Intsinzi ya Mini shoferi idasanzwe yahuje La Rioja na San Juan ituma ibintu byose bihinduka murutonde rusange.
Mubyiciro byoroheje kuruta ejo, Peugeot yishyize kare cyane imbere yisiganwa, abinyujije kuri bombi Stéphane Peterhansel na Sébastien Loeb, bari abashoferi bihuta cyane kumunsi. Ariko unyuze muri Way Point 5, Nasser Al-Attiyah yageze imbere ntiyongera gutangira, afata intsinzi ye ya 2 muriyi nyandiko ya Dakar.Nubwo gusenyuka 2 km gusa uhereye kurangiza, Sébastien Loeb yarangije kumwanya wa 2 nyuma yiminota 6 inyuma ya Al-Attiyah, naho Mikko Hirvonen arenga Peterhansel atwara umwanya wa 3 kuri stage.
REBA NAWE: icyubahiro 10 cyahise muburyo bwa 21
Umufaransa Stéphane Peterhansel yageze ku nshuro ya 4 nziza mu bidasanzwe, bityo akomeza kuyobora ku rutonde rusange hamwe n'amajwi amwemerera kuyobora ibyiciro bibiri bishize atiriwe agira ibyago byinshi.
Kuri moto, umunya Portigale Paulo Gonçalves yagize undi munsi "oya", nyuma yo kugwa bituma atagira ubwenge bituma ajyanwa mu bitaro byegereye. Ikigaragara ni uko byose byari biteye ubwoba, ariko umumotari wa Honda ntabwo ari muri iyi verisiyo ya Dakar.