Pablo Quintanilla: “The navigation was really tricky”

Dakar 2020 | Stage 3 | Neom > Neom
January 7 ^th 2020 - 14:39 [GMT + 3]

The Chilean achieved the 7th best time on the stage, but was among the riders who may have missed a way-point and whose time could be altered by the race officials.

“It was a really difficult stage today. On the first part, I caught up with the guy who won yesterday, Branch I think is his name. He crashed and I stayed with him until he had recovered a little bit – he’d had a big crash. Then it was good until the second refuelling and the navigation was really tricky, plus I started to lose oil from the fork, from the front brake. It was kind of difficult to ride like this. On the last part, there was one way-point that was not in the place it should have been. We were searching for a few minutes with other guys and finally we decided to carry on. It was the hardest stage for everybody and we will see what will happen”.