Love Pulse Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 X-Ride Mini driver Carlos Sainz managed to take the lead in the Dakar Rally 2020 rankings, after winning the third stage of the event on the ground in Saudi Arabia. Signs has become the third different driver from the Mini team to win a stage in this edition of the Dakar Rally, where he recorded the fastest time in the stage that started and ended in Neum with a length of 427 km on board his Baghi car. The Spaniard advanced at this stage three minutes and 31 seconds apart from the Qatari title holder Nasser Al-Attiyah, as he outperformed the Toyota driver in the overall ranking by a difference of five minutes. Stephen Petransel - the other X-Raid Baggy driver - managed to keep up with the pace of most of the stage, before losing ten minutes in the final section. Jacob Prizigonski and independent driver Yasser Saeedan completed the first four in this stage on two mini SUVs. Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso - who lost more than two hours yesterday due to the accident and the damage that required time to fix - was the fifth fastest driver in the Tuesday stage, completing them just six minutes behind Sainz. Yesterday's leaderboard, Orlando Terranova lost 13 minutes to Sainz, but he is still in the top three in the overall standings, having more than ten minutes in front of Toyota Yazid Al-Rajhi and Petransil. In sixth place is Matteo Serradori - who drives the Baghi "Century CR6" - after losing 20 minutes, slightly ahead of yesterday's stage winner, Genniel de Villiers (Toyota). Khaled Al Qasimi - who started the stage today while he is in seventh place - was subjected to an accident in which his independent Peugeot car overturned 300 km from the start of the stage, where he withdrew from the event. Among the outsiders was also the return to the Dakar competitions, Vladimir Vasiliev, who seemed to be on his way to the top ten in the general ranking before the X-Ride Mini flared.
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