Dakar 2023: Clear victory for Nasser Al-Attiyah and Toyota 🎥
HARD WORK This year's Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia was won by Nasser Al-Attiyah from Qatar and his French co-driver Mathieu Baumel. For Al-Attiyah, this is already the fifth Dakar victory since 2015.
With their Toyota GR DKR Hilux, the duo outpaced Frenchman Sebastian Loeb and Belgian Fabian Lurquin in the Hunter Prodrive by around 80 minutes. Third place went to Brazilian Lucas Moraes and his German co-driver Timo Gottschalk, also in a Toyota Hilux.
Four rings reached rank 14
Team Audi Sport (gallery left) helped shape the rally to the end despite various setbacks. The Audi drivers led the race in Saudi Arabia with the prototype for three days for the first time. However, a series of punctures, the accident-related retirements of Carlos Sainz, Lucas Cruz, Stéphane Peterhansel and Edouard Boulanger as well as a big time loss for Mattias Ekström and Emil Bergkvist prevented a better result than 14th place.
Rating motorcycles and trucks
The motorcycle classification was won by Kevin Benavides from Argentina on KTM. In the Trucks, Dutchman Janus van Kasteren secured victory in the Iveco Powerstar, while Frenchman Alexandre Giroud on Yamaha Raptor 700 maintained his dominance of the Quads (gallery on the right) right to the end. The Can-Am Maverick XSR Turbo of Poland's Eryk Goczal and his Spanish co-driver Oriol Mena took first place in the SSV class. The Dakar Classic victory went to the Spanish duo of Juan Morera with co-driver Lidia Ruba in a Toyota HDJ 80.
