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Salta - Sebastien Loeb leads the Dakar Rally at the midway point by more than two minutes from French countryman Stephane Peterhansel.
Carlos Sainz won the seventh stage on Saturday, 38 seconds ahead of Loeb.
Loeb was 2 minutes, 22 seconds ahead of Peterhansel, and 4:50 in front of Sainz.
In the motorcycle division, Paulo Goncalves of Portugal was the leader, 3:12 ahead of Toby Price of Australia, and 9:24 clear of Stefan Svitko of Slovakia.
Antoine Meo of France won the stage.
The Dakar Rally, running in Argentina and Bolivia, resumes on Monday and ends next Saturday in Rosario, Argentina.
2016 Dakar Rally Overall Standings
Cars
1. Sébastien
Loeb (FRA) 21:46:28
2. Stéphane
Peterhansel (FRA) +00:02:22
3. Carlos
Sainz (ESP) +00:04:50
4. Nasser
Al-Attiyah (QAT) +00:17:36
5. Mikko Hirvonen (FIN) +00:32:53
6. Giniel de
Villiers (ZAF) +00:33:41
Bike
1. Paulo Gonçalves (POR) 22:52:30
2. Toby
Price (AUS) 00:03:12
3. Stefan Svitko (SVK) +00:09:24
4. Pablo Quintanilla (CHL) +00:18:06
5. Kevin Benavides (ARG) +00:21:01
6. Antoine
Méo (FRA) +00:21:06
Trucks
1. Pieter Versluis (NLD) 21:01:56
2. Gerard de Rooy (NLD) +00:05:31
3. Ayrat
Mardeev (RUS) +00:10:48
4. Eduard
Nikolaev (RUS) +00:10:54
5. Hans Stacey (NLD) +00:11:28
Quads
1. Alejandro Patronelli (ARG) 27:02:31
2. Marcos
Patronelli (ARG) +00:03:36
3. Sergei Kariakin (RUS) +00:07:51
4. Jeremias Gonzalez (ARG) +00:26:03
5. Alexis Hernandez (PER) +00:27:09
