2025 FIM World Rally-Raid Championship round four, The BP Ultimate Rally Raid Portugal stage four results see Red Bull KTM’s Daniel Sanders back on top after a day win and blunder from Monster Energy Honda’s Tosha Schareina, giving the Australian Dakar winner sight of the W2RC world title.

Stage 4 of the BP Ultimate Rally Raid Portugal took the field back to Portugal, linking Badajoz to Lisbon through a 528 km course featuring 274 km against the clock.

A late surprise may have already tipped the scales in the fight between Daniel Sanders (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) and Tosha Schareina (Monster Energy Honda HRC), who held the RallyGP lead for just one day, on home soil yesterday, but handed it back on a platter today.

RALLYGP: Sanders eyes world prize

Tosha Schareina started the special with an overall lead of 1′42″. The Spaniard was leading the charge following his stage win yesterday and managed to limit the damage to a 50-second deficit to the Australian 248km into the 274km course.

All that changed when he took the wrong turn shortly after, a blunder that came with a hefty price tag of 4′54″ lost to Sanders.

3′12″ now separate Chucky and Schareina going into the final day which effectively means the man from down under is hours away from securing the RallyGP world championship. He just needs to finish on the podium of the race. And that is not to mention the fact he has won every round of the season to date.

The scrap for third place in the Rally Raid Portugal is worth keeping your eye on as well with Luciano Benavides and Ricky Brabec just 10 seconds apart this morning. The Argentinian was 5′11″ slower than his teammate Sanders today, but it was still marginally better than the American, who lost 5′52″ and now sits 51 seconds from Benavides in the standings.

RALLY2: a day to remember for Portugal

Portugal, which had never even won a Rally2 stage before, scored a one-two finish today! Honda's fresh recruit Martim Ventura showed the skills that made him national todo-o-terreno champion on the road to Lisbon.

Meanwhile, his countryman Bruno Santos (BS Frutas Patrícia Pilar) left nothing in the tank in his quest to make national history, but he lost by 11 seconds after coming up 59 seconds short yesterday. Portuguese competitors have now triumphed in all W2RC classes bar quads.

Argentina remains the only country to have won in every class. Third on the day at 1′16″, Edgar Canet still holds a margin of 4′52″ over Santos and 7′56″ over Michael Docherty (BAS World KTM). A victory tomorrow would catapult the Spaniard to the championship lead.

RALLY3: French domination

Edgar Canet let slip the opportunity to complete a whitewash in Rally2, but Thomas Zoldos has no intention of letting that happen to him in Rally3. The Frenchman scooped up yet another win today despite Salvador (+2′38″) and Gonzalo Amaral (+4′05″) throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him on their return home.

Zoldos sits atop a buffer of almost an hour and a half over his closest pursuer in the overall, the Italian Carlo Cabini (RS Moto).

287 km stand between the field and the finish line in the Portuguese capital tomorrow.

Rally Raid Portugal Stage 4 results:

Overall Rally GP classification after stage 4:

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