Joan Barreda was candid when asked by the Spanish press about the point where Stéphane Peterhansel and Carlos Sainz crashed on stage 6 of the Dakar 2023. The Torreblanca rider passed by then (since motorcycles left before cars) and he said he got a big scare when he reached a kind of cut dune that “should have been marked in the ‘roadbook’ as danger 3”. The driver from Castellón assured that after passing that point, he discussed it with the other drivers, that this place will create problems for the fastest cars because of how fast they are before finding the jump that.
“That was after the neutralization. It was a cut dune…, which when we saw we stopped afterwards and said: ‘My goodness there when the cars arrive’. Because it’s the typical one where you go flat, 160 km/h, a valley, down, and suddenly you turn the CAP (heading), and with the motorcycle will put the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth… .And suddenly, ‘Poom! ‘” Joan said.
“In the roadbook it’s not marked. I was scared. When your eyes get there… ‘slow down! We’ve discussed it with the drivers. The fastest car has no choice. When you have a car go at the speed of . you go and it’s not in the ‘roadbook’… you’re like this, you see a flat desert on all sides… that’s a trap,” he added.
“Of course it should be marked,” he exclaimed. “And we were also coming from a change of direction. many times they can set you a course of 10 km and they tell you that there are different holes and you are looking for your life. But there was just turned 500 meters before, this is a change of direction and there it must have a risk, as in many other areas. That is a risk 3”, he concluded in this matter.
Source: La Verdad
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