The fall and fear for Edgar Canet and Tosha approached the leader Sanders

The Valencian Tosha Schareina He continues to fight to win his first Dakar on a motorcycle and end the Spanish drought on two wheels in the most difficult race in the world since Marc Coma won the last of his 5 ‘Touaregs‘ in 2015.

The Honda rider faces a very solid overall leader who rarely fails and who manages his advantage in the overall standings like a charm. Despite this, Tosha He kept trying and on stage 6 of the Dakar 2025 this Saturday he put even more pressure on the Australian, taking 3 minutes and 16 seconds from the pilot. KTM.

After about 100 kilometers, Tosha increased her lead by another minute and finally reached the finish line with Sanders at 3’16”, something that left Schareina at 11’46” with 6 stages to go. The next three could be important before reaching the last three days of sand, where it is more difficult to make a difference, although David Castera assured that the penultimate stage could be important because of its complexity.

The days pass and the chances are few and far between, but Tosha is still too far from Daniel to believe that it is possible, especially when there are still many kilometers ahead and difficult days to face. On the other hand, in the constant give and take that is the battle of the motorcycles, Sanders will try to attack from a position further away from Tosha to make up for the time lost in stage 7 this Sunday.

The winner of stage 6 of Dakar 2025 is the current Dakar champion, Ricky Brabecyou will need to open the track on loop Al Duwadimi this Sunday. He prevailed over his teammate Honda Adrien Van Beverenalong with the Chilean José Ignacio Cornejo of Bayani at the age of 51 and Tosha in fourth place at 2’27”.

Santolinowho came to lead the stage and fight for the victory in most of the special, in the end was unable to achieve his second victory in this edition and finished 6th, behind Luciano Benavides, 3’47” behind the best.

Edgar Canet, fall and be afraid

At kilometer 45 of the 605 timed special, Edgar Canetbrilliant solo debutante 19 yearssuffered his first hard fall at the Dakar 2025. The The Garriga He stopped about 5 minutes after that fall to check the condition of one hand. The Catalan was in pain and thought he might have a fracture. Also, his back is also bothering him. But apparently, according to the pilot at the end of the special, it was nothing more than a scare, although KTM needs to check the condition of that hand.

With the whole special ahead of him, with 560 hours of kilometers still to cover and around 200 contacts, the Catalan got back on his motorcycle to continue.

In the first 200 km, the fall lost time. When he reached the intermediate link, as MD found out, Edgar seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as he had a better sensation with his hand and pulled. It wasn’t long before he began to return to the second part of the special, joining Santolino and Quintanilla on the sands, at a great speed. From kilometers 233 to 531 he shaved 2 minutes off the disadvantage he had accumulated after falling with his rival. for the victory of the Dakar in the silver class, Rally2, Tobias Ebster.

The Austrian started the day 16 minutes behind Edgar in the general classification of Rally2 and at kilometer 577 of the special, Edgar was almost 5 minutes behind his opponent, thus still maintaining a great advantage in his main opponent

In the end, he finished 12’58” behind the day’s best and gave up less than 5 minutes to Ebster. Thus, Edgar continues to lead Rally2 by 11’56” over the Austrian in Rally2.

Ross Branch and Cox left

The current world champion FIM W2RC raids, Ross Branch (Hero)became the star of the day’s bad news when he fell at kilometer 48 and had to abandon the trial due to a heavy blow, requiring a helicopter evacuation.

He also left Bradley Coxwho was 11th overall before the stage started. The South African suffered a fall 100 meters after the start. He continued for 48 kilometers, but he decided to give up.