2025 Dakar Rally Stage 11: Mattias Ekstrom bags P1 in the cars category, Tosha Schareina wins in the bikes class

The penultimate stage of the 2025 Dakar Rally saw a lot of action, which led to a massive shuffle in the standings of all classes! Mattias Ekstrom bagged P1 in the cars class, while Tosha Schareina crossed the chequered flag with the fastest time, winning in the bikes category. Here's more

2025 Dakar Rally Stage 11: Bikes category standings

Stage 11 of the 2025 Dakar Rally saw team Monster Energy Honda HRC's Tosha Schareina posting the fastest time on two wheels and securing the stage win. Luciano Benavides, who's racing for the Red Bull KTM Factory team, finished second, while Adrien Van Beveren of team Monster Energy Honda HRC, took third to round off the podium in the bikes category

2025 Dakar Rally Stage 11: Cars category standings

Mattias Ekstrom from the Ford M-Sport team won the eleventh stage of the 2025 Dakar Rally in the cars category, followed closely by Nasser Al-Attiyah of The Dacia Sandraiders team, just 41 seconds behind. Yazid Al Rajhi who's driving for the Overdrive Racing team in P3, completing the podium in the cars category.

2025 Dakar Rally Stage 11: Trucks category standings

Martin Macik has won the eleventh stage in the Trucks category racing for the team MM technology, followed by Kees Koolen in P2, who's also racing for the MM technology team and Vaidotas Zala in P3 who's racing for Skuba Team De Rooy FTP

Indians at the 2025 Dakar Rally

Indian rally driver Sanjay Takale finished 11th overall in the stage. He stands at P18 in his class, ahead of the short 33km final stage 12.

Sanjay commented: "I was looking forward to push today but one cant fight the weather. Happy with my performance on this short 33 km section. Delighted with another top 10 result. We have had Two top 10s and Two top 11 rankings out of 11 stages . Tomorrow is last day a short one."