Laia Sanz He is still waiting for a big brand that will give him the opportunity to drive a top-class car (T1+). Meanwhile, his only way to get that chance is to follow his master’s plan. Carlos Sainzthat sending messages through his actions, as the Madrid pilot always does, more in actions than words. And the pilot of Corbera de Llobregat He did it with a very good start Dakar 2025 in the prologue stage.
Laia, due to lack of budget, had to go with a Century with two Morice wheels, below the top class 4×4 T1+. Also, you can’t train with the car all year round. To top it off, the Extreme E (electrical category) lower the blinds early. So, Laia came to Dakar 2025 with a lack of filming. And it is not like riding a bicycle, which is never forgotten. Rich pilots can afford to try and try and improve. Laia, no. He hasn’t moved the car in a year.
And despite this, he began to lead the 4×2 category, which should be his goal in this edition, to beat Vitse and at 50″ to one of the great favorites of said class, Christian Laviellewith more mileage than the Spanish behind it.
“It’s a good feeling, because in the end I haven’t touched the car since the last Dakar, we did very little yesterday.. We had to go so far away, I really don’t know why, but still, on a very broken track we have gone well, so we hope to start in a more or less decent position on stage 1, which is more relaxed after riding a bit”said the one from Corbera de Llobregat, competing in his fourth Dakar by car, the 15th in total of his 11 on motorcycles, without knowing any abandonment of his 14 previous display, something few can boast of.
Laia breathed a sigh of relief because she felt competitive again from the start, but above all, for avoiding one of the headaches that burdened her so much in the first days of the previous editions: the starting stage 1 position.
The prologue stage does not count in the general classification but it does count in establishing the starting order for stage 1. Thus, within his category he has eliminated the less fast cars that might bother the him at the beginning to be able to start faster and without too much dust in search of the scepter of two-wheel drive.
“This edition will be very difficult”
“I think it will be a very difficult edition from the beginning and I think in this first week we have to put the ‘survival mode’ at some point, especially in the 48 hour phase (2) and marathon phase (4 and 5). So no, it will be very long and there will be time to pick up the speed,” argued Sanz, bets on riding with head in a very tough first week with a two-day stage (stage 2) of more than 1,000 kilometers in which he knows that this is key to fight.
Source: La Verdad
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