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2026 Dakar Rally race results

Stage results: Bikes

Stage	Pos	Competitor	Make	Time	Gap
Prologue	1	Edgar Canet	KTM	0:11:31
	2	Daniel Sanders	KTM	0:11:34	0:00:03
	3	Ricky Brabec	Honda	0:11:36	0:00:05

Stage 1	1	Edgar Canet	KTM	3:16:11
	2	Daniel Sanders	KTM	3:17:13	0:01:02
	3	Ricky Brabec	Honda	3:17:43	0:01:32

Stage 2	1	Daniel Sanders	KTM	4:13:37
	2	Edgar Canet	KTM	4:15:12	0:01:35
	3	Ricky Brabec	Honda	4:15:23	0:01:46

Stage 3	1	Tosha Schareina	Honda	4:26:39
	2	Ricky Brabec	Honda	4:28:56	0:02:17
	3	Daniel Sanders	KTM	4:30:07	0:03:28

Stage 4	1	Tosha Schareina	Honda	4:31:56
	2	Ricky Brabec	Honda	4:32:02	0:00:06
	3	Skyler Howes	Honda	4:32:06	0:00:10

Stage 5	1	Luciano Benavides	KTM	4:05:16
	2	José Ignacio Cornejo	Hero	4:09:07	0:03:51
	3	Daniel Sanders	KTM	4:11:06	0:05:50

Stage 6	1	Ricky Brabec	Honda	3:41:33
	2	Tosha Schareina	Honda	3:42:47	0:01:14
	3	Daniel Sanders	KTM	3:42:50	0:01:17

Stage 7	1	Luciano Benavides	KTM	4:00:56
	2	Edgar Canet	KTM	4:05:43	0:04:47
	3	Adrien Van Beveren	Honda	4:05:53	0:04:57

Stage 8	1	Luciano Benavides	KTM	4:26:39
	2	Daniel Sanders	KTM	4:31:29	0:04:50
	3	Ricky Brabec	Honda	4:31:41	0:05:02

Stage 9	1	Tosha Schareina	Honda	3:45:42
	2	Daniel Sanders	KTM	3:50:17	0:04:35
	3	Michael Docherty	KTM	3:50:32	0:04:50

Stage 10	1	Adrien Van Beveren	Honda	4:15:43
	2	Ricky Brabec	Honda	4:19:32	0:03:49
	3	Luciano Benavides	KTM	4:19:47	0:04:04

Stage 11	1	Skyler Howes	Honda	3:09:02
	2	Adrien Van Beveren	Honda	3:09:23	0:00:21
	3	Edgar Canet	KTM	3:10:17	0:01:15

Stage 12	1	Ricky Brabec	Honda	3:19:01
	2	Luciano Benavides	KTM	3:22:44	0:03:43
	3	Tosha Schareina	Honda	3:31:59	0:12:58

Stage 13	1	Edgar Canet	KTM	0:49:03
	2	Luciano Benavides	KTM	0:49:09	0:00:06
	3	Tosha Schareina	Honda	0:49:50	0:00:47

Stage results: Cars

Stage	Pos	Competitor	Make	Time	Gap
Prologue	1	Mattias Ekström	Ford	0:10:48
	2	Mitch Guthrie	Ford	0:10:56	0:00:08
	3	Guillaume De Mévius	Mini	0:10:56	0:00:08

Stage 1	1	Guillaume De Mévius	Mini	3:07:49
	2	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Dacia	3:08:29	0:00:40
	3	Martin Prokop	Ford	3:09:16	0:01:27

Stage 2	1	Seth Quintero	Toyota	3:57:16
	2	Henk Lategan	Toyota	3:58:58	0:01:42
	3	Yazeed Al-Rajhi	Toyota	3:59:12	0:01:56

Stage 3	1	Mitch Guthrie	Ford	4:04:32
	2	Martin Prokop	Ford	4:06:59	0:02:27
	3	Guy Botterill	Toyota	4:09:55	0:05:23

Stage 4	1	Henk Lategan	Toyota	4:47:08
	2	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Dacia	4:54:11	0:07:03
	3	Marek Goczał	Toyota	5:01:23	0:14:15

Stage 5	1	Nani Roma	Ford	3:54:42
	2	Mitch Guthrie	Ford	3:54:46	0:00:04
	3	Martin Prokop	Ford	3:57:00	0:02:18

Stage 6	1	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Dacia	3:38:28
	2	Sébastien Loeb	Dacia	3:41:26	0:02:58
	3	Seth Quintero	Toyota	3:41:47	0:03:19

Stage 7	1	Mattias Ekström	Ford	3:44:22
	2	Joao Ferreira	Toyota	3:48:49	0:04:27
	3	Mitch Guthrie	Ford	3:49:17	0:04:55

