Guillaume de Mévius: “It was a tough day, a difficult day”

Dakar 2025 | Stage 8 | AL DUWADIMI > RIYADH
January 13 ^th 2025 - 15:55 [GMT + 3]

De Mévius had a day to forget today. The Belgian, who finished the Dakar 2024 in second place for his first participation in the Ultimate class, has shown he is worthy of this rank but has suffered too many problems to reproduce such a performance with his new co-pilot Mathieu Baumel.

“It was a difficult stage for us. We had a technical problem at the beginning of the stage after one hundred kilometres. We had to stop to repair it and we had to start again without the rear-wheel drive, only the front. So, it was tough. We were in everybody’s dust. We had to tackle the dunes, but a car with only front-wheel drive in the dunes is not what you want. It was a tough day, a difficult day. But the rally is like this”.