Nasser Al-Attiyah, Toby Price, Seth Quintero and Rokas Baciuška all starred during Thursday’s punishing Stage Five at the 45th edition of motorsport’s toughest test of endurance, the Dakar Rally. The compact sand on Thursday’s Stage Five caused plenty of problems, but it couldn’t have gone much better for defending car champion Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel in their Toyota GR DKR Hilux T1+. “Barreda had a crash so we stopped for him for about five or six minutes to make sure he was all good,” Price said. There was another stage win in T4 for Baciuška and co-driver Oriol Vidal, the 23-year-old Lithuanian moving 4m33s closer to the summit of the leaderboard.

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