{"id":7407,"date":"2026-01-15T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/carlos-sainz-finishes-third-on-the-eleventh-stage-of-the-dakar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:49:43","slug":"carlos-sainz-finishes-third-on-the-eleventh-stage-of-the-dakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/carlos-sainz-finishes-third-on-the-eleventh-stage-of-the-dakar\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz finishes third on the eleventh stage of the Dakar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stage 11 <\/strong>Bisha &gt; Al Henakiyah<br \/>\n<strong>Distance: <\/strong>346 timed kilometers<br \/>\n<strong>Stage position: <\/strong>second<br \/>\n<strong>Overall position: <\/strong>fifth<\/p>\n<p>The Dakar Rally reaches its final stretch with today&#8217;s eleventh stage, in which Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (Ford Raptor) have finished in third position of the day. In the 346 timed kilometers, Carlos and Lucas fought for the victory in the special stage, from which only 2 minutes and 26 seconds separated them from the victory. The victory went to their teammate, Mattias Ekstr\u00f6m.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlos Sainz:<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Mattias caught me on the rocks. He was going like crazy; I pulled away and got into his rhythm, and then I was in his dust the whole time. It was just rocks and dust&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow&#8217;s stage<br \/>\n<\/strong>Al Henakiyah &gt; Yanbu<br \/>\nLink &gt; 409 km &#8211; Special &gt; 311 km<br \/>\nIf the differences were not yet very important at the head of the race, there is still a chance to change things in such a varied itinerary. The fast tracks will give way to others that are much more winding and narrower. The riders will also have to venture into rivers where all sorts of surprises are to be expected, and the last dunes should not be underestimated. In short, it is still possible to make a big impact on the table, if you have all the qualities.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 11 Bisha &gt; Al Henakiyah Distance: 346 timed kilometers Stage position: second Overall position: fifth The Dakar Rally reaches its final stretch with today&#8217;s eleventh stage, in which Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz (Ford Raptor) have finished in third position of the day. In the 346 timed kilometers, Carlos and Lucas fought for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7400,"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":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407","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=7407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}