Overview
- Nasser Al-Attiyah finished 9m42s clear of Ford’s Nani Roma after the 105km finale, clinching the cars crown in Saudi Arabia.
- His penultimate-day success was his 50th Dakar stage win, tying Ari Vatanen and Stéphane Peterhansel for the most in the car category.
- KTM’s Luciano Benavides snatched the motorcycle title by the smallest margin in Dakar history after Ricky Brabec made a navigation error about 7km from the finish.
- Spain’s Edgar Canet won the final bike stage, while Honda’s Tosha Schareina secured third overall behind Benavides and Brabec.
- Ford’s Mattias Ekström won the last car stage to lock in third overall, holding off Dacia’s Sébastien Loeb by 37 seconds.