DAKAR RALLY: Reigning champion Stephane Peterhansel stretched his overall lead in the race for cars to 40 minutes four seconds yesterday.

Organisers scrubbed the stage for bike riders after Australian Andy Caldecott was killed in a crash on Monday. Competitors held a minute's silence after the morning briefing in Kiffa, Mauritania, in memory of the 41-year-old KTM rider. The 333km 10th stage to Kayes in Mali went ahead as normal for the car drivers.

Spaniard Carlos Sainz clocked the fastest time of the day. The Volkswagen driver clinched his fourth stage win of the race when he beat compatriot Nani Roma (Mitsubishi) by four minutes eight seconds.

Frenchman Peterhansel, driving a Mitsubishi, was in third place, four minutes 58 seconds adrift.