The Dakar Rally resumed on Sunday after a day's break. Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah stayed comfortably ahead overall, while Sebastien Loeb moved back into second place after winning stage seven of the rally. Loeb's second stage win of 2022 left France's nine times world rally champion, driving for the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team, some 45 minutes adrift of his factory Toyota rival in the car category with five stages to go. Al Attiyah, chasing his fourth Dakar title in the desert dunes, was second in the 402km timed seventh stage from the capital Riyadh west to Al Dawadimi but more than five minutes slower than Loeb. 'The second week of the Dakar is another race… today from the beginning we...
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