Stage Nine of the Dakar Rally

Stage nine of the 2014 Dakar Rally has seen two competitors extend their class lead while two had their leads significantly.

Marc Coma won stage nine by a minute and forty-one seconds over Joan Barreda Bort with Cyril Despres rounding out the podium five minutes and twenty-eight seconds back. Coma leads Barreda Bort by forty minutes and nineteen seconds in the overall standings with Jordi Viladoms making it an all-Spainish podium, a hour thirty-eight minutes and forty-five seconds back. Despres moved up to eighth into the standings just under two and a half hours back of Coma.

American Mike Johnson finished two hours eleven minutes and nineteen seconds back of Coma on stage nine it fifty-eighth place. Johnson is seventy-eighth, over thirty-three seconds back.

Sebastian Husseini ended Ignacio Casale's three stage winning streak by defeating the Chilean in his home country by twenty-four minutes and fifty-eight seconds. Rafał Sonik finished third, thirty-two seconds back of Casale with Sergio Lafuente twenty-seven seconds back of the Pole in fourth.

Casale remains the leader in the quad class, twenty-two minutes and thirty-nine seconds ahead of Lafuente. Sonik is forty-six minutes and twenty-eight seconds back in third with Husseini fourth, still over three hours back of Casale.

Stéphane Peterhansel won his third stage of the 2014 Dakar Rally by two minutes and seventeen seconds over Mini teammate Nasser Al-Attiyah. Nani Roma finished eleven minutes and thirty-six seconds back in third with Orlando Terranova and Giniel de Villiers rounding out the top five.

Roma's lead over Peterhansel is down to twelve minutes and ten seconds with four stages to go. Terranova is third, fifty-four minutes and thirty-three seconds back with Al-Attiyah and de Villiers tied for fourth at fifty-nine minutes and forty-six minutes back.

Carlos Sainz had a dreadful stage finishing in twenty-sixth nearly two hours back of Peterhansel. He has fallen back to eighth nearly three and a half hours back of Roma.

BJ Baldwin finished nineteenth, an hour thirteen minutes and twenty-eights seconds back of Peterhansel. Robby Gordon came home in twenty-eighth, nearly two hours back. Gordon is twenty-third, nine hours and forty minutes back. Baldwin is thirty-first, over fourteen hours behind Roma.

Andrey Karginov won his second consecutive stage today by nineteen minutes and seven seconds over Gérard de Rooy, cutting the Dutchman's lead in class down to thirteen minutes and twenty-eight seconds. Eduard Nikolaev finished twenty-eight minutes and forty-seven seconds back. He is an hour twenty-one minutes and forty-one seconds of de Rooy in the overall truck standings.