Dakar Trucks, Stage 6: Stacey regains lead with second stage win

Stacey was only seventh at the CP1 of the stage, which was run on a different, shortened route as opposed to the other classes, yet the 57-year-old worked his way up to first as the action concluded.

It was Gerard de Rooy who led for most of the day but the Iveco driver eventually had to settle for second, having fallen short by just seven seconds.

Peter Versluis was the best of the rest in third but he had to face a loss of more than a minute to teammate Stacey.

Kamaz trio Eduard Nikolaev, Dmitry Sotnikov and Andrey Karginov were fourth, fifth and sixth respectively, followed by Czech entrant Martin Kolomy and the final driver from the Russian squad - reigning winner Ayrat Mardeev.

Federico Villagra, at first, carried on with his strong late-stage form from yesterday, which had landed him the overall lead - but the Argentinian lost around two minutes after heading CP1 and couldn’t finish higher than ninth.

As a result, he dropped back to third place in the overall list, allowing MAN duo Stacey and Versluis to retake control of the competition.

Standings after Stage 6