Dakar 2023, Stage 1: Sainz leads from Loeb, Al-Attiyah struggles

It was Sainz’s teammate Mattias Ekstrom who led the majority of the 367km special near Sea Camp in Saudi Arabia, the former DTM ace grabbing the lead at the first checkpoint and steadily building his advantage from there on.
But the complexion of the stage changed completely between the final two checkpoints, with Sainz producing a heroic effort to jump from fourth – and more than two minutes …Keep reading