Dakar Rally TICKER: KTM´s Laia Sanz about the stage: "Today was a difficult day! 150 km inside the dust and I didn't found my rhythm. Tomorrow's stage will be similar (maybe tougher than today), but I hope it will be better for me. Lots of encouragement to my teammate Sam Sunderland! I hope you are fine!!"

00:10 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Maybe KAMAZ DRAMA in the trucks: At 23:30 only nine trucks are in the finish. Provisionally winner is the Kamaz crew of Eduard Nikolaev with 04:35:08 in front of the Villagra-Iveco (+27:57), Martin Kolomy (Tatra, +38:49), T. Sugawara (Hino, +1:13:15) and Gert Huzink (Renault, +01:16:33). The second Kamaz of Mardeev, who was second in the last WP, finished eventually 7th with +01:23:38, the Kamaz of Shibalov, who was third at WP6, is not in the finish...

23:35 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Peugeot´s Cyril Despres from the stage: "I’m really not sure exactly what happened. We approached gently, braked, and went over a rock that somehow kicked up and ripped off the right-rear of the car, with a lot of damage. It can be fixed, but not until late at night. We’ll have to wait for the truck. What happened is hard to compute because it’s such a slow place: Not the sort of thing you would normally look out for."

23:15 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Australian Toby Price commented today´s stage: "Damn today was tough, we thought starting in a big group was going to be a nice Sunday ride but turns out it was absolute chaos! I struggled to find a waypoint which is what cost me that 11min we lost today. All in all we finished Stage 4 in 15th but I’m not stressed!"

22:40 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Peugeot Sport confirmed: French 3008DKR Maxi crew Cyril Despres and David Castera are still on the trans and are waiting for the assistance truck. 

22:08 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Peugeot´s Carlos Sainz today also had to fight with the tires: "The beginning of the stage was not good! We got stuck and a little later we had a puncture. Really a difficult stage, heavy for the Amateurs!"

22:00 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: At 22:00 CET (16:00 local time) only 23 cars reached today´s finish line. In the Side-by-Sides only team Garrouste from France finished, in the trucks the Kamaz of Nikolaev, Mardeev and Shibalov are leading in front of the Ivecos of Villagra and Ardavichus in WP06.

22:00 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Not a good day for Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz: "First we had to turn around in a canyon, caught a slow puncture in the dust, got another one, digged in the sand 4:15 minutes, then a third puncture but we only had two spare tires, tried to reach a WP with three working tyres, digged 40 minutes but repaired tyre number four – made it to the end. Gutted. Back to service," Dirk von Zitzewitz reported. "To cut things short: The Dakar has has bitten today. You can’t afford to have days like these if you would like to win the event. Frustrated. Disappointed. Tomorrow we need "Desert Wings" for our Toyota!"

21:48 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Happy Czech: Martin Prokop finished again in the top 10 today and is still 9th overall. "10th place and defending 9th place in the general classification! What a difficult and crazy day," he reported.

21:45 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Al Attiyah with tire-problems and bad luck in the dunes. As he reported, they destroyed two tires had had no spare tires anymore, so they had to take care more. In the dunes he hit a hole and stuck for thirty minutes, later they stuck again for twenty- to thirty minutes. "Anything can happen. It’s still a long race."

21:43 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Sam Sunderland retirement officially confirmed by KTM Factory Racing: "Forced to abandon this year’s event Sam Sunderland is receiving medical examinations in Lima, Peru following a crash today on stage four of the Dakar. Get well soon Sam."

21:15 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Great day for X-raid Mini´s Mikko Hirvonen and Andreas Schulz: They just finished the stage and climbed the fourth position, 34:36 minutes behind the Peugeot family. The Mini of Yazeed Al Rajhi finished 9th with +43:05 mins. Bad day for Cyril Despres: After he had a problem with a rear wheel, he is still in the stage and even don´t finish WP6 yet. For the Toyota crews also not a good day: Bernhard ten Brinke lost 42:22 minutes today, Nasser Al Attiyah 54:21 mins, Giniel de Villiers 1:13:40 hours.

20:51 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: KTM´s Matthias Walkner (3rd today in the bikes, 4th overall) is happy: "Stage 4 brought an exhausting day and my personal chaos in the dunes! I've never experienced such soft sand! The final 100 kilometers I attacked hard to make up for the time I lost in the dunes. So i'm really happy with 3rd today!"

20:42 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Renault Duster with bad luck: Fighting in the top twenty, the Argentinian Duster of Spataro/Hansen actually in WP4 broke the right front suspension and the team is waiting for the Fast Assistance.

20:40 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: A stage designed for Peugeot? The first 9 (!) cars reached the finish line of today´s SS04. And something looks different: While three Peugeot cars are in the finish within max. 3:16 mins difference (Loeb, Sainz, Peterhansel), the fourth car, a SMG Buggy of the Italian Emilio Amos (!) needed 35:46 minutes more! "This stage was too hard for Amateurs" said Stéphane Peterhansel in the finish. Maybe there will be some discussions today... Fifth is the private Peugeot of Sheik Al Qassimi from the UAE with 40:29 mins gap. First Toyota is privateer Lucio Alvarez on 6 with +41:05 in front of Bernhard Ten Brinke (Toyota, +42:22) and Martin Prokop (Ford Ranger, +47:04).

