Al-Attiyah maintains his complaint and Sainz prefers not to play his game

He warned on Wednesday that yesterday was a good day to increase his margin in the general and he did. Al-Attiyah won the stage with a 1’57” advantage Carlos Sainzwho finished in second position and put more ground between him and Peterhansel and Al-Rajhi.

When he got out of the car as a winner on the stage, he saw the Spanish press in the tent of Toyota in Ha’il and the first thing he said was ‘Hellooo!’. There are also journalists from other countries, but yesterday I was interested in sending a message to the newspapers that follow Carlos’ steps. Then, as usual, he spoke charmingly to make it clear that he was not worried about the possibility of a penalty. He doesn’t think that will happen.

“Worried? Nothing, I just post what’s available. It comes from the organization, and we publish it, it’s normal, everyone publishes,” he said. “We don’t have a problem, just a publication. It’s not my business, my business is to defend my title and win the race.”added Nasser who assured that the FIA’s decision was unfair and despite this, his hands define the race: “Audi and BRX are more powerful cars than us, but I made the difference, the driver, it seems unfair. Our car is still third, behind Audi and BRX.”

“No comments”, Sainz said when asked about his rival’s words, wondering how things would have been different if the Audi had not weighed 100 kilograms more than the Toyota. Carlos focused on himself. Yesterday he lost some time and was at 34′ 52”. There are still 9 days and anything can happen. Sainz wanted to continue the attack today after a difficult day where he ended up with neck pain after two landings in the dunes

Sainz’s remarks:

stage assessment

Just like yesterday, really, a lot of sand, sand and camel grass. Faster zones, crossing zones with some very small dunes, lunettes, then camel grass, a very broken terrain, very broken, and very physical. This was a special one where I had two pretty serious neck impacts.

The neck

I’m fine, but it hurts. That’s where we look at the car to see if we can improve the suspension, fine-tuning things. It is in a hole, a dune, with a fall.

The terrain of stage 5, with hard sand from the rain

That happened, the dunes were very bad, it was very bad, and it was a difficult section

Did you notice the 11 more horsepower?

nerd It’s so subtle that I didn’t notice it.

said Nasser

‘Don’t comment’.

trump choice

We went as fast as we could, both Stéphane (Peterhansel) and I, and when it’s gone, it’s gone, it is what it is. A special with a lot of bumps, with a heavy car, and you notice every bump, we saw the difference in what it means to remove a hundred kilos, and if we remove it in these specials, it would be very good for us, but it is what it is.

Thinking about removing a hundred kilograms today from this car is like science fiction, first of all because of the battery, which is very complicated.

Next year, if you think the FIA ​​will reduce Audi’s weight in the regulations

I do not know. What I think, the FIA ​​saw that we accelerated more, that’s why they did it yesterday, everything was discussed, agreed, but I think they only saw 85%.