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Having lost its sister #7 car to a turbo failure in the early stages of the race, Barnicoat helped to steer the car to a single-lap advantage over the nearest competition, with the #3 RAM Racing Mercedes AMG GT3, Dinamic Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3, and Team Parker Racing Bentley Continental GT3 all at one stage leading the chasing pack. The #72 Inception Racing with Optimum McLaren 720S GT3 was also within this field in the early stages, as Brendan Iribe battled fiercely with the #46 Monster VR46 Kessel car of Valentino Rossi. The Porsche’s lead was short-lived, however, as Roberto Pampinini was unable to prevent the advances of Andy Meyrick’s Team Parker Bentley who eased past into Turn One with 30 minutes remaining. The GT4 class was led by the #77 Optimum Motorsport McLaren 570S, having taken advantage of a 25-second Stop-and-Go penalty to long-time leader #90 Scuderia Villorba Corse Mercedes AMG for crossing the white line at pit exit on two occasions.

Joan Barreda, the fourth Honda biker, sits in seventh place despite a string of navigation errors and has taken three stage wins so far, bringing his career tally to 27 and making him the third most prolific Dakar biker of all time, behind Stéphane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres, tied with 33. X-Raid and Toyota could only look on helplessly as Jakub Przygoński sank to fourth overall at 1 h 11 (although he remains in contention for a podium spot), Orlando Terranova threw in the towel in stage 5 due to an electrical problem, rising star Henk Lategan tumbled out of the Dakar after two stellar performances in a row, Bahrain Raid Extreme is still banking on Nani Roma (fifth at 1 h 37) to catch up with the leading trio, but Sébastien Loeb is out of the running after making several blunders and breaking a wishbone, which meant an unscheduled night in the desert for the French driver and sent him plummeting to 45th place overall, 11 h 34 behind his old stablemate at Peugeot. Following the withdrawal of Siarhei Viazovich, who finished third last year, Karginov may well end up wondering who needs enemies with friends like his, as Andrey Karginov tries to stage an epic comeback, Ayrat Mardeev seeks to follow up on his first stage win since 2018 on the road to Ha’il, and Anton Shibalov attempts to build on his four podium finishes in six stages and second place overall

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The #31 Team Parker Bentley Continental GT3 Pro-Am entry of Euan McKay impressed in third place overall and top in class, ahead of the #8 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 of Nicola Cadei, and #46 VR46 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 of Luca Marini, which was making steady progress. On his opening quick lap, Barnicoat set a best of 1m59.107s, four-tenths of a second quicker than the impressive lap set by David Fuminelli in the #27 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 AM car, and seven-tenths of a second quicker than Pereira who was experiencing his first race in McLaren machinery, and on new tyres for the first time. Fuminelli’s outstanding drive ensured the #27 Ferrari would start from third place with the #67 Dinamic Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 alongside on the second row of the grid and topping the Pro-Am class, after Stefano Monaco set that car’s quickest lap of the session in the final stages. The earlier hard work done by Jean Luc D’Auria in the second session, backed up by team-mate Benedetto Strignano in the third part, ensured that the #90 Mercedes would start on pole in the GT4 class ahead of the #77 Optimum McLaren.