Tosha will be runner-up in Dakar: “The time will come to have success ahead of us”

I reached the bivouac Shubaytah between the applause of the mechanics and all the team members sling bag. Tosha Schareina won stage 11, the penultimate special of Dakar 2025and took some time from the general leader, Daniel Sandersbut that time is not enough. The Australian, if nothing unusual happens in the last 60 km, will be proclaimed champion of the Dakar 2025 on motorcycles this Friday in the final stage against the Spaniard, who will be 2nd, runner-up, a result that is considered good after having fought until end.

“Well, we don’t give it for what was lost (a miracle would be missing in the last stage). A second position is not bad at all. Of course when we all leave the house we want to win, but we tried until the end. We have everything, I’m sure he has problems too, but I’m happy. “Three years ago, we were fighting to come and fight and now we are fighting for victory.”argued in front of the Spanish press present at the bivouac, with them MDhighlights the years of work behind it to reach this situation.

“It took a long time to get there, the people closest to me knew it and nothing is free. “I am happy to be here in this position, because it took me a long time to get there, but I still have a long way to go,” he argued with a forceful warning: “I suppose that at some point in Dakar the time will come to have victory in front of us and we will fight for it.”

THE DEBATE BETWEEN THE PILOTS BEFORE CHOOSING STAGE 11

“All the pilots except two agreed, for a matter of safety and vision in the dunes. It was too late, we were coming in too late and I think we had already traveled many kilometers. But that’s not an excuse. I think, in the end, it was a decision that could potentially harm me, but we made this decision for safety. We all know that in the midday sands nothing can be seen and anything that can happen is calculated. that it was yesterday, that if we reach Daniel (Sanders) I was two positions short of winning and even if I did, I wasn’t going to let it get away, nothing would change, we all knew it wouldn’t change so we all decided to shorten the stage.

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN TESTED

“Until the end I tried to push. Of course now we have two missions, defend our position and try to chase Daniel. We have to do the same thing as before, give gas from second to the end, and of course. I’m not “I’ve given up.” Tomorrow we will go all out, but honestly it’s very difficult.”

SANDERS WILL BE CHAMPION

“I’m very happy for him, because he’s done a great job. He’s going very fast and being very consistent. We all know he’s a very fast driver and I’m happy because he’s great.”

HE SHOWED HE CAN FIGHT FOR SUCCESS

“Of course you have to give everything, but when we are here (at Honda) it is because they believe in me from the first moment. I bet they, but obviously we have to achieve results for them. to continue the betting.”