Sébastien Loeb has not yet fully abdicated on Dakar 2022. The day after the rest day, the Frenchman won in the 7th stage, 701 kilometers long (402 kilometers of special) between Riyadh and Al Dawadimi.
The Prodrive driver and his co-driver Fabian Lurquin were 5'26 '' ahead of Nasser al-Attiyah.
But in the general classification, the Qatari driver remains clearly in the lead behind the wheel of his Toyota with 44'59 '' on Loeb, who is once again his runner-up, and 53'31 '' on Yazeed Al-Rahji (Toyota).