Henk Lategan extended his lead at the top of the overall Dakar Rally standings with a dominant performance on Stage 8. The factory Toyota driver finished the test in 4h49m54s, though was docked two minutes after finishing for a speed violation,

Al Duwadimi: Five-time Dakar winner Nasser Al Attiyah was fourth to the finish line, and maintained fourth place in the general rankings as a road book note error caused many drivers at the front of the field to lose their bearings, forcing Dakar Rally organisers to erase any gains or losses for a 20km stretch during yesterday's stage seven.

American driver Seth Quintero won the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on Thursday by one second after Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah, who was first across the line, was penalised 10 minutes.

Dacia driver Nasser Al-Attiyah bounced back from mechanical issues to win the fifth stage of the 2025 Dakar Rally on Thursday and climb up to fourth in the overall standings. Having lost half an hour with a puncture and a broken rear suspension on Wednesday,

Five-time champion Nasser Al-Attiyah has been stripped of a smashing stage win in the Dakar Rally because of a missing spare wheel in the Saudi desert.

Toyota's South African Henk Lategan stretched his Dakar Rally lead on Thursday while a 10 minute penalty denied Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah a first stage win for Dacia after a dominant day in the Saudi Arabian desert.

Quintero declared stage winner as Al-Attiyah is docked 10 minutes

The ebb and flow of momentum is a key part of what makes the Dakar Rally such a classic of endurance, and another example of this was provided by today's fifth stage. Nasser Al Attiyah appeared to have secured his first stage win of this year's Dakar,