Mason Klein: “I just kind of don’t remember what happened”

Dakar 2023 | Stage 9 | HAIL > ALULA
January 10 ^th 2023 - 12:10 [GMT + 3]

Mason Klein was joint 2nd with Kevin Benavides this morning but lost his roadbook at the beginning of the special after a fall. He fell again at the end of the special, after hitting Ross Branch, according to him. The American drops down to 6th place in the general rankings, 18’42’’ from the rally’s summit.

“I don’t really know, I think I crashed somewhere near 300 km. I just kind of don’t remember what happened. I remember that I ran into someone; I think it was Ross. I think we came together. It’s just my arm that kind of hurts, so we’ve wrapped it up. My roadbook fell out of my vest at the beginning of the race, for the second half. I felt like for the whole time we were going slowly because I wasn’t doing any navigating. I didn’t know if the navigation was difficult or not. I just had to sit with everybody. Because of that we were all riding really close, making the chances of running into each other a lot higher, I guess. I feel okay, but I think I lost my helmet visor at the beginning of the day, I don’t really know. I think Ross and I just hit each other. It was frustrating”.