Sébastien Loeb: “It was looking much worse yesterday”

Dakar 2025 | Stage 2 | BISHA > BISHA
January 6 ^th 2025 - 16:07 [GMT + 3]

After suffering engine fan problems yesterday that lost him 40 minutes, Sébastien Loeb’s attack today allowed him to drive his Dacia to within 13 minutes of the day’s winner, a comeback that permits him to limit the damage.

“It was a very long stage, nearly one thousand kilometres. We had a big problem with the engine heating because of fan problems. We lost around 40 minutes on the first part of the stage. But since then, it was repaired and we pushed to the maximum. We gained a lot of time back, so we finished the stage 14 minutes from the leader, so it’s not so bad. It was looking much worse yesterday”.