Tosha Schareina continues to hold his ground in the battle for victory in the 2025 Dakar. On Thursday, the Monster Energy Honda rider clocked the sixth-fastest time in stage 5, finishing 4m40s behind the winner, Luciano Benavides (Red Bull KTM).
As a result, the Spaniard heads into the rest day in second place overall, 7m02s behind the leader, Daniel Sanders (Red Bull KTM). In a press release, Schareina shared:
– Today was the second part of the marathon stage, it was pretty good. At the beginning I made a navigation mistake and after that [José Ignacio] Nacho Cornejo and Adrien [van Beveren] caught me. We were riding together again like in previous days and after that we caught Daniel Sanders.
Pleased with his performance in the stage, the Dakar’s second-place contender is ready to enjoy the rest day: ‘There was 400km of tricky navigation, again some rocky parts and 100km of super sandy sections, but it was pretty good. I didn’t lose too much time with the other riders, so now it’s time to stop and enjoy the rest day before we’re ready to battle again’.
