Overview
- Luciano Benavides won the motorcycle category on a KTM by 2 seconds over Ricky Brabec after roughly 8,000 km of racing.
- Brabec lost time at km 96.3 of the 105 km final special when a roadbook note led Honda riders onto a wrong line that required a long detour.
- Adrian Van Beveren said the sketch for the critical note was approximate at a junction, describing the waypoint as tricky to validate near a sea inlet.
- Honda indicated it will lodge an appeal and Brabec immediately sought rally director David Castera at the finish, though overturns are considered difficult.
- Nasser Al-Attiyah secured the cars title, his sixth Dakar and first for Dacia, with Ford’s Nani Roma second, Mattias Ekström third, and Sébastien Loeb fourth.