After 48 hours within the dunes, Stage Six of the 2024 Dakar Rally concluded with Monster Energy Honda rider Adrien Van Beveren crusing ahead with the stage win. A slew of acquainted faces adopted his time, together with KTM Factory rider Toby Price, Monster Energy Honda rider Ricky Brabec, GasGas Factory rider Daniel Sanders, and Hero MotoSports rider Ross Branch.
Early within the day, although, Korr Offroad Racing rider Mason Klein could not get his bike to begin. It was the most recent mechanical subject that he is needed to struggle alongside this 12 months’s Dakar. Luckily, as you’ll be able to see on this video, the Dakar Spirit is alive and properly as rivals together with five-time four-wheeled Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah have been joyful to assist him get it began.
I do not learn about you, nevertheless it at all times places a heat feeling in my coronary heart to see this sort of camaraderie amongst rivals. You’ll usually hear riders say that through the occasion, all of them need to win. But after they’re within the bivouac, they’re simply mates hanging out, and with an entire lot of mutual respect as properly. It reveals.
Unfortunately for Klein, whereas he was capable of begin the second a part of Stage Six, he was not capable of full the stage. He lastly retired on Stage Six, which was additional alongside than even his personal group anticipated, given the mechanical points which were plaguing the Korr bike all through the occasion. It was a greater than valiant effort, and we stay up for seeing what he does subsequent.
Here are the highest 10 bike finishers for the 48-hour marathon Stage Six of the 2024 Dakar Rally.
| Rider | Team | Time |
| Adrien Van Beveren (France) | Monster Energy Honda Team | 7 hours, 57 minutes, 29 seconds |
| Toby Price (Australia) | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 8 hours, 01 minute, 42 seconds |
| Ricky Brabec (USA) | Monster Energy Honda Team | 8 hours, 02 minutes, 31 seconds |
| Daniel Sanders (Australia) | Red Bull GasGas Factory Racing | 8 hours, 04 minutes, 24 seconds |
| Ross Branch (Botswana) | Hero MotoSports Team Rally | 8 hours, 07 minutes, 09 seconds |
| Luciano Benavides (Argentina) | Husqvarna Factory Racing | 8 hours, 08 minutes, 08 seconds |
| Kevin Benavides (Argentina) | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 8 hours, 13 minutes, 34 seconds |
| Stefan Svitko (Slovakia) | Slonaft Rally Team | 8 hours, 18 minutes, 48 seconds |
| José Ignacio Cornejo Florimo | Monster Energy Honda Team | 8 hours, 19 minutes, 18 seconds |
| Jeanloup Lepan (France) | Duust Rally Team | 8 hours, 23 minutes, 53 seconds |
2024 Dakar Rally Top 10 Bike Rankings Overall After Stage Six
For the primary time within the 2024 Dakar Rally, Ricky Brabec takes the lead. He’s largely are available in second or third to this point on the phases accomplished this 12 months, nevertheless it goes to point out that consistency is completely key in a rally raid state of affairs.
| Rider | Team | Time |
| Ricky Brabec (USA) | Monster Energy Honda Team | 27 hours, 11 minutes, 21 seconds |
| Ross Branch (Botswana) | Hero MotoSports Team Rally | 27 hours, 12 minutes, 12 seconds |
| Adrien Van Beveren (France) | Monster Energy Honda Team | 27 hours, 20 minutes, 42 seconds |
| José Ignacio Cornejo Florimo | Monster Energy Honda Team | 27 hours, 25 minutes, 35 seconds |
| Toby Price (Australia) | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 27 hours, 38 minutes, 21 seconds |
| Kevin Benavides (Argentina) | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 27 hours, 39 minutes, 54 seconds |
| Daniel Sanders (Australia) | Red Bull GasGas Factory Racing | 27 hours, 47 minutes, 11 seconds |
| Luciano Benavides (Argentina) | Husqvarna Factory Racing | 27 hours, 58 minutes, 47 seconds |
| Stefan Svitko (Slovakia) | Slonaft Rally Team | 28 hours, 19 minutes, 03 seconds |
| Jeanloup Lepan (France) | Duust Rally Team | 28 hours, 43 minutes, 03 seconds |
Now that the monster marathon that was Stage Six is over, everybody has a relaxation day in Riyadh to recuperate earlier than tackling the rest of the 2024 Dakar Rally. Six phases stay, however given the very fact of the Prologue and the 48-hour marathon of Stage Six, all of the rivals are properly and actually into the again half of the 2024 Dakar Rally now.