Stage Six on Dakar 2012 was cancelled due to snow and ice, so we move directly to catch the action from Stage Seven. The desert stage favoured the Hummers of Robby Gordon and Nasser Al-Attiyah who dominated the day and moved up the overall order as a result.

Current standings from Autosport.com –

Pos  Driver                Car           Time/Gap

1.  Stephane Peterhansel  Mini         15h32m53s

2.  Krzysztof Holowczyc   Mini          + 11m22s

3.  Robby Gordon          Hummer        + 13m09s

4.  Nani Roma             Mini          + 18m05s

5.  Giniel de Villiers    Toyota        + 34m07s

6.  Nasser Al-Attiyah     Hummer        + 42m54s

7.  Leonid Novitskiy      Mini          + 54m26s

8.  Carlos Sousa          Great Wall  + 1h12m50s

9.  Lucio Alvarez         Toyota      + 1h41m38s

10.  Erik van Loon         Mitsubishi  + 1h48m39s