20:21 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Russian Sergej Kariakin is the winner in the qads today! He finished 43 seconds in front of Ignacio Casale from Chile and 5:31 in front of Alexis Hernandez from Peru. Fourth is the Argentinian Gallego (+08:01), fifth the French Dutrie (+08:14).

19:48 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Even if French Cyril Despres lost massive time after a broken wheel, we actually can see three Peugeot "Trucks" in the front of today´s SS04: Stéphane Peterhansel, Sebastien Loeb and Carlos Sainz. Fastest Toyota now is Dutch Bernhard ten Brinke as 5th with 11:19 minutes gap in front of - surprisingly - the SMG Buggy of the Italian Eugenio Amos with his French navigator Sebastien Delaunay.

18:42 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Good News: French Adrian van Beveren (Yamaha) is the winner of today´s SS04 in the bikes! Provisionally second is his teammate Xavier de Soultrait (+5:01), third the Austrian KTM-rider Matthias Walkner (+7:10). The top five are completed with Pablo Quintanilla (Chile, Husqvarna, 7:32) and Stefan Svitko (KTM, +7:45).

18:27 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Good News: Yesterday´s crashed Mini-pilot Joan "Nani" Roma is fine, without any broken bones but with muscle pain. Meanwhile Nasser Al Attiyah is on the road again but lost massive time.

18:21 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Sam Sunderland (KTM) had to retire. He is actually brought to Hospital via Helicopter. Reports telling about a trauma to his back.

18:13 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Now also Nasser Al Attiyah with his Toyota maybe has problems and is not moving. Meanwhile the trucks started in the race and passed the first checkpoint: The Kamaz of Eduard Nikolaev is leading in front of the Liaz of Martin Macik +35 seconds, Villagra (Iveco +0:39), Shibalov (Kamaz, +1:01) and Loprais (Tatra, +1:09).

18:06 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Problems for Cyril Despres and his Peugeot: As the organizer said, he is standing with a broken wheel and waiting for the fast assistance...  

17:24 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Again problems for Mini? Orlando Terranova started 15th today in the stage but didn´t reach the WP3 until now while the leading 10 cars are still at WP5...  

17:22 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: In the bikes, French Adrian van Beveren (Yamaha) has taken the lead 6 seconds in front of Spanish Joan Barreda Bort (Honda) and 12 seconds in frint of Spanish KTM-rider Barragan Nevado. They were followed by the French Honda-Biker Metge (+2:51) and his compatriot Xavier de Soultrait (Yamaha).

16:42 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: The cars are in the race and we actually can see a triple fight between the Peugeot DKR of Sebastien Loeb, Stéphane Peterhanse and Cyril Despres, which are only 1:39 mins from eachother. They were followed by a triple of Toyota Gazoo´s of Bernhard Ten Brinke, Giniel de Villiers and Nasser Al Attiyah (+3:17 mins). Best Mini is actually Jakub Przygonski on 9th position with +8:02 mins.

16:38 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Casale leading in the quads: The quads started nearly together with the bikes. Actual leader in the Chilenian Casale 24 seconds in front of Hernandez, 1:19 of Russian Sergej Kariakin, 1:59 of French Dutrie and 2:14 of Argentinian Gallego, all driving with Yamaha quads.

15:21 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: The bikes are in the race and the first passed the first checkpoint. After 26:14 minutes of racing the Spaniard Joan Barreda Bort took the lead with his Honda, followed 28 seconds by Adrian van Beveren (France, Yamaha), 30 seconds by Barragan Nevado from Spain (KTM), 50 seconds by the French Xavier de Soultrait (Yamaha) and 1:03 minutes by the Austrian Matthias Walkner (KTM). 

14:16 CET | DAKAR LIVE TEAM

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Dakar Rally TICKER: Welcome to the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally 2018

Good Morning from South America! Today will be the fourth stage of the Rally - and it will be tough again! The beach where the stopwatch is started lends itself perfectly to mass starts, with neat lines of 15 bikes and 4-abreast acceleration contests for the cars. After this sprint along the beach, the drivers will tackle one of the longest-ever sandy sections in the history of the Dakar: a total of 100 km, with dunes of all sizes! This special stage is where certain racers will get ahead, especially since the last canyon is a little tricky to find...

Today the bike will start first at 07:30 local time (13:30 CET), followed by the Quads at 07:40 local time (13:40 CET), Cars at 09:05 (15:05 CET), Side-by-Side 09:53 (15:53 CET) and Trucks 11:17 (17:17 CET). All groups are driving 196 km Stage, 504 km Liaison so 800 km overall.

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