“Today’s terrible day. Yesterday, 6 kilometers away, we hit camel grass at high speed, very hard. The car is very strong and nothing happened to it. As a result of that blow, my back said enough,” he wrote on his social networks. .
“12 km into the special (today) I began to feel severe pain in my waist. I understand that the impact caused inflammation in the injury that I dragged on my lower back. After the good specials we did with Alex (Haro Bravo, co-pilot) I felt that this could be a good Dakar. That’s as far as it came. Such is life and such is sport,” he announced.
newfoundland, of 43 years, was located in the 16th. position in the general classification after signing his best result on Tuesday, a third place in the segment that united Al-Ula with Ha’il.
The Mendoza deserter for the eighth time and maintains fourth place from last year as his best historical performance in the race.
On motorcycles, the 2021 champion Kevin Benavides (Red Bull KTM) finished today’s stage in seventh place, six seconds behind his brother Luciano (Husqvarna)which was ranked sixth.
The winner of the day was the Spanish Joan Barreda Bort (Monster Energy JB) with a time of 4:28:18, followed by the Chilean Pablo Quintanilla (Monster Energy Honda) 16 seconds behind and from the American Skyler Howes (Husqvarna) at 1:05.
With his victory, the Catalan pilot came within 25 seconds of Kevin Benavides, who retains third place in the accumulated table with a difference of 4:05 compared to the leader Daniel Sanders (Red Bull Gas Gas).
The Australian entered eighth, below the Argentines, in the fourth segment of a Dakar which will continue tomorrow with a second round in Ha’il (373 kilometers of special and 270 of connection).
Source: Ambito
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