Stage 8	1	Saood Variawa	Toyota	4:20:35
	2	Henk Lategan	Toyota	4:20:38	0:00:03
	3	Mattias Ekström	Ford	4:21:04	0:00:29

Stage 9	1	Eryk Goczał	Toyota	3:46:42
	2	Michal Goczał	Toyota	3:54:27	0:07:45
	3	Toby Price	Toyota	3:58:18	0:11:36

Stage 10	1	Mathieu Serradori	Century	4:48:27
	2	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Dacia	4:54:39	0:06:12
	3	Sébastien Loeb	Dacia	4:57:47	0:09:20

Stage 11	1	Mattias Ekström	Ford	2:47:22
	2	Romain Dumas	Ford	2:48:44	0:01:22
	3	Carlos Sainz	Ford	2:49:48	0:02:26

Stage 12	1	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Dacia	3:21:52
	2	Mitch Guthrie	Ford	3:22:56	0:01:04
	3	Toby Price	Toyota	3:23:17	0:01:25

Stage 13	1	Mattias Ekström	Ford	0:46:14
	2	Sébastien Loeb	Dacia	0:46:22	0:00:08
	3	Henk Lategan	Toyota	0:46:27	0:00:13

Stage results: Challenger (T3)

Stage	Pos	Competitor	Make	Time	Gap
Prologue	1	Paul Spierings	Taurus	0:12:31
	2	Puck Klaassen	GRallyTeam	0:12:37	0:00:06
	3	Dania Akeel	Taurus	0:12:44	0:00:13

Stage 1	1	David Zille	Taurus	3:32:50
	2	Paul Spierings	Taurus	3:33:32	0:00:42
	3	Nicolás Cavigliasso	Taurus	3:34:53	0:02:03

Stage 2	1	Lucas del Rio	Taurus	4:26:49
	2	Yasir Seaidan	Taurus	4:29:29	0:02:40
	3	Puck Klaassen	GRallyTeam	4:30:46	0:03:57

Stage 3	1	Puck Klaassen	GRallyTeam	4:28:25
	2	Yasir Seaidan	Taurus	4:36:50	0:08:25
	3	Pau Navarro	Taurus	4:39:43	0:11:18

Stage 4	1	Nicolás Cavigliasso	Taurus	5:23:12
	2	Pau Navarro	Taurus	5:25:41	0:02:29
	3	Dania Akeel	Taurus	5:27:18	0:04:06

Stage 5	1	Lucas del Rio	Taurus	4:18:09
	2	Pau Navarro	Taurus	4:18:33	0:00:24
	3	Dania Akeel	Taurus	4:18:37	0:00:28

Stage 6	1	Ignacio Casale	Taurus	3:58:57
	2	Dania Akeel	Taurus	3:59:35	0:00:38
	3	Kevin Benavides	Taurus	4:00:37	0:01:40

Stage 7	1	Kevin Benavides	Taurus	4:22:57
	2	Yasir Seaidan	Taurus	4:27:36	0:04:39
	3	Nicolás Cavigliasso	Taurus	4:28:37	0:05:40

Stage 8	1	Puck Klaassen	GRallyTeam	4:55:38
	2	Dania Akeel	Taurus	4:55:41	0:00:03
	3	Paul Spierings	Taurus	4:55:59	0:00:21

Stage 9	1	Paul Spierings	Taurus	4:08:57
	2	Kevin Benavides	Taurus	4:10:17	0:01:20
	3	David Zille	Taurus	4:15:31	0:06:34

Stage 10	1	Paul Spierings	Taurus	5:14:55
	2	Yasir Seaidan	Taurus	5:17:45	0:02:50
	3	Kevin Benavides	Taurus	5:18:17	0:03:22

Stage 11	1	Nicolás Cavigliasso	Taurus	3:17:27
	2	Paul Spierings	Taurus	3:17:56	0:00:29
	3	Dania Akeel	Taurus	3:18:30	0:01:03

Stage 12	1	Kevin Benavides	Taurus	3:44:52
	2	Dania Akeel	Taurus	3:47:07	0:02:15
	3	David Zille	Taurus	3:48:29	0:03:37

Stage 13	1	Kevin Benavides	Taurus	0:52:28
	2	Charles Munster	GRallyTeam	0:53:41	0:01:13
	3	Lucas del Rio	Taurus	0:53:45	0:01:17

Stage results: SSV (T4)

Stage	Pos	Competitor	Make	Time	Gap
Prologue	1	Brock Heger	Polaris	0:12:47
	2	Gonçalo Guerreiro	Polaris	0:12:51	0:00:04
	3	Kyle Chaney	Can-Am	0:12:53	0:00:06

