Lategan takes Dakar prologue, Indian rider Noah fractures wrist

Reuters - 03/01
Toyota's Henk Lategan won the Dakar Rally car prologue in Saudi Arabia on Friday, ahead of Ford M-Sport's Mattias Ekstroem and five-times champion Nasser Al-Attiyah with the Dacia Sandriders team.
Jan 3 (Reuters) - Toyota's Henk Lategan won the Dakar Rally car prologue in Saudi Arabia on Friday, ahead of Ford M-Sport's Mattias Ekstroem and five-times champion Nasser Al-Attiyah with the Dacia Sandriders team.
The times from the 29km prologue around the south-western city of Bisha determine the starting order for Saturday's first 413km stage but do not count towards the overall classification.
South African Lategan, who missed last year's Dakar due to a shoulder injury and last won a stage in 2022, beat Sweden's Ekstroem by one second with Qatari Al-Attiyah a further 19 seconds back.
"It wasn’t a perfect drive, we made a few mistakes here and there, but it was a good stage. We had a good rhythm quite early on," said ...
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