Nasser Al Attiyah: “The navigation was very hard”

Dakar 2025 | Stage 8 | AL DUWADIMI > RIYADH
January 13 ^th 2025 - 13:48 [GMT + 3]

Nasser Al Attiyah lost 12’17’’ today to Henk Lategan, who won the stage and increased his lead in the general rankings. The title holder is still in 4th place overall but now trails the leader by 34’14’’.

“It was a very tough day. Sometimes when we were opening it was very difficult.  Yazeed had a good line and when he passed we just followed him, until the dunes when we passed him, but it was really difficult. I am happy to finish this day. We still have four days left and we’ll see. The navigation was very hard. Sometimes we were lucky, other times not, but we made it here”.