route, live, TV channel, ranking, etc. Everything about the 2nd stage 48 hours flat

This 2nd stage of the Dakar 2025 is the main event of the race. This is a 48-hour stage of more than 1000 km spread over two days. Placed at the very start of the race, it could well be decisive for the final victory.

A bit like a mountain event in the Tour de France, the 48-hour event of this Dakar 2025 is the star of this edition. The crews will have to cover 1048 km in two days, including 967 km of special. This 2nd stage takes place in the north of the town of Bisha. On Sunday, at 5 p.m., all participants will be forced to stop and join one of the six camps set up by the organization. Equipped with a ration, participants do not benefit from the help of their technical team to repair possible damage. It will therefore be necessary to take care of the mechanics to leave at dawn Monday morning and reach the finish. And it is during this stage that the cars and motorcycles will be separated because the participants will not take the same route.

Video preview of the 2nd stage of the Dakar 2025

The 2nd stage of the Dakar on television

As since the prologue on Friday, it is on the L’Équipe channel that you will be able to find the information from this 2nd stage with the analyzes and reactions of the drivers at the finish. It will be from 11:50 a.m. via the player below.

The general classification after the first stage

1. Quintero/Zenz (Toyota) : 4h35m08s
2. Chicherit/Winocq (Mini) : +0:55s
3. Variawa/Cazalet (Toyota) : +1:48s
4. Prokop/Chytka (Orlen Jipocar): +1:49s
5. Gutierrez/Moreno (Dacia) : +2:13s
6. Ferreira/Palmeiro (Mini): +2:38s
7. Moraes/Monleon (Toyota) : +3:18s
8. Sainz/Cruz (Ford) : +3:27s
9. De Mevius/Panzeri (Overdrive) : +5:37s
10. Gastaldi/Metge (Century) : +5:43s
11. Guthrie/Walch (Ford) : +5:57s
12. Price/Sunderland (Overdrive) : +5:58s
13. Schröder/Köhne (PS Laser): +6:47s
14. Botterill/Murphy (Toyota) : +7:16s
15. Ekström/Bergkvist (Ford) : +8:02s
16. Baragwanath/Cremer (Century) : +8:07s
17. Roma/Naro (Ford) : +9:29s
18. De Villiers/Von Zitzewitz (Toyota) : +10:26s
19. Al-Attiyah/Boulanger (Dacia)  : +13:13s
20. Al-Rajhi/Gottschalk (Overdrive) : +13:13s
21. Vitse/Delfino (MD) : +13:42s
22. Lategan/Cummings (Toyota) : +14:12s
23. Loeb/Lurquin (Dacia) : +14:16s

The classification of the stage

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The reaction of the drivers at the finish

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Photo credit: ASO/F.Le Floc’h/DPPI.