Rally director David Castera had already claimed that the grueling first week would create big differences in the standings. But that the other will offer enough opportunities to erase them again. In the truck category, there are such gaps that only four crews are actually fighting for victory, with Martin Macík leading by an hour and 16 minutes ahead of Aleš Loprais.
“What tactics will we go into the second part with? We just have half of the Dakar ahead of us. We can’t be defensive about it. We’ll eat our own. Where we need to slow down, we slow down and where we need to fly, we fly. We cannot say that we have a huge lead. Look at what was before the Empty Quarter, when we lost 40 minutes and now it’s the other way around,” said Macík.
Dakar is so far even more hardcore than I expected, confirms Libor Podmol. The rest of the famous rally will go without a second place Video: Podmol Dakar team
Many riders have problems – medical and technical. For example, motorcyclist Martin Michek continues with a sore wrist, Libor Podmol, in addition to a swollen eye, also struggles with the fact that he cannot shift into second gear. “It’s hardcore,” said Podmol in a video shot for Sport.cz.
Milan Engel, who was in 19th place, then lost significantly in the beginning of Sunday’s erzety. His rosette, which he was changing during his day off, broke. In order for him to continue, his teammate Jaromír Romančík, who was already out of the race, gave him his bike.
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