Today's Dakar Rally Daily covers the 2024 Dakar Rally Stage 7 and an incredibly tight overall race, down to ONE SECOND, between HRC Monster Energy Honda's Ricky Brabec and Hero Motorsports' Ross Branch. 

Brabec's Honda teammate Nacho Cornejo took the stage win  today, his third of the 2024 Dakar Rally,  Yesterday's show guests Kevin and Luciano Benevides took second and third, respectively on the day to make it a 1-2-3 for South America!

In today's show we go over Stage 7's results and dig into the incredibly tight overall race as we head into the second half of the race. We also check in with Johnny Campbell in the HRC Honda pits, Interview Ross Branch from the comfort of his rally motorhome and hear from last year's Malle Moto/Original by Motul class winner Charan Moore to see if that Malle Moto thing is really all it's cracked up to be. 

Thanks for listening and we do hope you enjoy the show from stage 7 of the 2024 Dakar Rally.

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Dakar Rally Daily is produced and edited by Jesse Ziegler, and hosted by Quinn Cody and Jesse Ziegler.