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Stage 5Looks like Loebs rally is over. He was stuck in the dunes in total for 3 hours and in addition Daniel Elena has suffered an injury.
De Villiers and AL-Attiyah have fallen further behind as Peterhansel pushes his advantage and now has 30 minutes over Sainz, and Ten Brinke in 3rd another 45 minutes behind...The Peugeot driver got stuck twice in the first special of today's stage before an injury to co-driver Daniel Elena forced Loeb to withdraw.
"The sand was extremely loose. We got stuck once and managed to get going again. In another part of the race, we got to a crest where another car was stuck. We were following Nasser and saw him go over, so we did the same, but I hadn't realised there was a hole behind the crest. And, bam, we went right into the hole! We waited for a truck to pull us out. Right now we feel like c... and bam. Right now I'm trying to see how my co-driver's doing: we're driving really slowly and, as soon as I go over 30 km/h he screams inside the car. He's hurting, we'll see what's the matter. Right now, I don't think we can go on. He's boss, I don't want to force him do to anything, but it looks bad."
Cars Top 6 overall at present:
1 300
STEPHANE PETERHANSEL
JEAN PAUL COTTRET
TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL 13H 27' 26''
2 303
CARLOS SAINZ
LUCAS CRUZ
TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL 13H 58' 42'' + 00H 31' 16''
3 309
BERNHARD TEN BRINKE
MICHEL PERIN
TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA 14H 42' 42'' + 01H 15' 16''
4 301
NASSER AL-ATTIYAH
MATTHIEU BAUMEL
TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA 14H 50' 47'' + 01H 23' 21''
5 304
GINIEL DE VILLIERS
DIRK VON ZITZEWITZ
TOYOTA GAZOO RACING SA 15H 02' 00'' + 01H 34' 34''
6 319
SHEIKH KHALID AL QASSIMI
XAVIER PANSERI
PH-SPORT 15H 14' 14'' + 01H 46' 48''
Fuchs in the Borgward is currently classified 13 overall, albeit over 4 hours down on Peterhansel.
Bikes
It is MUCH closer in the bike category with the top 6 covered by 10 minutes. (This surprises me but the times and positions are taken from the official timing.)
1 4
ADRIEN VAN BEVEREN
YAMALUBE YAMAHA OFFICIAL RALLY TEAM 14H 37' 40''
2 47
KEVIN BENAVIDES
MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM 14H 38' 40'' + 00H 01' 00''
3 2
MATTHIAS WALKNER
RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM 14H 38' 54'' + 00H 01' 14''
4 5
JOAN BARREDA BORT
MONSTER ENERGY HONDA TEAM 14H 45' 13'' + 00H 07' 33''
5 23
XAVIER DE SOULTRAIT
YAMALUBE YAMAHA OFFICIAL RALLY TEAM 14H 45' 22'' + 00H 07' 42''
6 8
TOBY PRICE
RED BULL KTM FACTORY TEAM 14H 48' 19'' + 00H 10' 39''