The Spanish pilot Carlos Sainz He assured this Friday at the end of the prologue of Dakar 2024 that “the plan is the fifteenth or so”, but Lucas CruzHe, his co-pilot, and he got lost at one point, stopping later to make sure they weren’t among the first and They made a mistake “in a calculation”who finished their thirty-fourth on the day of the preface of the ‘rally’.
““We didn’t do a good job.”said the man from Madrid speaking to reporters at the end of the first day of the Dakar, a 27-kilometer timed prologue in which he lost two minutes and eighteen seconds compared to his teammate Mattias Ekström, who won the race.
“The plan was to end on the 15th or so, and the truth is that it didn’t go well. We got lost somewhere and stopped before arriving. We made a mistake in our calculation because we thought we lost less time than we actually lost and when we added the downtime it was too much,” insisted Sainz.
So, this Saturday they have to start in the thirty-fourth position, which “means from minute to minute” that the cars are in front and behind, so they have to “persevere in the first kilometer” to catch up, although wait ” to open a hole and no dust”.
“I hope there is not too much dust because otherwise we will suffer a lot,” commented the rider in Madrid, winner of three Dakars, explaining that “There are many races left and you have to be patient“, because if they lose “eight or ten minutes -this Saturday- nothing will happen”, because “there is time to make it up.”
Source: La Verdad
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