Laia Sanz (Astara) broke the top 20 car barrier for the first time in the eighteenth finish of the ninth Dakar special, 22:31 behind French Sébastien Loeb (Prodrive), stage winner.
“I hope every day is like this. Now we have run and we had options to finish later, even, but small things made us lose a few minutes which at the end of the day translated into three or four that position. ,” he said.
He recounted that he found “a complicated navigation point” where he hesitated, but which his co-pilot solved “perfectly”.
Laia Sanz’s round day had more disappointments: “Again we missed the auto-inflation system to control the pressures in the sand areas and on the track, which inevitably also conditions the speed at which you can go.”
“We also had a problem with the left rear shock absorbers, which we later found to be broken. And a hundred kilometers from the finish line, a stone thrown from another car broke the window with the bad luck of hitting my area vision,” he explained in the statement.
The Catalan made a “very positive” assessment on Tuesday, “very happy” and expressed his desire to “continue to develop in the next stages.”
Source: La Verdad
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