Sebastien Loeb set a Dakar Rally record of six stage wins in a row on Saturday as Qatar's reigning champion Nasser Al-Attiyah stood on the brink of clinching his fifth title in the car category.
Frenchman Loeb, a nine-times world rally champion, took his seventh stage win of the 2023 event to cement second position overall in Saudi Arabia with only Sunday's final run to Dammam on the Gulf coast remaining.
"Championship points are important too, so I pushed. The visibility made the dunes hard to jump. I feel good on sand, I can set a strong pace, I'm confident, I can drive aggressively while watching out for broken dunes." The Dakar is the flagship of the five-round FIA world rally-raid championship and Loeb has won more stages than any driver in this year's event.
Toyota's Al-Attiyah remained comfortably ahead, able to ease off and reduce the risks with an hour and 21 minute cushion at the top."We finished second in a good position and I'm happy to keep our first place until the finish," said the Toyota driver.
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