Sebastien Loeb claims his fifth straight stage win of Dakar2023 - and sixth in total - with another dominant drive on Friday's test. Full Stage 12 report:
Carrying his impeccable form into the final days of the two-week rally-raid, Loeb picked up his fifth consecutive stage win on Friday's 185km test between Empty Quarter and Shaybah, beating Audi's Mattias Ekstrom to the top spot by 3m19s.Bahrain Raid Xtreme
He also managed to gain time on his rivals in the final 29km section to the finish, which ran mostly f featured sand dunes, to clinch his sixth win from 12 stages so far. But Ekstrom was able to reel in Al-Attiyah and eventually secure the runner-up spot by just 12 seconds, bringing some consolation for Audi after a disastrous seven days that saw both Stephane Peterhansel and Carlos Sainz retire following separate crashes.
finishing down in eighth place with a time that was more than 10 minutes slower than Loeb's benchmark.put the X-raid Mini entry in fifth.
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