Overview
- Al-Attiyah ends Stage 11 with an overall advantage of 8 minutes 40 seconds over Nani Roma, with Sébastien Loeb third and Mattias Ekström fourth.
- Ford locked out the stage podium with Ekström ahead of Romain Dumas and Carlos Sainz, narrowing time to the leader without changing the rally’s top order.
- Toyota’s Henk Lategan lost roughly 1 hour 40 minutes to a rear-left bearing failure, tumbling out of victory contention after starting the day second overall.
- In RallyGP, Brabec executed strategy to let Luciano Benavides assume the overall lead by 23 seconds, positioning the American to chase on Friday.
- Skyler Howes took his first bike stage win of this Dakar ahead of Adrien van Beveren, as injured Daniel Sanders continued but remained out of the title fight.