Stage 1	1	Xavier de Soultrait	Polaris	3:38:45
	2	Alexandre Pinto	Polaris	3:42:19	0:03:34
	3	Brock Heger	Polaris	3:42:33	0:03:48

Stage 2	1	Gonçalo Guerreiro	Polaris	4:42:45
	2	Florent Vayssade	Polaris	4:43:47	0:01:02
	3	Xavier de Soultrait	Polaris	4:45:31	0:02:46

Stage 3	1	Brock Heger	Polaris	4:38:09
	2	Gonçalo Guerreiro	Polaris	4:43:27	0:05:18
	3	Joao Monteiro	Can-Am	4:43:41	0:05:32

Stage 4	1	Brock Heger	Polaris	5:21:48
	2	Joao Monteiro	Can-Am	5:37:50	0:16:02
	3	Joao Dias	Polaris	5:38:28	0:16:40

Stage 5	1	Kyle Chaney	Can-Am	4:17:22
	2	Francisco López Contardo	Can-Am	4:18:13	0:00:51
	3	Brock Heger	Polaris	4:20:49	0:03:27

Stage 6	1	Xavier de Soultrait	Polaris	3:59:53
	2	Kyle Chaney	Can-Am	4:02:00	0:02:07
	3	Francisco López Contardo	Can-Am	4:02:27	0:02:34

Stage 7	1	Jeremías Gonzalez Ferioli	Can-Am	4:32:58
	2	Kyle Chaney	Can-Am	4:33:05	0:00:07
	3	Joao Monteiro	Can-Am	4:33:07	0:00:09

Stage 8	1	Brock Heger	Polaris	5:04:15
	2	Jeremías Gonzalez Ferioli	Can-Am	5:05:01	0:00:46
	3	Joao Monteiro	Can-Am	5:05:58	0:01:43

Stage 9	1	Francisco López Contardo	Can-Am	4:23:43
	2	Johan Kristoffersson	Polaris	4:24:16	0:00:33
	3	Hunter Miller	Can-Am	4:27:33	0:03:50

Stage 10	1	Brock Heger	Polaris	5:18:14
	2	Xavier de Soultrait	Polaris	5:19:29	12/30/1899
	3	Jeremías Gonzalez Ferioli	Can-Am	5:23:23	0:05:09

Stage 11	1	Brock Heger	Polaris	3:30:11
	2	Jeremías Gonzalez Ferioli	Can-Am	3:31:02	0:00:51
	3	Johan Kristoffersson	Polaris	3:33:16	0:03:05

Stage 12	1	Jeremías Gonzalez Ferioli	Can-Am	3:51:36
	2	Joao Monteiro	Can-Am	3:58:31	0:06:55
	3	Hunter Miller	Can-Am	3:59:15	0:07:39

Stage 13	1	Joao Monteiro	Can-Am	0:55:09
	2	Johan Kristoffersson	Polaris	0:55:23	0:00:14
	3	Jeremías Gonzalez Ferioli	Can-Am	0:55:29	0:00:20

Stage results: Trucks

Stage	Pos	Competitor	Make	Time	Gap
Prologue	1	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	0:13:05
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	0:13:08	0:00:03
	3	Gert Huzink	Renault	0:13:11	0:00:06

Stage 1	1	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	3:42:15
	2	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	3:44:02	0:01:47
	3	Martin Macík	Iveco	3:49:34	0:07:19

Stage 2	1	Gert Huzink	Renault	4:42:45
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	4:43:17	0:00:32
	3	Martin Macík	Iveco	4:43:54	0:01:09

Stage 3	1	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	4:52:59
	2	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	4:54:01	0:01:02
	3	Richard de Groot	Iveco	4:56:34	0:03:35

Stage 4	1	Martin Macík	Iveco	5:40:19
	2	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	5:53:08	0:12:49
	3	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	5:58:28	0:18:09

Stage 5	1	Martin Macík	Iveco	4:30:26
	2	Kay Huzink	Renault	4:33:44	0:03:18
	3	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	4:34:27	0:04:01

Stage 6	1	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	4:10:50
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	4:12:48	0:01:58
	3	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	4:13:36	0:02:46

Stage 7	1	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	4:27:24
	2	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	4:28:47	0:01:23
	3	Martin Macík	Iveco	4:34:02	0:06:38

Stage 8	1	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	5:03:42
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	5:09:13	0:05:31
	3	Martin Macík	Iveco	5:25:26	0:21:44

Stage 9	1	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	4:26:43
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	4:28:36	0:01:53
	3	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	4:31:57	0:05:14

