Extended highlights of Stage 12 presented by Aramco - #Dakar2024

Dakar

19/01/2024

These are the extended highlights of Stage 12 - the final stage of #Dakar2024 - brought to you courtesy of @aramco. In the Ultimate category Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz secured the overall victory, making Sainz the first ever driver to win the rally with 4 different manufacturers! In the Bikes class Ricky Brabec got the job done, navigating the final 175km special in Yanbu to clinch a second title following his triumph in 2020!
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00:00 This is it.

00:07 Crunch time.

00:08 Judgment day at Dakar 2024.

00:15 Ricky Brabeck led the Dakar this morning by just over 10 minutes to Ross Branch.

00:20 Rick and Ross were also top two yesterday, so they were first out.

00:26 A comfortable lead should see a free Ricky.

00:29 Ross was hoping against hope to flip the order at the top.

00:34 No major difficulties today, but any issue can wreck your hopes here, no matter how solid

00:38 things look at the start.

00:39 174k of special.

00:42 The leading woman, and in fact the only remaining woman in the rally, is Brit Jane Daniels, whose

00:47 dad Andy arrived a couple of days ago to see her complete this challenge.

00:51 You sir can be very proud.

00:54 Original by Motul is no walk in the park, but it has been a cakewalk for Austrian Tobias

00:58 Gebster.

00:59 He's led since day one and is top rookie.

01:01 Congratulations to everyone who's reached Jambu without assistance.

01:05 I have to give big respect to all Mali motor riders out there.

01:11 This is the real deal.

01:12 This is the real rally Dakar, definitely.

01:16 Indian Harit Noah can finally look at how he's done, and having not looked at any results

01:20 since the start, he'll be absolutely stoked when he does.

01:23 11th on the stage, 11th overall, and winner of the Rally 2 class.

01:27 He's the first Indian ever to win a Dakar title.

01:30 Romain Dumontier led the category for most of the rally, and it was some ride from South

01:35 African Bradley Cox.

01:37 Four top ten finishes brings him a Rally 2 podium.

01:40 The top three in Rally 2 were 11, 12 and 13 overall.

01:45 How long before factory teams come knocking?

01:53 The Benavidez fan club was in town at the start.

01:56 Kevin was first on stages three and eight, and again today.

01:59 That's three for him, and three for KTM.

02:10 Toby Price second on the special, and fifth in the final reckoning.

02:14 The double Dakar winner will be back, I'm sure.

02:22 Kevin's brother Luciano was next fastest, and that's the third time that both have made

02:26 the podium on a special.

02:30 It's been a pretty good Dakar for the Benavidez brothers, but Ricky Brabeck's ride at Dakar

02:35 46 has been remarkable, dominant, irresistible.

02:38 He's the boss.

02:39 He was ninth in his first Dakar.

02:41 The next one he finished, he wore nine and won.

02:44 It's his ninth Dakar, and he's number nine this year.

02:46 Superstitious much, Ricky?

02:49 Me and Ross spent like three days with a couple seconds difference, so it was a tight race

02:55 for all of us.

02:57 Ricky was good every single day.

02:58 You know, he deserves the win, but I've got another 11 months to train harder, to work

03:02 better and come back stronger next year.

03:05 Finally on the podium of the Dakar, it tastes really good.

03:12 Ross Branch, every neutral's favorite.

03:14 The Kalahari Ferrari rode great this year, even if he came up short.

03:18 Rick smiling Ross and Frenchman Adrien Van Beveren has entertained us for two weeks on

03:22 two wheels and made his first podium.

03:24 Chapeau, Monsieur.

03:25 10.53, the final gap.

03:29 And while I usually have to work hard for alliterations, it's easy today.

03:32 Brabeck Branch, Beveren, Benavidez.

03:34 The four B's are buzzing.

03:37 Alexander Giroud took a sixth victory in the quads, but it wasn't enough to retain the

03:41 crown.

03:42 Manuel Andujar took a second Dakar.

03:44 Those two have had quite the ding dong this year.

04:06 Would you ever consider doing the Dakar?

04:07 Do you know what it takes?

04:09 Could you handle it?

04:10 The preparation, the cost, the stress.

04:20 The terrain, the fatigue, the never ending stages.

04:29 How would you handle the roller coaster of emotions and the possibility of it all ending

04:33 in disaster?

04:34 Feeling like everything you've worked for has gone in a moment.

04:50 One more day.

04:51 Yeah, one more day.

