Seth Quintero: “We kind of just got unlucky”

Dakar 2023 | Stage 2 | BISHA > BISHA
January 2 ^nd 2023 - 19:15 [GMT + 3]

Although he finished third only seven minutes behind the day’s winner, Mitchell Guthrie, Seth Quintero was not really satisfied with the second stage at the finishing line. The American, who is second in the general rankings, is biding his time…

“It was a lot rougher than I expected. I thought we were going to be out there for 3 to 4 hours, but we were out there for almost 7 hours, so it was a long day, but I had a lot of fun and I love these long stages. We had a pretty clean day today. I had two flats before 100 kilometres, so I put it in cruise control to get it to the finishing line. It’s a long, long race and there’s a long way to go. I’m happy to be at the finishing line. I hope we’re in the top 5. I don’t know where I’m at yet, but hopefully we’ll be up front. It is what it is, and we’re here to see another day. The rocks weren’t that bad to be honest, we just got unlucky with two little slow leaks. It was a bummer to deal with that. We felt them going flat about thirty kilometres each tyre. It is what it is. I know we had a really good pace at the beginning. We caught the leader and we were going to take it easy and just follow him. But we kind of just got unlucky. It is what it is, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, but hopefully tomorrow our luck turns around and we’ll have a good day”.