Toyota's defending champion Nasser Al-Attiyah retained a comfortable lead of more than an hour after the Dakar Rally's seventh stage in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on another tough day for rivals Audi.
The Qatari, who played it safe in the first part of a marathon stage, had earlier apologised for an outburst on social media during the week about a rule change he feared would favour Audi.
Audi suffered a further setback when remaining contender Mattias Ekstroem, winner of last weekend's prologue, stopped with mechanical problems and Sainz halted alongside to provide assistance. Before the fifth stage he had accused organisers of "killing the race early" with the decision to allow more power to cars using renewable energy.
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