00:00 (September 2016, France)
00:05 On board with Xavier Dessoutre and Martin Bonnet yesterday
00:09 as they passed the only remaining pair who could realistically stop them winning this Dakar.
00:14 - Are you OK? - Yes, I'm OK.
00:21 - We have to be careful. - Yes.
00:26 We don't care.
00:29 Y left, 260.
00:31 - Is it him? - No, it's not him.
00:36 It's the Portuguese.
00:38 It's perfect.
00:40 Let's go, we're not stopping.
00:42 Y left, 260.
00:44 We can still win the Dakar.
00:45 - That means you can handle it a bit more. - Yes.
00:49 Let's go.
00:51 Yes!
00:55 Let's go.
00:56 Let's calm down.
00:57 (Day 13, Dakar)
01:01 Welcome to Day 13 of Dakar 46.
01:05 Coming up, another top three takeover on Stage 10
01:09 and Honda wonder if they can shut out the final podium.
01:12 It's howdy-howdy as they prove teamwork can make the dream work
01:16 but another flex from BRX who haven't given up yet.
01:20 In the closest of all the categories, Anduka says au revoir to Alexander
01:24 and stretches his lead.
01:27 Engines on, take a deep breath.
01:29 Roadbooks at the ready and even if it takes all day,
01:32 let's just drive and let's just ride.
01:35 It's Aloha Alula again.
01:43 Here six times so far.
01:45 This time it's a loop.
01:46 614km including the liaison with 371 racing kilometres.
01:51 With the final day being a short special with few dangers,
01:55 Stages 10 and 11 are the last realistic chances for an assault on the title.
02:00 Rikki Brabeck, number one overall and number one today.
02:03 The American and his Honda appear to be unbeatable but it's not over yet.
02:08 Adrian did a good job and I'm really happy to be at the finish Stage 10.
02:15 So with two days left, the team's looking really strong
02:18 and I'm 100% right now.
02:20 For the second day running, it was a Honda 123,
02:24 Van Beveren third, 20 seconds back.
02:27 And Nacho Corneco and him are fighting for the podium.
02:30 Another impressive ride from the Chilean.
02:32 Ross Branch lost another 3 minutes 45.
02:38 He must be looking over his shoulder now at the red and black pair
02:41 trying to displace him.
02:42 Rikki is a step up the level and he's doing well
02:51 and it's going to be hard to catch him but we've still got one more long day
02:54 and we'll see how it goes.
02:56 Yesterday we spoke to Harit Noah, the Indian Rally 2 rider
03:01 who's gone through the whole Dakar without knowing his results.
03:04 Well, he doesn't know but today he finished top of the class in Rally 2
03:07 and fifth overall. A phenomenal performance.
03:10 If you're looking for signs, Rikki Brabeck has been top 7 every day
03:15 but hadn't won a stage till today, similar to Kevin Benavidez last year.
03:19 And he wears the number 9 just like he did in 2020.
03:22 I haven't done any Dakars. This is my first, yeah.
03:26 The days are a lot longer and we cover way more distance than I expected.
03:32 I do keep looking at the results because I do want to do my best.
03:46 Having kind of fun but it makes me very tired.
03:49 You know, the original bi-motor is very tough discipline.
03:53 When I do freestyle I know what to expect here.
03:56 I have no idea what is under the ground or where some stone is going to be hidden
04:01 or what's in the next corner. So, it's full of surprises.
04:06 Alright, bye bye.
04:09 Rikki Brabeck has ridden for 44 race hours in total since the start of the rally.
04:14 Spare a thought for Xavier De Bosch who's done 90 hours.
04:18 But it matters not to the Catalan. He's riding with the All One Team,
04:22 a group of friends here in memory of their friend Alex Libre who died in 2017.
04:27 Alex's twin brother Carlos is also here. Some things mean more.
04:32 Rikki took today's stage in the bikes and in the T4s his girlfriend of 5 years,
04:37 Sarah Price, won her first special.
04:40 In doing so, she became only the third woman ever to win a stage at the Dakar
04:45 after Jutta Kleinschmidt and Cristina Gutierrez.
04:48 Price is running out of time to emulate Kleinschmidt's overall win in 2001 though.
04:56 De Soultre's lead is still 20 minutes.
04:59 This is how things look with two days left.
05:08 Destiny remains in the hands of Manuel Andujar in the quads.
05:12 He's now nearly 9 minutes ahead of Alexandre Giroud.
05:15 The defending champion needs a huge effort tomorrow.
05:18 Toyota Gazoo Racing occupy 4 places in the top 10 of the ultimates.
05:33 There are 6 Toyota cars in the top 10.