Stage 10	1	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	5:35:54
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	5:37:31	0:01:37
	3	Martin Soltys	Tatra	5:58:24	0:22:30

Stage 11	1	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	3:19:59
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	3:22:30	0:02:31
	3	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	3:24:18	0:04:19

Stage 12	1	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	3:58:47
	2	Vaidotas Žala	Iveco	4:05:43	0:06:56
	3	Martin Soltys	Tatra	4:07:11	0:08:24

Stage 13	1	Kay Huzink	Renault	0:54:41
	2	Mitchel van den Brink	Iveco	0:55:55	0:01:14
	3	Aleš Loprais	Iveco	0:56:08	0:01:27

Stage results: Classics

Stage	Pos	Competitor	Make	Points	Gap
Prologue	1	Francesco Pece	Nissan	3
	2	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	4	+1
	3	Tomasz Staniszewski	Porsche	4	+1

Stage 1	1	Marco Ernesto Leva	Mitsubishi	71
	2	Shammie Baridwan	Toyota	76	+5
	3	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	77	+6

Stage 2	1	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	48
	2	Maxence Gublin	Land Rover	50	+2
	3	Marco Ernesto Leva	Mitsubishi	54	+6

Stage 3	1	Tomasz Białkowski	DAF	97
	2	Maxence Gublin	Land Rover	100	+3
	3	Lorenzo Traglio	Nissan	106	+9

Stage 4	1	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	24
	2	Maxence Gublin	Land Rover	25	+1
	3	Juraj Šebalj	Toyota	38	+14

Stage 5	1	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	43
	2	Francesco Pece	Nissan	57	+14
	3	Marco Ernesto Leva	Mitsubishi	63	+20

Stage 6	1	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	58
	2	Josef Unterholzner	Mitsubishi	60	+2
	3	Tomasz Białkowski	DAF	61	+3

Stage 7	1	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	61
	2	Tomasz Staniszewski	Porsche	72	+11
	3	Josef Unterholzner	Mitsubishi	78	+17

Stage 8	1	Ondrej Klymciw	Mitsubishi	22
	2	Juan Morera	Porsche	33	+11
	3	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	39	+17

Stage 9	1	Maxence Gublin	Land Rover	22
	2	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	33	+11
	3	Ondrej Klymciw	Mitsubishi	35	+13

Stage 10	1	Ondrej Klymciw	Mitsubishi	28
	2	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	33	+5
	3	Tomasz Staniszewski	Porsche	33	+5

Stage 11	1	Shammie Baridwan	Toyota	22
	2	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	35	+13
	3	Maxence Gublin	Land Rover	35	+13

Stage 12	1	Maxence Gublin	Land Rover	52
	2	Ondrej Klymciw	Mitsubishi	56	+4
	3	David Bensadoun	Toyota	56	+4

Stage 13	1	Karolis Raisys	Land Rover	20
	2	Filippo Colnaghi	Nissan	20	0
	3	Ondrej Klymciw	Mitsubishi	24	+4

Stage results: Mission 1000

Stage	Pos	Competitor	Make	Points	Gap
Prologue	1	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	15
	2	Yi Guanghui	Segway	15	0
	3	Jie Yang	Segway	15	0

Stage 1	1	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	10
	2	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	10	0
	3	Miguel Puertas	Arctic Leopard	10	0

Stage 2	1	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	10
	2	Yi Guanghui	Segway	10	0
	3	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	10	0

Stage 3	1	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	15
	2	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	10	-5
	3	Yi Guanghui	Segway	10	-5

Stage 4	1	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	20
	2	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	15	-5
	3	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	15	-5

Stage 5	1	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	30
	2	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	30	0
	3	Jie Yang	Segway	22	-8

Stage 6	1	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	10
	2	Esther Merino	Arctic Leopard	10	0
	3	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	10	0

Stage 7	1	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	22
	2	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	20	-2
	3	Miguel Puertas	Arctic Leopard	20	-2

Stage 8	1	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	30
	2	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	25	-5
	3	Esther Merino	Arctic Leopard	15	-15

Stage 9	1	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	20
	2	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	20	0
	3	Jie Yang	Segway	20	0

Stage 10	1	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	20
	2	Esther Merino	Arctic Leopard	20	0
	3	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	15	-5

Stage 11	1	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	20
	2	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	20	0
	3	Esther Merino	Arctic Leopard	20	0

Stage 12	1	Esther Merino	Arctic Leopard	20
	2	Fran Gómez Pallas	Arctic Leopard	20	0
	3	Miguel Puertas	Arctic Leopard	20	0

Stage 13	1	Benjamin Pascual	Segway	20
	2	Jordi Juvanteny	MAN	20	0
	3	Yi Guanghui	Segway	20	0

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