Motorsport.com reports MINI X-raid Team's French pairing Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret took to third position during day 3 and continues to hold the overall Dakar 2013 Car category lead. The team of Nani Roma and Michel Périn finished the day fifth overall but by the end of Stage 4 dropped to seventh. Leonid Novitskiy and Konstantin Zhiltsov finished sixth on Stage 3 but after Stage 4, they hold fourth position overall. Boris Garafulic and Gilles Picard took their MINI ALL4 Racing to 20th position, but Stephan Schott / Holm Schmitt encountered problems in the opening stages of the special stage finishing twentieth. The team redeemed itself and after Stage 4 is in fifteenth place overall. Here, courtesy of
MINIMotorsport.com, are the overall standings after Stage 4:
OVERALL STANDINGS (AFTER STAGE 4).
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#
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Driver/Co-Driver
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Manufacturer
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Time
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| 1. | #302 | PETERHANSEL/COTTRET | MINI | 05:34:26 |
| 2. | #300 | AL-ATTIYAH/CRUZ | BUGGY | 05:40:59 |
| 3. | #306 | ALVAREZ/GRAUE | TOYOTA | 05:52:37 |
| 4. | #307 | NOVITSKIY/ZHILTSOV | MINI | 05:55:36 |
| 5. | #303 | SAINZ/GOTTSCHALK | BUGGY | 05:55:42 |
| 6. | #301 | DE VILLIERS/VON ZITZEWITZ | TOYOTA | 06:04:48 |
| 7. | #305 | ROMA/PÉRIN | MINI | 06:07:22 |
| 8. | #313 | TERRANOVA/FIUZA | BMW | 06:09:39 |
| 9. | #321 | ERRANDONEA/DEBRON | GREAT WALL | 06:12:58 |
| 10. | #316 | CHABOT/PILLOT | SMG | 06:14:06 |
| 11. | #309 | CHICHERIT/GARCIN | SMG | 06:17:39 |
| 12. | #348 | GADASIN/KUZMICH | G-FORCE PROTO | 06:18:15 |
| 13. | #315 | GORDON/WALCH | HUMMER | 06:21:13 |
| 14. | #325 | WEVERS/LURQUIN | FORD | 06:28:54 |
| 15. | #331 | GARAFULIC/PICARD | MINI | 06:32:40 |
