{"id":30742,"date":"2025-01-07T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/35607-dakar-2025-stage-3-saood-variawa-makes-history-sebastien-loeb-forced-withdraw"},"modified":"2025-01-07T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:10:28","slug":"35607-dakar-2025-stage-3-saood-variawa-makes-history-sebastien-loeb-forced-withdraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/35607-dakar-2025-stage-3-saood-variawa-makes-history-sebastien-loeb-forced-withdraw","title":{"rendered":"Dakar 2025 – Stage 3: Saood Variawa makes history, S\u00e9bastien Loeb forced to withdraw"},"content":{"rendered":"

After only three stages, the 2025 edition of the Dakar has already lost two of its main favorites. After Carlos Sainz yesterday, it’s S\u00e9bastien Loeb who has to drop out and will not see the finish line in Shubaytah. Despite his return to the bivouac after the 48-hour time trial, the FIA forced the Spanish driver to abandon due to the damaged roll cage on his Ford Raptor.<\/p>\n

Same punishment therefore for S\u00e9bastien Loeb. The nine-time world rally champion made a mistake as early as the 12th kilometer of the stage that led competitors from Bisha to Al Henakiyah today. In a sandy section with multiple traps, the Dacia Sandrider number 219 rolled over. Fortunately, Loeb and his co-driver emerged unscathed and were even able to reach the finish line with more than an hour behind the day’s winner.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, as with Sainz, the roll bar of the Romanian car was too damaged to get the green light from race management and continue. Another disappointment for Loeb, who will not win this year’s event, which, decidedly, is taking its time to favor him.<\/p>\n

Smile that Saood Variawa and his French co-driver Fran\u00e7ois Cazalet might have. Aboard his Toyota Hilux, the South African became, at just 19 years old, the youngest winner of a stage in the world’s biggest rally-raid. Second, Guerlain Chicherit regains momentum after a challenging start to the event.<\/p>\n

In the overall standings, Henk Lategan is still leading the race, but it’s now Nasser Al-Attiyah who holds the runner-up position, just under seven minutes behind. They are followed by Mattias Ekstr\u00f6m, Yazeed Al Rajhi, and Lucas Moraes.<\/p>\n

Stage 3 Ranking<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nConcurrents<\/td>\nTeam<\/td>\nTimes \/ Gaps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/strong><\/td>\nVariawa \/ Cazalet<\/td>\nToyota Gazoo Racing<\/td>\n03h 16′ 52”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/strong><\/td>\nChicherit \/ Winocq<\/td>\nX-Raid Mini JCW Team<\/td>\n+ 00h 00′ 33”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/strong><\/td>\nQuintero \/ Zenz<\/td>\nToyota Gazoo Racing<\/td>\n+ 00h 01′ 48”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/strong><\/td>\nDe Mevius \/ Baumel<\/td>\nX-Raid Mini JCW Team<\/td>\n+ 00h 01′ 55”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/strong><\/td>\nFerreira \/ Palmeiro<\/td>\nX-Raid Mini JCW Team<\/td>\n+ 00h 03′ 15”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

General classification<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nConcurrents<\/td>\nTeam<\/td>\nTimes \/ Gaps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/strong><\/td>\nLategan \/ Cummings<\/td>\nToyota Gazoo Racing<\/td>\n19h 04′ 53”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/strong><\/td>\nAl-Attiyah \/ Boulanger<\/td>\nDacia<\/td>\n+ 00h 07′ 17”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/strong><\/td>\nEkstr\u00f6m \/ Bergkvist<\/td>\nFord M-Sport<\/td>\n+ 00h 09′ 34”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/strong><\/td>\nAl Rajhi \/ Gottschalk<\/td>\nOverdrive Racing<\/td>\n+ 00h 11′ 45”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/strong><\/td>\nMoraes \/ Monleon<\/td>\nToyota Gazoo Racing<\/td>\n+ 00h 19′ 40”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 19, the Toyota driver became the youngest stage winner in Dakar history while S\u00e9bastien Loeb rolled his car in the first kilometers of the special stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":45243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[189,1603,1656],"class_list":["post-30742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","tag-dakar","tag-toyota","tag-variawa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDakar 2025 - Stage 3: Saood Variawa makes history, S\u00e9bastien Loeb forced to withdraw - Motorsinside English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/35607-dakar-2025-stage-3-saood-variawa-makes-history-sebastien-loeb-forced-withdraw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dakar 2025 - 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