05:35 There are 6 Toyota Hiluxes there in total.
05:38 But as in the last 2 years in the T3s, the American Seth Quintero dropped out of contention
05:44 despite some fleeting good results.
05:46 Today though, he played good Samaritan.
05:54 Having launched himself off this ledge and damaged his suspension,
05:57 which made him retire from the stage,
05:59 the 21-year-old American ran back to the offending jump
06:03 and warned the next driver through of the danger.
06:06 That next driver through was Eugenio Amos of Overdrive Racing.
06:12 Carlos Sainz ran into trouble with punctures.
06:19 The Spaniard had already picked up 2 and got a third.
06:22 Carlos had 3 punctures and he only had 2 good wheels,
06:25 so Mathias had to give him new wheels.
06:28 It wasn't supposed to be super hard today or a particularly demanding stage,
06:32 but actually there were loads and loads of punctures.
06:35 Audi's team tactics paid off, with Mathias Ekstrom on hand to provide assistance
06:41 and more specifically those spare tyres.
06:44 Then Stefan Pederhansel arrived, Sainz got going again,
06:47 but lost about 7 minutes to Loeb, ending the stage 25th.
07:00 Guillaume de Mevius was another who suffered with puncture problems.
07:03 He's 4th overall.
07:05 Today he was just ahead of Saoud Varyawa, the youngest driver at the Dakar.
07:09 He's just 18.
07:11 Seb Loeb sped past the Belgian on his way to, not another win, but more punctures.
07:17 Loeb finished 16th on the special,
07:19 but made the 7 minutes he needs each day to catch Sainz by a yamboo.
07:25 (BRAZILIAN CHAMPIONS)
07:27 It was a difficult day for all the top names, including Brazilian Lucas Moraes,
07:48 but he has a 25-minute gap in 3rd overall, ahead of de Mevius.
07:53 Carlos Sainz has made an official complaint against Romain Dumas,
07:57 who he claims blocked him at some point.
07:59 The Spaniard wasn't happy at all at the finish.
08:01 I just lost 7 minutes or 8 minutes.
08:11 I have to wait for Mathias because I was running out of tyres.
08:14 We got back yesterday with a jack problem.
08:20 It was leaking.
08:22 And this morning we arrived late to the start because it was leaking again.
08:25 We got it out, it wouldn't go back in,
08:27 and it's frustrating to lose so much time for something so silly.
08:30 Everyone has something to moan about then it seems,
08:41 but the road doesn't lie and we have two days left of this heavyweight title fight.
08:45 I'll tell you who wasn't moaning today though, Guerlain Chicharit.
08:49 A win, a huge result for the Frenchman,
08:51 who's in a battle for 4th overall.
08:53 He's now ahead of Serradori and 20 minutes adrift of Guillaume de Mevius.
08:57 It's always nice to get a stage win.
09:03 I've been chasing it for a while now.
09:05 It allows me to go up two places overall with 5th,
09:08 and that's exactly where we wanted to be.
09:10 Perhaps we can even go higher.
09:12 In normal circumstances, 3rd.
09:14 I don't think we'll manage that, but we're going to fight.
09:18 Here we go then, with two days left.
09:20 Under 14 minutes between Sainz and Loeb.
09:23 It's looking exciting.
09:24 Bear in mind, Sebastian Loeb does not enter this FIA World Rallyway Championship.
09:28 There are no particular worries for Mitch Guthrie and Kellan Walsh in the challengers.
09:34 They're one day closer to holding their arms aloft in the Ambu.
09:38 They did lead for much of the early part of the day.
09:40 In the end though, Brazilian Marcelo Gastaldi had a clear run to a maiden stage.
09:47 Before today, the best result for Michiel Becks and his Dutch crew in the trucks
09:50 had been 6th on stage 4.
09:52 Today, 3rd.
09:53 Two more days to stay out of trouble for Maciek Tomasek and Zwander.
10:02 The three Czechs will go one better than last year
10:04 and lift that coveted Dakar trophy.
10:06 Cieszku Sink heads up another all-Dutch crew,
10:10 which after a very difficult start to this rally,
10:13 has been getting better and better.
10:14 A 5th, a 6th and now two consecutive wins for the young blood Dakar team.
10:19 Barring disaster, it's all too easy for Martin Maciek,
10:23 who last year won five stages in the trucks.
10:26 In 2022, Red Bull didn't win T3s.
10:29 2021, Manuel Alduca took the quads.
10:32 2020 was the last time Carlos Sainz won.
10:34 And 2019, the last time the final podium was three bikes from the same brand.
10:38 All of that could be repeated as we reach the climax of Dakar 46.
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