Daniel Sanders enters Dakar Rally's rest day still as leader of the pack — but Australia's defending motorcycle champion was mad with himself that his advantage wasn't far more substantial after an "emotional rollercoaster" of a day in the Saudi dunes.
The Red Bull KTM rider put on a virtuoso show in the race's first big sandy stage as he blitzed his main rivals in Friday's 326km run between Hail and the capital Riyadh.
But the usually cheery 'Chucky' ended up cutting a somewhat irritated figure as he recognised at the finish of stage six that he was going to be hit with a six-minute penalty for exceeding a designated speed limit.
