Bahrain team wins the sixth stage of the Dakar Rally

Orlando Terranova driver for Bahrain Red Xtreme team claimed the sixth stage title today, as the Dakar Rally reached the halfway point in Riyadh.

The Argentine driver, with his Spanish assistant, Dani Oliveiras, is driving one of the team's cars, Prodrive Hunter, and was faster by one minute and 6 seconds than the Swede Matias Ekström in the sixth stage and a distance of 348 km, thus continuing his rise to seventh place in the general classification of the rally.

The quality of Terranova's driving quality was underlined by the fact that he was more than six minutes faster today than Nasser Al-Attiyah who consolidated his lead in first place, despite his tenth best time on the stage.

Bahrain Red Extreme's other two-time Dakar Rally winner Nani Roma and co-driver Alex Haro finished fifth on the stage in a Prodrive Hunter.

It was a frustrating day for nine-times World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb, who lost some time in the navigation but completed the first half of the Dakar in third overall along with co-worker Fabian Lorken in a Prodrive Hunter.

Sebastian was just one minute and 31 seconds behind Saudi Arabia's Yazid Al Rajhi, who trailed leader Al Attiyah by 48 minutes and 54 seconds as the rally reached its middle, with six stages remaining and nearly 2,000 kilometers to compete, when Bahrain Red Extreme rebuilds Cars in preparation for the rest of the rally.

The contestants still have six more stages before returning to Jeddah with a distance of 2,179 km, a distance similar to driving from Paris to Casablanca in Morocco.

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