Nasser Al-Attiyah he started off on the wrong foot at first Dakar wearing team colors prodrive. He had problems in stage 1 but then started a comeback that took him to second place overall before the start of 48h super marathon stage of more than 600km. For many, the fifth stage is important not to win so as not to open the way to this extra stage. However, for the winner of the last two editions of the rally there is no other goal.
So the Qatari pushed his Prodrive to the limit in the 118km special and took the first stage victory with his new team. The management game, for another day. “I don’t have a specific strategy, I want to win the stage; it doesn’t matter what happens tomorrow because it’s 600 km, I don’t mind opening a track, even if I lose time. “What’s important to me is finishing that 600 km.”
At this stage of success, Nasser moved ahead of Sainz in the general classification and became the first Al-Rajhi chaserleads the classification with a 9’03” advantage. Carlos He remains in third position 11’31 behind the Saudi driver, but by playing with strategy in the fifth stage and finishing outside the TOP25, has a more advantageous position to be the fastest in the sea of sand coming our way: the famous ‘Empty Quarter’.
Source: La Verdad
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