The new leader of Dakar in cars, Carlos Sainzassured this Sunday after finishing first in the general classification “You have to try to continue every day” and, “as ‘Cholo'” said Simeone, go “game by game.”
In statements to the Spanish media traveling to Dakar, Sainz explained that the next goal is to “try to finish tomorrow without problems” because “there will only be two hours to work on the car”, according to the organization set for Monday . .
Sainz, who finished eighth this Sunday, is the new Dakar 2024 leader with a provisional advantage of 1 minute and 51 seconds over the Saudi. Yazeed Al Rajhi and has 4 minutes and 17 seconds on Loeb, who is third, while he continues to be twelve minutes on the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah, the current Dakar champion and ended the day in fifth position.
So, the Madrid native emphasized that we should see if it is on stage this Monday “get out the back” they can do it “have a good period and make up some time”because on this second day they came second and, having passed the first, they had to open the track, which damaged their navigation
Difficult stage to navigate
“I didn’t expect the stage to be so difficult to navigate, so complex. We found a lot of intersections, a lot of speed changes… but the important thing is that we are leading. “If they had asked me at the start of the race if we would have been first, we would have signed it, which is positive and a good day for Audi, leading the race and the victory of Stéphane Peterhansel,” commented Sainz.
Also, he emphasized that “at the moment the car is responding well” and, asked if he will ‘store’ in the next few days, he asserted: “There is a small savings here. If we start saving now… trying to get there without problems is a priority, but I’ll throw away what I saved yesterday and today.”Sainz insisted.
Raising the figure of Peterhansel, who achieved his 50th victory
Finally, he celebrated the victory of his teammate, Stéphane Peterhansel, his fiftieth as a Dakar car driver, a figure that equals him with the Finnish Ari Vatanen and that marks the maximum number of wins of a rally car driver. , where he holds the record for stages won, with 83 between cars (50) and motorcycles (33).
“Only an outstanding guy like him can do it. He’s a guarantee, he’s so, so solid… he knows this race so well you have to count on him.”Sainz concluded about his French teammate.
Source: La Verdad
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