The orange clan had dominated the Dakar Rally field, with\u00a0Edgar Canet\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Sanders\u00a0sharing success on three specials between them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the battle has now taken a different turn, with a first victory for Monster Energy Honda HRC, specifically by\u00a0Tosha Schareina, who won yesterday’s stage in AlUla, where he enjoyed his first stage win in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Spaniard, who finished runner-up to Sanders last year and on the outcome of the W2RC season, is positioning himself for the big marathon stage that awaits the favourites later today. He has taken his place on the provisional overall podium, 1’13\u2019\u2019 behind his designated rival\u00a0Daniel Sanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Australian was obliged to open the way for much of the 421 km against the clock on the programme. The only other rider to join him on the tracks was\u00a0Ricky Brabec, who is proving to be another man in form at the start of this Dakar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brabec\u00a0has moved into second place in the general rankings, 1’07\u2019\u2019 behind\u00a0Sanders, confirming the strength of the Honda team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the KTM team,\u00a0Edgar Canet\u00a0was slightly behind the pace compared to the first three days and dropped one place down the rankings to fourth, 8\u201946\u2019\u2019 behind the leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The situation in the Rally 2 category has changed dramatically since the start in Yanbu. After\u00a0Neels Theric’s electrical problems, which caused him to lose 2 hours and 50 minutes on the prologue, and\u00a0Harith Noah’s crash, it is now\u00a0Tobias Ebster\u00a0who has lost his chance to win the title for which he was one of the favourites (after 9th<\/sup>\u00a0overall and 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0in the R2 class in 2025). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to a hand injury following a crash, the Austrian rider is expected to withdraw: although the rules allow him to resume racing, he will no longer be able to make his riding count in the battle between\u00a0Mike Docherty, today’s winner, and\u00a0Martim Ventura, who is 3’32\u2019\u2019 behind the South African.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The orange clan had dominated the Dakar Rally field, with\u00a0Edgar Canet\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Sanders\u00a0sharing success on three specials between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[311,310],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-motorsports","tag-rally"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8.jpg",1040,565,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8-300x163.jpg",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8-768x417.jpg",640,348,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8-1024x556.jpg",640,348,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8.jpg",1040,565,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8.jpg",1040,565,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8-825x565.jpg",825,565,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/csm_schareina_05f2555fa8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7646,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions\/7646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}