Joan Barreda Moves To Top Of Dakar Rankings, Toby Price Rockets to 5th After Day 2

Debutante's Australian Toby Price and Austria's Matthias Walkner made a big impression by taking 5th and 6th place respectively at the finishing line. The sensation 5th place stage result moves Price up to fifth place in the overall standings, 11 minutes and 32 seconds behind Berreda.

"Today was a good day for me! We got through first 300km really well at a fast pace, the navigation wasn't to hard but you still had to really stay on top of your road book." Price explained. "Beyond the 300km point I made a small mistake trying to pass another rider when I thought I might had missed a waypoint and started to second guess myself.

"I then back tracked to find the waypoint and found myself back where I turned around, to be honest it was all over the shop! It just goes to show how much experience you need to master this crazy race.

"Today was incredibly hot in the sand dunes and we all got cooked, other than that it was all good and extremely happy to be sitting in 5th position after stage 2.

The Australian father and son pairing of Simon Pavey, and Llewellyn Sullivan-Pavey are currently ranked 80th and 81st overall after finishing stage two in those exact positions. The duo are separated by just one minute, some three hours and 15 minutes behind the race leader.

At the time of posting this report Australia's fourth rider in Clayton Jacobsen has only registered a time at way point 10 of 13, however a post on his facebook page has confirmed that he was able to finish the day's stage. As soon as timing is updated we will update his results.