Al-Attiyah overtakes Sainz and wins the 5th Dakar special by car. Baciuska triumphs in UTVs

Toyota’s Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah overtook Carlos Sainz, who even with the extra power from the Audi was unable to triumph. In UTV, victory for Rokas Baciuska, while Seth Quintero triumphed in prototypes

5th special: Ha’il – Ha’il

Displacement: 270km

Time section: 373km

Total route: 643km

Nasser Al-Attiyah won a battle with Charles Sainz, Stephane Peterhansel and Sebastian Loeb and won the fifth special of Dakar 2023. The pilot of Totoia finished the 373 kilometers of the stage in 4h13min23, with just over two minutes ahead of Sainz, from Audi. The four-time Dakar champion had complained about the power advantage given to the German team by the Equivalence of Technologies, but the 8kW more given to Audi weren’t enough to beat the Qatari experience.

Partner of Sainz in the German team, the French Peterhansel completed in third position, with a time of 4h17min07s. Yazeed Al-Rajhiby Overdrive, and Guerlain Chicheritfrom GCK, completed the top-5 of the test held this Thursday (5).

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Henk Lategan is sixth, just ahead of the Brazilian Luca Moraes, who finished the special with a time of 4h29min39s. Giniel de Villiers was eighth, with lob only in ninth position after a mechanical problem at kilometer 355 which cost him 20 minutes. Vaidotas Zala finished tenth.

Consequentially, al-attiyah he increased his lead in cars at Peterhansel. Moraes continues in sixth place, being the best rookie in the category, while lobwho had won the last special, dropped to 11th position, almost two hours behind the leader.

Dakar 2023, Cars, Ranking after special Thursday:

Quintero recovers and wins in light prototypes

the American Seth Quintero it got the better of the lightweight prototypes. The pilot of Red Bull he completed the stage in 4:59:55, the only time under five hours. the Chilean Francisco “Chaleco” Lopez closed in second position, with the mark of 5h04min42s. the American Austin Joneswhich has the Brazilian as a partner Gustav Gugelminhe placed third.

Category leader, the Belgian Guillaume de Mevius he finished fourth, with a time of 5h14min23s. Ebenhaezer Basson is fifth, followed by the Spaniard Cristina Gutiérrez Navarro. Santiago Navarro, Helder Rodrigues, David Zille and Saleh Alsaif completed the stage’s top ten in Hello.

With the result, de Mevius remains in front, but saw Jones and Gugelmin’s lead drop to just seven minutes. Quintero remains in third place even after winning this Thursday’s stage.

Dakar 2023, Lightweight Prototypes, Classification after Special Thursday:

Baciuska wins over UTVs and Luppi de Oliveira remains leader

On UTVs, victory went to the Lithuanian Roka Baciuskafrom Red Bullwho closed the special with a time of 5h02min52, just five seconds ahead of the Brazilian Christian Baptistby South Racing Can-AM.

His teammate, Saudi Arabian Yasir Seaidan completed the 2023 Dakar fifth stage podium in UTV. Fourth was the Spaniard Gerard Farres Guell, with the Brazilian class leader Rodrigo Luppi de Oliveira finishing fifth, with the mark of 5h07min25s.

The Polish trio consisting of Marek Goczal, Michael Goczal and Erik Goczal it came right away. The Spaniard Pau Navarro finished in ninth place and the Argentine Jeremias González Ferioli closed the top-10. Third Brazilian in the dispute, Bruno Conti de Oliveira he finished the stage in 15th place.

Luppi de Oliveira now has a 17-minute lead over second-placed Eryk Goczal. Baciuska appears in third place, while Batista and Conti de Oliveira are eighth and tenth respectively.

Dakar 2023, UTV, standings after special Thursday:

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