HAIL, Saudi Arabia — Mitch Guthrie became the first driver to win a second stage in the Dakar Rally after Nani Roma was penalized for speeding in the Saudi desert on Thursday.Guthrie won his first major stage on Tuesday and the American prevailed again on the 371-kilometer second half of the marathon stage from AlUla east to Hail.Roma thought he’d won his 14th career car stage — one more than he achieved on a motorbike — after four hours by four seconds but a 70-second penalty meant he lost the stage by 66 seconds. Martin Prokop’s third place gave Ford the podium sweep.Henk Lategan, nearly 13 minutes behind the winner, held on to the overall lead in his Toyota but Nasser Al-Attiyah’s second-placed Dacia and Mattias Ekström’s third-placed Ford closed to less than six minutes behind.But for a brief time near the end, Lategan opened the way for almost the entire day.“It was really, really, really difficult, one of the most difficult stages I’ve had to open,” he said. “There were no bike tracks and a lot of the tracks were really, really small tracks. The rain washed a lot of them …
