Dakar Rally 2022: Henk Lategan Wins Stage 5, Giniel De Villiers Also Makes South Africa Proud

• Henk Lategan secured his first stage win at the Dakar Rally when he beat Sebastien Loeb to victory in Stage 5
• Henk Lategan and Giniel de Villiers continues to fly the South Africa flag high at the world's toughest rally race
• De Villiers has finished in the top 10 in stage 4 and stage 5 of the Dakar Rally taking place in Saudi Arabia

South Africa's Henk Lategan scored his first stage win in the Dakar Rally as he claimed victory in Stage 5 of the endurance race in Saudi Arabia.

Lategan finished ahead of rally legend Sebastien Loeb in the car section of the toughest rally in the world.

The South African confirmed Henk Lategan finished ahead of Loeb by one minute and 58 seconds. Loeb remains second in the overall rankings though behind leader Nasser Al-Attiyah.

Al-Attiah who hails from Qatar has a half an hour lead after five stages. He is also a three-time winner of the Dakar.

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South Africa's Giniel de Villiers and Christiaan Visser also impressed during stage five as they both finished in the top ten of the car category. De Villiers also impressed in stage four of the race as he finished sixth, Wheels24 reported.

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Despite de Villier's consistent and impressive form at the Dakar Rally, he is not the highest placed South Africa in the car category in the overall rankings. That honour goes to Christian Visser who finds himself in 13th place thus far.

Shameer Variawa in 19th and Brian Baragwanath in 20th place are the next highest placed South Africans.

Giniel de Villiers is currently 35th in the overall rankings.

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Hamilton has avoided media attention and remained silent on social media since the controversial Abu Dhabi F1 race in which Max Verstappen was crowned the new F1 World Champion.

Hamilton's last public appearance was in the middle of December 2021 when he was officially knighted at Windsor Castle, Formula1 confirmed. He didn't make an appearance though at the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) end-of-season awards a few days later.