Jan 17 : Argentina’s Luciano Benavides won the Dakar Rally motorcycle category by two seconds, the narrowest margin ever, after American Ricky Brabec lost his way late in Saturday’s final stage in Saudi Arabia.
The KTM rider, whose older brother Kevin won the Dakar in 2021 and 2023, came home second in the 105 km stage in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port of Yanbu with Honda’s overnight leader Brabec 10th.
In a gruelling endurance event spanning two weeks and 8,000 km over rocky roads, through canyons and vast expanses of desert dunes, two times winner Brabec made his mistake with seven km remaining.
Spaniard Tosha Schareina finished third overall for Honda.
