Dakar 2025 – Stage 7: Times adjusted after an erroneous note

Bad news for Henk Lategan who thought he had pulled off the excellent operation of the day. With a lead of more than 15 minutes over his runner-up Yazeed Al-Rajhi and almost 20 over Nasser Al-Attiyah at the halfway point, the South African saw the race management intervene in this 7th stage. 

In fact, a mistake in the note is at the origin of these big gaps between the competitors which forced the organization to react. Thus, a portion of approximately 20 kilometers will not be taken into account, we learned. An erroneous road-book note at km 158 of the car special lost several vehicles opening the track this morning. A portion of about twenty kilometers, upstream and downstream of this point, will therefore be determined not to take into account the times recorded on this part of the special »

The ranking of stage 7 of the Dakar 2025 live

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