US EditionEkstrom Wins Dakar Stage 11 as Al-Attiyah Stays on Top
Mattias Ekström won his third stage in the Saudi desert while Nasser Al-Attiyah kept a strong overall lead amid rivals' setbacks, including Henk Lategan's mechanical failures.
- On Jan 15, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Qatari driver for Dacia Sandriders, finished the stage with an eight minute and 40 second lead over Nani Roma, remaining on course for a sixth Dakar Rally win.
- Henk Lategan suffered a cascade of mechanical failures from Tuesday to Thursday, allowing Nani Roma and Sebastien Loeb to move into podium contention as Lategan dropped to 23rd.
- Mattias Ekström won Thursday's 346km car stage from Bisha to Al Henakiyah, clocking 2hr 47min 22sec in a Ford Raptor for his third stage win this year.
- With two stages remaining, Nasser Al-Attiyah said, 'Tomorrow, we just need to do the same as today. If we lose two, three or four minutes it’s no problem,' emphasizing finishing first at Yanbu.
- Skyler Howes won the motorbike stage, beating Adrien Van Beveren and becoming the ninth American to win a Dakar bike stage.
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On stage 11 of the Dakar Rally (Bisha - Al Henakiyah; 347 km), the Fords, led by Swede Mattias Ekström, showed excellent performance, but Nasser Al-Attiyah (Dacia) continues to be the overall leader.
Rally masters like to joke when talking about their activities during the race that "this is not chess - this is where you have to think." And indeed, as Thursday dawned before setting off on the almost 900-kilometer route, with 346 "fast" kilometers, there was more talk than ever about how a "cautious strategy" would be implemented, how the goal was to "freeze the result" and how efforts were being made to "not make things worse," according to …
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Al-Attiyah closes on sixth Dakar Rally as Ekstrom wins 11th stage
Ekström takes Dakar stage 11 victory as Al-Attiyah retains overall lead
Nasser Al-Attiyah remained on course for a sixth career Dakar Rally win in the top car category after last year’s runner-up Henk Lategan hit more trouble in the Saudi Arabian desert on Thursday.
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