Dakar 2023, stage 8: Penalty deprives Carlos Sainz of victory

It’s on. It took two days to forget. In stage 6, he experienced an accident that caused him to stay for more than 7 hours in the desert and lost all his options. He arrived at the bivouac to regroup and left wanting revenge in the toughest race in the world with a stage win. But there, on stage 7, he threw away the victory by prioritizing his partnership with another Audi, Ekström’s, stopping next to the Swede to disassemble the parts of his car, giving them to his partner and stay again in the desert waiting for the truck.. Now he wants to forget everything with success and he did everything for it. In the 8th stage, Carlos Sainz went all out at the start and nothing and nothing seemed to stop him. The Madrid driver dominated all day, leading all the points, to take the victory as he crossed the finish line. But a few minutes later they imposed a 5-minute penalty that deprived him of celebrating his second victory in this Dakar. Carlos exceeded the speed limit at one point of the special. And it looks like he’s been doing it for a long time.

Too big a penalty for speeding, 5 minutesis imposed when the permitted speed exceeds 40 km/h more, according to the organization in the Riyadh press room, without specifying how fast it is. What they specified was that the speed limit at that point was 30 km/h. So, Carlos must have committed the offense by going 70 km/h more than that marked area.

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Loeb wins

The man from Madrid started late after the time he lost yesterday for giving his pieces to ekstrom in the middle of the dunes and wants to take advantage of it to attack from the start and push the gas as he wants, lose Sébastien Loeb for 1′ 29”, Nasser Al-Attiyah (3rd) for 3′ 40” and Lategan (4th) by 6′ 12”. However, the penalty changed everything: Loeb took the victory, the second for him in this Dakar 2023, over Al-Attiyah (2nd) by 2’11” and Carlos relegated to third position, 3’31”.

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Opened

Before his offense, Carlos had no rival behind his wheel Audi RS Q e-Tron and he seems to be able to overcome the nightmare that he has lived for the last two days in the best possible way. After sleeping in his sack under a tent (since yesterday’s episode was a kind of ‘marathon’), Carlos he woke up with the single goal of winning and seemed to achieve it with his co-driver Lucas Cruz in a complex, difficult special, with a lot of dirt, as well as sand and sand. But too fast, too fast. He was left without a winner for this.

With the penalty of 28 hours and 45 minutes which fell on non-completion of stage 6, The man from Madrid, who has reconnected with the race and has been in a world in general, must have the sole purpose of fighting to win as many stages as possible. He is left without success in this stage 8. Another failure that will only continue to increase his desire to succeed again. He will go for it in the remaining 8 episodes. Previously, this Monday was a rest day in Riyadh. It’s time to digest what happened, recover from the pain caused by the many jumps on the difficult terrain that most drivers have suffered and recharge the batteries to get more special stage victories in the unexplored land of the south -east of the country.

Armand Monleonleading to przygonskiwas Top-5 on stage, while Laia Sanz (Astara Team) achieved a good 23rd place, ahead of a Carlos Checa who remains the best Spanish rider overall. Czech He was 25th and running 22nd overall, just over 10 minutes out of the Top-20. Isidre Esteve he is 40th and occupies an excellent 25th place overall. The only Spaniard in the Top-10 is Daniel Oliverasco-pilot of Yacopini in Overdrive.

Classification stage 8, cars:

Temporarily

1. (FRA) SEBASTIEN LOEB
(BEL) FABIAN LURQUIN
BAHRAIN RAID EXTREME

2. (QAT) NASSER AL-ATTIYAH
(FRA) MATHIEU BAUMEL
TOYOTA GAZOO RACE
+ 00H 02′ 11”

3. (ENG) CARLOS SAINZ
(ENG) LUCAS CRUZ
TEAM AUDI SPORTS
+00H 03’31”

4. (ZAF) HENK LATEGAN
(ZAF) BRETT CUMMINGS
TOYOTA GAZOO RACE
+00H 04’53”

5. (POL) JAKUB PRZYGONSKI
(ENG) ARMAND MONLEON
X-RAID MINI JCW TEAM
+00H 10′ 19”

6. (FRA) GUERLIN CHICHERIT
(FRA) ALEX WINOCQ
GCK MOTORSPORT
+00H 10’21”

7. (BRA) LUCAS MORAES
(DEU) TIMO GOTTSCHALK
OVERDRIVE RACING
+00H 11’09”

8. (FRA) ROMAIN DUMAS
(FRA) MAX DELFINO
REBELLION RACING
+00H 16’52”

9. (SAU) YAZEED AL RAJHI
(DEU) DIRK VON ZITZEWITZ
OVERDRIVE RACING
+00H 17’05”

10. (LTU) VAIDOTAS ZALA
(PRT) PAULO FIUZA
TELTONIKA RACING
+00H 18′ 15”

23. (ENG) LAIA SANZ
(ITA) MAURIZIO GERINI
ASTARA TEAM
+00H 33′ 35”
The
25. (ENG) CARLOS CZECH
(ENG) MARC SOLA TERRADELLAS
ASTARA TEAM
+00H 34′ 48”
The
40. (ENG) ISIDRE ESTEVE PUJOL
(ENG) JOSÉ MARIA VILLALOBOS VALCARCEL
REPSOL TOYOTA RALLY TEAM
+00H 51′ 39”

General classification of cars

Temporarily after episode 8

1. (QAT) NASSER AL-ATTIYAH
(FRA) MATHIEU BAUMEL
TOYOTA GAZOO RACING 31H 02′ 58”

2. (ZAF) HENK LATEGAN
(ZAF) BRETT CUMMINGS
TOYOTA GAZOO RACE
+ 01H 03′ 46”

3. (BRA) LUCAS MORAES
(DEU) TIMO GOTTSCHALK
OVERDRIVE RACING
+ 01H 20′ 22”

4. (FRA) SEBASTIEN LOEB
(BEL) FABIAN LURQUIN
BAHRAIN RAID XTREME 32H 55′ 04”
+ 01H 52′ 06”

5. (ZAF) GINIEL DE VILLIERS
(ZAF) DENNIS MURPHY
TOYOTA GAZOO RACE
+ 02H 04′ 20”

6. (FRA) ROMAIN DUMAS
(FRA) MAX DELFINO
REBELLION RACING
+ 02H 27′ 11”

7. (CZE) MARTIN PROKOP
(CZE) VIKTOR CHYTKA
ORLEN BENZINA TEAM
+ 02H 37’00”

8. (ZAF) BRIAN BARAGWANATH
(ZAF) LEONARD CREMER
CENTURY RACING FACTORY TEAM
+ 02H 42′ 06”

9. (CHN) WEI HAN
(CHN) MA LI
HANWEI MOTORSPORT TEAM
+ 03H 15′ 03”

10. (ARG) JUAN CRUZ YACOPINI
(ENG) DANIEL OLIVERAS CARRERAS
OVERDRIVE RACING
+ 03H 40′ 22”

The22. (ENG) CARLOS CHECA
(ENG) MARC SOLA TERRADELLAS
ASTARA TEAM
+ 05H 40′ 04”
The
25. (ENG) ISIDRE ESTEVE PUJOL
(ENG) JOSÉ MARIA VILLALOBOS VALCARCEL
REPSOL TOYOTA RALLY TEAM
+ 06H 02′ 18”
The
37. (ENG) LAIA SANZ
(ITA) MAURIZIO GERINI
ASTARA TEAM
+ 16H 19′ 31”
The
39. (ENG) CARLOS SAINZ
(ENG) LUCAS CRUZ
TEAM AUDI SPORTS
+ 29H 16′ 59”The