04:52 We were thinking tomorrow maybe we start with the truck pulling us, just to finish the stage

04:58 for sure.

04:59 My heart is broken.

05:08 Yeah, for sure.

05:11 I tell you how you do it.

05:13 Because no matter what befalls you here, on this, the biggest and toughest rally of them

05:17 all, no matter what happens, the Dakar is an event beyond equal, an adventure that cannot

05:23 be beaten, the experience of a lifetime.

05:26 Of course, to finish is the goal, the ambition, the prize, the joy.

05:37 But to be here at all is already an achievement.

05:40 It can mean everything.

05:42 It can mean even more than that.

05:45 For us, it's been the hardest stage of the rally Dakar today.

05:54 From the moment you arrive, you're part of something bigger.

05:57 You become a part of the Dakar family, because you did the Dakar.

06:05 Two Toyota Hiluxes were in the top four, with French driver Gerland Chicharit in fourth,

06:10 his best result in the Dakar since 2005.

06:13 But had he not lost so much time early on, the story could have been even better.

06:19 Belgian Guillaume de Mevius won third in T3s last year.

06:22 This year, he's bettered it on his first drive in a car, second, an hour and 20 minutes off

06:27 the top.

06:35 Another victory for Seb Loeb today.

06:37 It will be not much consolation to missing out on the one victory he craves more than

06:41 any other.

06:42 It's now five stages this year and five podium finishes from eight Dakars.

06:46 He's now the driver with the most podiums without a win.

06:53 Against a team like Audi who put everything in to win, getting a podium is a big deal

07:23 for him.

07:24 He's not that bad.

07:25 Of course, it's magic.

07:26 For my first Dakar in T1, second between Seinz and Loeb, it's incredible.

07:35 Proud, relieved and especially happy, obviously, of what he has achieved.

07:54 He's incredible at his age and with this project, it was his dream and he made it happen.

08:03 The result of the payback for a long, long and hard work.

08:08 Especially last year, it was a very tough experience for us all.

08:14 It's one of the most complex operations that we ever did.

08:19 Carlos is a legend.

08:20 For me, I could learn so many things from him and I think all the team could do the

08:25 same.

08:28 It's really an honour for me and for the team to work with him.

08:34 I want to dedicate it to the entire team, to my team mates, to Matias and Emil, to Stefan

08:39 and Edouard because they really helped me to win this.

08:46 So that's it.

08:47 Carlos Seinz has won a fourth Dakar, Audi have finally won a Dakar and a partial electric

08:51 car has won the Dakar.

08:53 This ultimate Dakar victory is the past, the present and the future all rolled into

08:58 one.

08:59 Felicidades, campeon.

09:08 In week one, the challenger class was dominated by Eric Gottschalk, who was rocked on the

09:12 rest day by the 19-year-old's disqualification for a non-compliant clutch.

09:16 Coming into the final day, Mitch Guthrie and Kellan Walsh had a 25-minute lead over Spanish

09:21 duo Cristina Gutierrez and Pablo Moreno.

09:24 The Americans have played it safe the last few days and kept out of trouble.

09:27 But today, turbo problems and then transmission issues cost Guthrie over an hour and gave

09:32 Gutierrez the title.

09:34 A historic day.

09:38 She's only the second ever female winner of a Dakar class.

09:41 And of course, commiserations to Mitch and Kellan, who have driven a great race.

09:46 Congratulations to Cristina and Pablo, and final day heartbreak is something that third

09:51 place Roch Aspashuska knows all about from last year.

09:54 In the T4s, Jerome de Sadalier won on the day, but not by enough to change the final

10:22 standings.

10:23 Xavier de Soultre takes the title.

10:25 And after a very difficult Dakar for local fans, Saudi Yasser Seydan makes up the podium.

10:35 Mitchell van den Brink finishes the highest-paced Dutchman in the trucks, third overall for

10:39 the 22-year-old, but he's aiming higher.

10:47 Alice Loprice won today's final stage, finishing just under two hours back in second.

10:55 But victory went to Martin Maciek, the first Czech winner of this class since 2001.

11:00 He won it at a canter and his team built three of the trucks in the top ten.

11:07 But it's time for us to say goodbye to the rocks, the sand, the dunes and the drama.

11:12 We experienced this together, the competitors, the organization, me and all of you, the amazing

11:18 editors who put this incredible show together, Kevin, Emre and Jean-Phi.

11:22 Thank you all for letting me into your lives and your homes for these two weeks.

11:26 It's an honor to have taken this journey with all of you.

11:29 See you in 2025.

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