It was barely a 19-kilometer aperitif, but it suited the Carlos Sainz his second place 12 seconds behind Al Attiiyah, and therefore the entire Audi team. Because the sensations of the RS Q e-tron were positive on its debut in a Dakar and if the Madrilenian, who has experienced a few, is this satisfied, it is a good sign: “Happy to have already started a milestone in the history of this car, first test passed without problems. Now we can say that we have done a stage, even if it is a small prologue. “
Sainz spoke with several Spanish media, AS among them, after greeting the president of the FIA, Mohamed ben Sulayem, as soon as he got out of his car and after passing through the Dakar starting podium in Hail. “It has been a relief to do the first stage already. Tomorrow or the day after, whatever may happen, but at least we have already done one”, He commented without losing his face of satisfaction, especially because he knows the effort that the whole team has made to get here: “I am very happy for all the people involved in the project.”
“There is a lot of effort behind the car, so it is good to have started and we will see the race. We have to continue, start, go step by step and more than ever, go day by day,” he says pulling philosophy. cholista, the one that plays in these first steps in which above all you have to be cautious and not look at your rivals: “It was an unrepresentative stage, you have to wait for the rally to start and see how everything is going.” Hopefully that from which it starts well can be applied …