00:00The crew's getting into position to welcome their trucks to the pit stop.
00:10No time to waste as they try to get the Dakar Giants suited and booted
00:18and cleaned up for the second act of Stage 9.
00:22Some however forced to take mallets into their own hands.
00:30Some got back on their way. Others needed more attention.
00:42Before climbing up and trying to make up for lost time.
00:48That was an opportunity Martin Masic was not afforded.
00:52The Champions Truck Joseph ground to a halt and ended dreams of Masic seeking out
00:58a third successive title.
01:04We hit some tree, you know, we opened the window.
01:06Afterwards we just heard some guests, some air go in.
01:10Like whee! There is some hole or something like that.
01:14We have to find out. Basically we don't know yet.
01:18So still trying to solve it.
01:20Hours lost that only strengthened the confidence of Mitchell van den Brink.
01:28The consolation for Masic.
01:30The Dutchman driving his truck towards Mitchell's first truck triumph.
01:36Third on the day, but only losing three minutes.
01:40And Mitchell would follow via Dotas Jalohom.
01:44The Lithuanian is now Mitchell's main rival given his podium consistency.
01:50But both beaten to top spot by Alish Loprice.
01:56Turning his Stage 8 frown upside down to be all smiles on Stage 9.
02:02Although it wasn't exactly plain sailing after an early error.
02:10We just destroyed a window at the beginning of the stage.
02:12My fault in the trees.
02:14It was not good for the navigator, but we made it even with a broken window.
02:19I hope tomorrow we can, we will see what will happen tomorrow.
02:24Masic dominated the last marathon stage.
02:29His title defence ended on this one.
02:31Loprice's win takes him level with Mitchell with three stage wins each this edition.
02:36Yet the Czech's Red Dragon is nearly an hour down.
02:39Jala now the Dutchman's closest rival.
02:41But 37 minutes is the buffer.
