Dakar Rally was intense, delivering joy and heartache in spades across the field. We look at how the South Africans fared in the 47th edition of the world’s toughest race.

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Sweden’s Mattias Ekstrom lost a couple of minutes to be 22 minutes back in third ... De Mévius was an out-of-the-blue second in the Dakar a year ago but last Sunday he lost 2 1/2 hours to ...