Carlos Sainz (Audi)new leader of the general classification of the Dakar 2024 with more than 20 minutes over the second in the table, said this Friday at the end of the sixth stage that will look to “continue to pass the days without major mistakes” in the second week.
Sainz emphasized that He was very pleased to finish second in the sixth stage and became the leader in the general classificationwhile he took a minute in the general classification on the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah (Prodrive), stranded in the desert due to a mechanical problem, and finished with 20 minutes and 21 seconds on the Swede Mattias Ekström (Audi) and 29 minutes and 31 seconds to Frenchman Sébastien Loeb (Prodrive).
“It was a difficult special stage and we survived“said Sainz, who last Thursday showed himself on the sands of the Rub al-Jali desert and who this Friday tried not to lose what he had gained in the first of the two days of the sixth stage that ended today.
“We were leaders on the ‘rest day’, which was a good balance of the first week and we had to keep going forward as we started“said the Spanish pilot, who will rest this Saturday with other pilots in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
So, he insisted that they are “every day with humility” and will try to “continue to spend days without major mistakes and see what happens.”that leads to an exciting second week of rallying for Sainz and his co-driver Lucas Cruz, where the Spaniard could win his fourth Dakar.
Source: La Verdad
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