The French pilot Sebastien Loeb (Prodrive) secured this Tuesday after winning the ninth stage of the Dakar and cutting four minutes off the Spaniard Carlos Sainz (Audi), who is the overall leader, that if the Madrid native does not have “a mechanical, navigational problem or a puncture”, winning the Dakar will be “very difficult.”
“Recovering the time lost to Sainz just because of speed will be difficult. Carlos is fast and if he doesn’t have engine problems, navigation problems or punctures, of course it will be very difficult,” highlighted by the French in statements to Spanish journalists attending the rally in Dakar.
Loeb, who was 20 minutes and 33 seconds behind Sainzemphasized that he was happy with the victory and the stage they made, especially when they had two holes in the first half of the stage and “for that” they lost “time”, but “other than that”They had a good day.
So, he emphasized that he just had to “push” the three remaining days of the Dakar and “have a good navigation”, nothing else: “We can’t think about what others are doing. We have to do our job”stressed the Frenchman, who is still looking for his first Dakar, after seven failed attempts.
About the certain abandonment of the current champion and his colleague, the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah (Prodrive), the Frenchman emphasized that “It is always important” to have a partner nearby, “especially in the following days, when we reach an area with a lot of rocks so we know it will be part of the game.”
Source: La Verdad
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