Crossing the blame for Audi’s increased power

One of the news of the day at the Ha’il bivouac was the decision of the FIA ​​​​to agree with Audi and with the objective in stage 5 they announced that they would allow a power increase of 8kW (10.75 CV) for those RS Q e-tron E2 prototype “in accordance with article VI 13.3 of the sporting regulations for Rally Raids” and “after analyzing the data of the cars of the T1U and T1+ classes in the first three stages”.

“Well, I’m not happy at all, because they (FIA) can measure and see. And the Audi ran a lot… well, it turns out it didn’t run that much. Welcome be. They have all the data to measure what accelerates one car and another and I think that if they give us 8 kW, which is 11 horsepower, they will see that we are missing something”, explained Carlos Sainz when it came to bivouac, benefited. with the rest of Team Audi Sport completed by Stéphane Peterhansel and Mattias Ekstrom.

And through social networks the same ‘neighborhood’ began to get involved, the members of Audi Sport and Toyota Gazoo Racing fighting for the bronze Tuareg in cars.

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Matthieu Baumelthe co-driver of Nasser Al Attiyah and with whom he leads the classification by 18’18” on the other Toyota (of the Overdrive team) of Al Rajhi and 19’52” on the first of the Audis, Peterhansel’s, entered the rag of the news via his Twitter and Instagram accounts: “Amazing to give our main rival 11 more hp!!! Thanks for killing the race early @fia, @OfficialW2RC, @dakar.”

And then he was one of the three official Audi drivers, Matthias Ekstrom who replied to the French police in his post on Instagram: “I don’t expect you to be a politician and write things like this. Maybe we should all follow the agreements and measurement methods made by the teams at @ fia.official before the race and trust that before making a statement like that. Let’s run and let the FIA ​​do its job. May the best team win in the end.”