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Off-road motorcycle star Price, who won the race’s motorcycle class in both 2016 and 2019, though he'd picked up the 14th Dakar stage win of his career after a demanding 346km loop around the Saudi Arabian capital Riyad.
The Gold Coast local though he finished four minutes ahead of his competitors after taking the
lead at the penultimate checkpoint, but the win was denied by officials hours after the race after they issued Price with a six-minute penalty.
Officials ruled that the 34-year-old rider had exceeded the speed limit set for the race in certain public sections of the rally.
Red Bull Factory KTM rider Price, whose chances of a third overall victory evaporated after a bad start earlier in the two-week race, was thus relegated to fifth place overall on the stage, with victory awarded instead to Danilo Petrucci.
The Italian is the first MotoGP rider ever to win a stage at the Dakar.
Fellow Aussie Daniel Sanders finished 13th on the stage, falling off the pace only in the final section, to keep in the hunt for the overall title as he lay fourth.
The Victorian is just over eight minutes behind the British race leader and his GasGas teammate, Sam Sunderland.
In the cars section, South African Henk Lategan won despite his driver's door flapping open, as Sebastien Loeb trimmed Nasser Al Attiyah's overall lead to 35 minutes.
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"I was driving until the first control point with the door flapping open. Then I managed to solve that, I strapped myself in and couldn't open the door," Lategan said afterwards.
"Then we had a puncture, so I had to climb out of the navigator's door and change the puncture. So we've had just the craziest day. I can't actually believe that we have won the stage. It doesn't make sense."
