“Once again the Dakar hits you with an open hand”

Farrés saw it coming and that he didn’t even know what he was going to find in a dreaded ‘Empty Quarter’ that ended up not being such a big deal. The Catalan commented after his first victory in this Dakar that one had to be careful due to mechanical problems that could ruin the race and although he estimated the loss of around 15 minutes, his failure made him suffer an hour against the winner Baciuska . A piece without spare parts that never breaks ended up being the culprit of everything. “A fan that costs nothing has been broken by vibrations”, Farrés explained, somewhat crestfallen after a hard blow: “Once again the Dakar hits you with an open hand.”

The desert has not been generous with a pilot who just a year ago let his victory slip away to ensure his return. And it seems that he doesn’t even do favors to those who make the competition even more beautiful. He started the day well, with a maximum difference of three minutes In front of the leader, but 68 kilometers from reaching the finish line and leaving the dunes behind, things broke down. The fan stopped working, it went “whaand the car would heat up and lose water”. From there another race began, that of repairing a breakdown that was almost an ordeal: “We have had to stop and start until we have found a car with water and we have been able to ask it. diego later He made an invention that has allowed us to get there.”

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“In the end you stop fighting for victory, but you are here”, commented for immediately after getting out of the car, ask quickly how was the classification after this setback. Farrés wants to know what his goals are from now on, after “any nonsense that you don’t control leaves you out”, and remembers that “this race does not forgive”: “You can be plugged in, we were, but it does not depend on us” . What does depend is to raise your head for all the work well done during an edition that leaves them full of “rage and impotence” with three days to go. “But this is the Dakar”, and he doesn’t forgive…

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