wadi Al Dawasir, saw Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (both ESP) pick up their third stage win in the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy. In doing so, they extended their lead in the overall standings. St\u00e9phane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR) finished third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3778,"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-3979","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\/3979","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=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 4h 16m 11s<\/strong>
\n2. N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) \/ M. Baumel (FRA) Toyota \u2013 4h 18m 23s
\n3.\u00a0S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 4h 19m 04s<\/strong>
\n4. B. Ten Brinke (NDL) \/ T. Colsoul (BEL) Toyota \u2013 4h 19m 09s
\n5. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 4h 23m 47s
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\n8. J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 27m 52s<\/strong>
\n9. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 28m 15s<\/strong>
\n10. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 29m 43s<\/strong>
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\n15. V. Zala (LTU) \/ S. Jurgelenas (LTU) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 40m 22s<\/strong>
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\n17. D. Krotov (RUS) \/ D. Tsyro (UKR) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 4h 42m 58s<\/strong>
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\n20. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 4h 45m 08s<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. C. Sainz (ESP) \/ L. Cruz (ESP) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 27h 49m 14s<\/strong>
\n2. N. Al-Attiyah (QAT) \/ M. Baumel (FRA) Toyota \u2013 27h 59m 14s
\n3. S. Peterhansel (FRA) \/ P. Fiuza (POR) MINI JCW Buggy \u2013 28h 08m 27s<\/strong>
\n4. Y. Al-Rajhi (KSA) \/ K. Zhiltsov (RUS) Toyota \u2013 28h 33m 38s
\n5. O. Terranova (ARG) \/ B. Graue (ARG) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 28h 45m 12s<\/strong>
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\n9. Y. Seaidan (KSA) \/ A. Kuzmich (RUS) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 30h 02m 57s<\/strong>
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\n16. A. Dorosinskiy (RUS) \/ O. Uperenko (LVA) MINI ALL4 Racing \u2013 31h 46m 00s<\/strong>
\n17.\u00a0D. Krotov (RUS) \/ D. Tsyro (UKR) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 31h 48m 24s<\/strong>
\n18. V. Zala (LTU) \/ S. Jurgelenas (LTU) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 32h 25m 23s<\/strong>
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\n28.\u00a0J. Przygonski (POL) \/ T. Gottschalk (GER) MINI JCW Rally \u2013 36h 24m 48s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"