The stage shaped the second a part of the marathon stage wherein crews needed to handle outdoors technical help and proved to be probably the most demanding exams of the Dakar up to now.
The combo of sinuous and rocky sections at first and within the remaining 50km meant that navigation was of paramount significance, whereas the chance of punctures remained a continuing menace.
This was significantly felt by 2009 Dakar winner Giniel de Villiers, who ran out of spare tires after puncturing twice and was compelled to attend on his Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mates.
Al-Attiyah, who wants simply two extra stage wins to match the general document shared by Stéphane Peterhansel and Ari Vatanen, is now 14m06s behind Ekström within the total standings after his penalty
Lucas Moraes moved previous Mitch Guthrie to lie fifth earlier than the remaining day, with just below a minute splitting the pair; three minutes additional again is Mathieu Serradori in the very best of the Century Racing CR7s.
General Classification (after stage 5)
1 Henk Lategan/Brett Cummings (Toyota Gazoo Racing) 28h10m11s
2 Yazeed Al Rajhi/Timo Gottschalk (Overdrive Racing Toyota) +10m17s
3 Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist (M-Sport Ford) +20m54s
4 Nasser Al-Attiyah/Edouard Boulanger (Dacia Sandriders) +35m00s
5 Lucas Moraes/Armand Monleon (Toyota Gazoo Racing) +41m55s
6 Mitch Guthrie Jr/Kellon Walch (M-Sport Ford) +42m44s
7 Mathieu Serradori/Loïc Minaudier (Century Racing CR7) +45m59s
8 Juan Cruz Yacopini/Dani Oliveras Carreras (Overdrive Racing Toyota) +1h03m17s
9 Seth Quintero/Denniz Zenz (Toyota Gazoo Racing) +1h30m10s
10 Guerlain Chicherit/Alex Winoq (X-raid Mini JCW) +1h38m45s
