For anyone interested, live tracking is available from this link....

http://tracking.dakar.com/ASO/index_us.html

It shows the competitiors from every class as they hit each check point. The bikes have finished todays stage but all the cars and trucks are yet to cross the line.

Al Attiyah has won again in the BMW on today's shortened stage. At the time i looked, only 5 cars had finished.

On the bikes, American Jonah Street on a nonfactory KTM is now 40 mins behind Marc Coma's leading Repsol KTM.