Stage Five of the Dakar Rally

There was a change in leader of bike class after stage five.

Marc Coma won the stage in the bike class and in doing so, along with some misfortune to fellow Spaniard Joan Barreda Bort. Coma won by twelve minutes and fifty-four seconds over Jordi Viladoms with Polish rider Kuba Przygonski twenty-two minutes and forty-five seconds back.

Joan Barreda Bort had his worst stage of this year's Dakar Rally, finishing seventeenth, forty-four minutes and twenty seconds back of Coma. Coma take the overall lead in the class by forty-one minutes and ten seconds over Barreda Bort. Francisco López Contardo remains third overall despite finishing twenty-seventh on the day, fifty-one minutes and thirty-nine seconds back. López Contardo is fifty-three minutes and forty-one seconds back of Coma in the overall standings.

Viladoms jumps to fourth overall, fifty-eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds back of Coma with Alain Duclos dropping back to fifth after finishing eleventh for stage five. He is now over an hour back of the overall lead. Olivier Pain drops back a position to sixth as Przygonski moves up to seventh from tenth just ahead of defending Dakar winner in the bike class Cyril Despres.

Sergio Lafuente picked up his first stage win of the 2014 Dakar Rally when he defeated Ignacio Casale by a minute and twenty-one seconds. Rafeł Sonik finished the stage in third, forty-two minutes and fourteen seconds back of the Uruguayan.

Casale maintains his lead in the quad by thirteen minutes and twenty-eight seconds ahead of Lafuente with Sonik fifty minutes and twenty-eights seconds back. Dutch rider Sebastian Husseini had a disappointing day, finishing three hours three minutes and twenty seconds back of Lafuente. Husseini only drops to fourth in class overall, three hours fifteen minutes and thirteen seconds back of Casale overall.

Nani Roma won his second stage of the 2014 Dakar Rally and in doing so retakes the overall lead from Carlos Sainz. He defeated 2009 Dakar Rally winner Giniel de Villiers by four minutes and twenty seconds. Robby Gordon finished third, twenty minutes and twelve seconds back. Orlando Terranova finished fourth, twenty minutes and forty-four seconds back with Mini teammates Nasser Al-Attiyah and Stéphane Peterhansel finishing fifth, twenty-one minutes and thirty-eight seconds back and sixth twenty-three minutes and fifty-five seconds back respectively on the day.

Roma leads by twenty-six minutes and twenty-eight seconds over Al-Attiyah with Terranova in third, thirty-one minutes and forty-six seconds back. Peterhansel is fourth, thirty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds back with Giniel de Villiers sixth, forty-one minutes and twenty-four seconds back. Carlos Sainz drops to sixth, fifty-nine minutes and forty-three seconds back of Roma after finishing nineteenth in stage five, one hour one minute and forty-nine seconds back of Roma's stage winning time.

Robby Gordon is nineteenth in the car class, four hours thirty-four minutes and twenty-nine seconds back.

Dmitry Sotnikov picked up the win in the truck class by two minutes and fifty-six over fellow Kamaz driver and Russian Andrey Karginov. Gérard de Rooy finished twelve minutes and seven seconds back in third and maintained the class lead. Karginov is second, thirty-two minutes back of de Rooy in the overall standings with Eduard Nikolaev third, one hour nine minutes and forty-one seconds. Marcel van Vilet had a disastrous day falling from behind de Rooy in second to ninth, two hours and twenty-eight seconds back after finishing twenty-third in stage five, one hour thirty-six minutes and twenty-three seconds back of Sotnikov.

There were a few noticeable withdrawals. Stage two winner in the bike class withdrew prior to the start of stage four. He was thirtieth at the time. American Kevin Muggleton withdrew from the bike class during stage three.

In the car class, Guerlain Chicherit withdrew during stage four. The Frenchman had finished fifth in stage three and finished fifth in class in 2010. American Spencer Trenery withdrew prior to the third stage.

And in the truck class, 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona and former Formula One driver Jan Lammers withdrew prior to stage five. The Dutchman was nineteenth in the class.