Dakar Rally 2025 Results: Speeding fines and roadbook woes affect stage 5
2025 Dakar Rally stage five results where birthday boy Luciano Benavides takes the day win as speeding fines and roadbook issues affect Red Bull KTM’s race leader Daniel Sanders.
2024 Dakar Rally Stage 5 in a nutshell – Al Ula > Hail Special: 428km Liaison: 64km
- The last day of week one at the 2025 Dakar Rally and the carrot dangled of a day off tomorrow put a rocket up rider’s backsides today. Just one more ride then a big sleep.
- Race leader Daniel Sanders led the stage away on the Red Bull KTM and set the pace out front, opening the piste trying not to lose time to his rivals who were all chasing his line in the dirt and knowing his lead need eating up.
- Monster Energy Honda’s Tosha Schareina struggled to match Sanders ahead of him on the ground for the first half of the stage. The Spaniard eventually caught the Australian, gaining time but it was off-set by Sanders’ 5:42 bonus time and the net result is the cat and mouse gamble yesterday hasn’t paid off.
- Third and fourth place starters, Honda’s Adrien Van Beveren and Hero Motosports’ Jose Cornejo, also caught Sanders and joined in claiming the bonus points.
- AVB spearheaded the timesheets as the stage unfolded, duking it out with Ross Branch on the timesheets. The W2RC champion was riding with Rally 2 leader (and day winner) Edgar Canet and Luciano Benavides further down the order.
- Branch’s challenge faded towards the finish leaving Luciano Benavides to clock his best result of the race. Placed P2 initially before AVB was handed two minutes for speeding, Luciano took the win on his birthday in the end by a very neat 47s (his number).
- Fellow South American Cornejo was Hero Motosports’ top dog in third overall after an impressive ride – starting third to finish third is not easy. He clocked in 1:31 behind the stage winner.
- Sanders continues to lead with a margin of 6:52 after a whopping eight minutes of speeding time was added after further roadbook issues for the KTM rider. We understand some of the issues affected his speedo which accounts for the overspeed. KTM protested and we await a decision from race organisers.
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Edgar Canet topped the Rally 2 class again (fourth stage win in class for the rookie) to extend his lead with a P8 scratch finish. Michael Docherty got back on track with second in class, p10 overall with Jacob Argubright third and 14th.
2025 Dakar Rally stage 5 results (provisional):
Classification after stage 5 (provisional):
|
1 |
D. SANDERS (AUS) |
KTM |
30h20m15s |
+00:08:00 |
|
2 |
T. SCHAREINA (ESP) |
HONDA |
+00:06:52 |
--:--:-- |
|
3 |
R. BRANCH (BWA) |
HERO |
+00:17:38 |
+00:02:00 |
|
4 |
A. VAN BEVEREN (FRA) |
HONDA |
+00:18:21 |
+00:04:00 |
|
5 |
S. HOWES (USA) |
HONDA |
+00:19:49 |
--:--:-- |
|
6 |
R. BRABEC (USA) |
HONDA |
+00:20:51 |
--:--:-- |
|
7 |
L. BENAVIDES (ARG) |
KTM |
+00:24:05 |
+00:02:00 |
|
8 |
P. QUINTANILLA (CHL) |
HONDA |
+00:32:39 |
--:--:-- |
|
9 |
J. CORNEJO FLORIMO (CHL) |
HERO |
+00:43:40 |
+00:02:00 |
|
10 |
E. CANET (ESP) |
KTM |
+01:01:34 |
+00:06:10 |
|
11 |
L. SANTOLINO (ESP) |
SHERCO |
+01:03:24 |
+00:01:00 |
|
12 |
B. COX (ZAF) |
KTM |
+01:07:36 |
+00:06:00 |
|
13 |
T. EBSTER (AUT) |
KTM |
+01:18:13 |
--:--:-- |
|
14 |
S. SVITKO (SVK) |
KTM |
+01:18:30 |
+00:01:00 |
|
15 |
M. DOCHERTY (ZAF) |
KTM |
+01:32:41 |
--:--:-- |
|
16 |
R. DUMONTIER (FRA) |
HONDA |
+01:51:21 |
+00:02:00 |
|
17 |
J. ARGUBRIGHT (USA) |
HONDA |
+01:53:08 |
--:--:-- |
|
18 |
N. THERIC (FRA) |
KOVE |
+01:54:53 |
--:--:-- |
|
19 |
R. GONÇALVES (PRT) |
SHERCO |
+01:57:57 |
+00:25:00 |
|
20 |
D. DRDAJ (CZE) |
KTM |
+02:21:50 |
+00:00:10 |
|
21 |
T. MULEC (SVN) |
KTM |
+02:23:45 |
+00:24:00 |
|
22 |
K. DABROWSKI (POL) |
KTM |
+02:31:11 |
+00:06:00 |
|
23 |
T. HEDERICS (AUS) |
KTM |
+02:37:13 |
+00:03:10 |
|
24 |
D. NOSIGLIA JAGER (BOL) |
RIEJU |
+02:37:30 |
+00:02:10 |
|
25 |
A. MAIO (PRT) |
YAMAHA |
+03:09:29 |
+00:15:00 |
|
26 |
K. BENAVIDES (ARG) |
KTM |
+03:10:46 |
+00:17:10 |
|
27 |
E. GYENES (ROU) |
KTM |
+03:16:20 |
+00:15:00 |
|
28 |
J. MIROIR (FRA) |
FANTIC |
+03:26:12 |
--:--:-- |
|
29 |
B. MELOT (FRA) |
KTM |
+03:31:36 |
--:--:-- |
|
30 |
C. HERBST (FRA) |
GASGAS |
+03:56:30 |
+00:01:00 |
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