has reclaimed the general lead on the 2026 Dakar Rally along with his first stage win of the occasion, main a Dacia 1-2 from team-mate .
Within the 326km of operating from Ha’il to Riyadh, Al-Attiyah grabbed the stage lead round one-third into the day’s motion from Joao Ferreira. Regardless of challenges from Seth Quintero after which Loeb, the five-time Dakar Rally winner took the stage win by 2m26s from his Dacia team-mate.
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Coupled with ’s tough day for Toyota, Al-Attiyah has additionally gained the general lead. The 55-year-old was marked because the digital total chief on the halfway level, the primary time he had led because the finish of the second stage, along with his margin of benefit settling at 6m10s over Toyota’s Lategan.
Loeb’s late assault propelled him from eighth to second on the stage occasions over the second half of the day, marking his first Dakar Rally stage podium since 2024.
That compelled Quintero into third for the Toyota W2RC squad, with team-mate placing in a powerful cost to take fourth on the stage. That shuffled early-stage chief Ferreira again to fifth place for the South African arm of the Toyota effort.
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Ford’s up-and-down Dakar Rally continued with and sixth and seventh respectively having not often featured on the sharp finish through the stage checkpoints.
#227 Ford M-Sport Ford: Nani Roma, Alex Haro Bravo
#227 Ford M-Sport Ford: Nani Roma, Alex Haro Bravo
Mathieu Serradori claimed eighth on the stage for Century Racing, forward of Man Botterill for Toyota SA, with Energylandia Toyota’s Eryk Goczal rounding out the highest 10.
Heading into the remainder day, Dacia’s Al-Attiyah leads Lategan within the Toyota with a three-way producer struggle growing, as Roma leads a trio of Fords from team-mates Sainz and Mattia Ekstrom (thirteenth on Stage 6).
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Loeb has climbed to sixth total for Dacia due to his robust efficiency in Stage 6, overhauling Ford’s Mitch Guthrie who completed the stage in eleventh place having opened the highway after profitable the earlier stage.
Serradori, Goczal and (Dacia) full the highest 10 on the general leaderboard.
The 2026 Dakar Rally will get pleasure from its solely relaxation day on Saturday earlier than the motion resumes with Stage 7 on Sunday, which covers 462km of aggressive operating between Riyadh and Wadi Advert-Dawasir.
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