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Sebastien Loeb's decision to "go slow" in stage five earlier in the week paid off on Friday as the Frenchman won the marathon two-day stage 6 at the Dakar Rally. Veteran Spaniard Carlos Sainz finished second 2min 01sec behind and took the overall lead while five-time winner Nasser Al-Attiyah saw his hopes of winning a sixth title disappear with a mechanical problem in the last 50 kilometers. Adrien van Beveren made it a double French success with victory in the bike race.

Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer, author, and blogger. He spent over four years cycling round the world, has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain, and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He has trekked 1,000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25—one of his pioneering microadventures. He was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the year for 2012 and has written ten books...

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Toby Price has wrapped up the 48 Hour Chrono two-day stage as runner up, Daniel Sanders fourth...

Audi's Carlos Sainz leads the Dakar Rally after Sebastien Loeb claimed his second stage win in the Saudi Arabian desert.

Yazeed Al-Rajhi began the Dakar Rally's Chrono Stage as the overall leader. He left it with an overturned Toyota Hilux wondering what went wrong.