🗣 'It was [like] a film to keep us awake at night' 😱 Carlos Sainz Sr describes his disastrous day on the DakarRally 👇 DakarRally2023 DakarInSaudi
of Toyota, with both drivers having scored one stage win apiece during the opening two days of action in Saudi Arabia.
Explaining what had happened to a small group of media, including Motorsport.com, he said: “The stage started well, because I caught [Erik] Van Loon, I was catching Nasser and he stopped with a puncture and we passed him. “We had [a spare] in the car and we stopped to change it. Neither Lucas [Cruz, his co-driver] nor I are happy with how we did the job, because it could have been done quicker.”
“I kept going, attacking hard, but we had a flat tyre,” he said. “And we had a problem with the jack, also our mistake, it wouldn't go up, and we had to lift the car with some rocks to change the tyre.
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