The Castellón pilot Joan Barreda (Hero) confirmed this Tuesday Dakar 2024 “is not a comfortable or easy race” for him, but he insists that he should stay positive, that he is “in the race.”
Barreda, who was allowed again this Tuesday, for the third consecutive stage, with a one-minute penalty, emphasized that these stages are “very difficult and with very difficult navigation”, while highlighting the special stages is “very physical.”
“We’re on day four and tomorrow is a long day and then a marathon that’s also long”said Barreda, who received a total of 21 minutes of penalties in the last three days, twelve of them in Monday’s episode, for doubling the speed limit allowed in two different sections.
But “despite all the setbacks, we have to take the positives,” commented the Spaniard. “In the end you have to be there, although it is true that it is not an easy or comfortable race for me, but you have to take the positives,” he said.
The pilot from Castellón finished seventh in this fourth stage between the Saudi towns of Al Salamiya and Al Hofuf and moved up to twelfth position overall, 42 minutes behind the leader, although without the penalties could he be fifth, just 21 minutes behind.
Source: La Verdad
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