Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (Audi RS Q e-tron) continue to lead the Dakar Rally as the Saudi Arabian event enters its second part. Today was the longest stage of the race with 483 kilometers with a finish in the town of Al Duwadimi.<\/p>\n
Carlos Sainz finished fourth in the stage and lost ten and a half minutes to the winner of the day and his main rival in the fight for the final victory, Sebastien Loeb (Bahrain), after suffering a puncture in which he lost time. The Spanish drivers now have a lead of nineteen minutes over Loeb.<\/p>\n
Carlos Sainz:<\/em><\/strong> “Today was a very difficult stage, the longest of the Dakar with a lot of navigation and many stones at the end of the special. We also suffered a puncture. But we are here and we have overcome one of the most difficult stages that remain along with the penultimate day”. <\/em> Tomorrow’s stage Leaving the center of the country in a northerly direction, the special stage takes the competitors through sandy terrain, but without major obstacles. Then there is a surprising change of scenery that will demand maximum attention and precision in piloting. The sand gives way to pebbles, with a hard and broken route at some points. To protect their tires, they must roll towards Ha’il as if walking on eggshells. With prudence and delicacy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (Audi RS Q e-tron) continue to lead the Dakar Rally as the Saudi Arabian event enters its second part. Today was the longest stage of the race with 483 kilometers with a finish in the town of Al Duwadimi. Carlos Sainz finished fourth in the stage and lost ten and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-en","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Stage 8: AL DUWADIMI > HAIL Link > 220 km – Special > 458 km
\n<\/strong>This will be a day of contrasts and a slight drop in intensity. <\/p>\n