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Dakar 2024, Stage 9: Loeb strikes back to win, Sainz remains in lead
Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Romain Dumas rounded out the top 10 for Rebellion Racing, which like Overdrive uses the Hilux on a customer basis. Nasser Al-Attiyah’s 2024 Dakar outing went from bad to worse after his Prodrive Hunter gave up at the start of the stage, having been repaired at the last-minute following engine troubles on the previous day. In the overall standings, Sainz’s lead over Loeb has been slashed to a still comfortable 20m33s with just now three stages left in the 46th edition of the rally-raid. Moraes continues to hold third place in the overall standings, 1h12m02 off the lead, with de Mevius and de Villiers making it three Toyotas in the top five. Serradori’s third-place finish on Stage 9 has seen him jump to sixth in the standings, overhauling Chicherit and the MP Sports Ford of Martin Prokop.
