Carlos Sainz’s brutal ascent of a gravity-defying dune

The new edition of the Dakar in Saudi Arabia holds more surprises than expected a priori. In addition to yesterday’s heavy rains, which caused all kinds of extreme situations, today there was a series of impressive sand dunes where the pilots had to climb.

Among them is the Spanish pilot Carlos Sainzat his command Audi RS Q e-tron, who, as can be seen in this video shared by the Dakar organization, had to face climbing a dune diagonally because the difference in level was so high that there was no other way to overcome it. A fascinating document that is a good example of the difficulty of this edition of the Dakar.

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Property Sainz He spoke about it at the end of the stage after watching the video: “I really remember because we couldn’t climb and I tried again, I had to turn and I surfed the dune, until a moment when I managed to climb. There were very steep slope and the truth is that it is typical of this area of ​​Ha’il, there are many mountains to climb. I don’t know the degree of inclination, but many. In the video it seems less outstanding than in reality.