Australian Toby Price has been left to reflect on the agony of losing the Dakar Rally by 43 seconds in the race’s closest-ever finish
Red Bull KTM rider left to rue mistakes at ‘waypoint’ markersPhotograph: Florent Gooden/DPPI/REX/ShutterstockPhotograph: Florent Gooden/DPPI/REX/ShutterstockAfter a near-9,000km slog and more than 44 hours of racing over two weeks of unforgiving desert terrain, Toby Price could only gaze forlornly at a timesheet which showed he had lost the Dakar Rally by the cruellest of margins – just 43 seconds.
This was the most tightly-fought battle the race had witnessed in its 45 editions, with Price narrowly losing out to another former winner and his Red Bull KTM teammate Kevin Benavides.Never before had a biker lost the Dakar lead on the last stage and never before had the margin of defeat been so close, after two-time winner Price had set out on Sunday’s 14th and final stage in Saudi Arabia just 12 seconds ahead of Benavides.
Hailed by the organisers for his sporting response to losing so narrowly, the 35-year-old Price was quick to salute Benavides for his “great job”. “Disappointment ... just a little frustrated that, on the last day, they played with these 20-metre rules for the waypoints, and I had to turn back and get three of them. Yeah, hard to take at the moment, but at the end of the day I’m going home in one piece and we got a Dakar trophy.”
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