Sunday, January 9, 2022 AD, competitions for the seventh stage of the Saudi Dakar Rally 2022 will resume, after the participants have a rest day after the first week. .

At the end of the sixth stage, the features of the competition began to become clearer, as Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah, the driver of the Toyota team, topped the car category, 48 minutes and 54 seconds behind the Saudi Yazeed Al-Rajhi, the driver of "Over Drive", who ranked second, while the French Sebastien Loeb, the team driver, took the lead. PRX" is in third place.

In the motorcycle category, Britain's Sam Sunderland, driver of the Gasgas team, holds the lead in this category, with a difference of two minutes and 39 seconds from Austrian Matthias Walkner, who is second in the standings, while Australian Daniel Sanders, driver of Gasgas, is third.

While the “KAMAZ” team continues to dominate the truck category for the past six stages, with three of its drivers taking the first places, Dmitry Stonikov is in first place, 10 minutes 29 seconds ahead of his colleague Eduard Nikolaev, and Anton Shebalov in the third place.

In the light vehicles category T3, Chilean Francisco Lopez Contardo leads the category by 23 minutes and 9 seconds over Swede Sebastian Eriksson, who finished second, while Spain's Christian Gutierrez is third in the category.

In the category of light desert vehicles T4, Brazilian driver Rodrigo Lope de Oliveira continues to lead this category, with a difference of 6 minutes and 56 seconds over American Aston Jones, who ranked second, while Poland's Michel Guchtal is ranked third in this category.

In the quads category, French rider Alexandre Giroud of the Yamaha team leads the general classification, with a difference of 4 minutes and 52 seconds over American Pablo Kopetti, rider of the “Del Amo Yamaha” team, while Russian Alexander Maximov, the Cher rider, ranked third.