Sébastien Loeb: "We dodged the bullet"

Dakar 2019 | Stage 6 | Arequipa > San Juan de Marcona
January 13 ^th 2019 - 15:37 [GMT -5]

Loeb took his third stage win in the 2019 Dakar in the same place where he had to withdraw in 2018, and cut his deficit to leader Nasser Al-Attiyah, who nevertheless still holds a 37-minute margin.

"It went well, but we made mistakes. We saw Nasser make the same blunder, so we both lost two minutes. We drove around looking for a waypoint, but I think we weren't the only ones, it was a tricky stage. We didn't get stuck, we saw the hole where it happened last year, but we dodged the bullet. I'm very happy to have reached the finish. It's not over yet, there's still a lot of racing ahead of us."