Nasser Al Attiyah: “It was absolutely the time to attack”

Dakar 2023 | Stage 2 | BISHA > BISHA
January 2 ^nd 2023 - 16:02 [GMT + 3]

The title holder regained more than 5 minutes over leader Carlos Sainz and looks set to also make gains over several of his rivals in the general rankings, including Loeb and Chicherit.

“It was absolutely the time to attack and drive a good stage. It was not an easy day because I am sure a lot of problems will happen today because there were a lot of rocks and the navigation wasn’t easy. I’m really quite happy to make day two a good stage. We had one flat tyre, one puncture at the beginning, but after that we tried to be really careful in the stony places. In the sand we pushed and I’m quite happy. I was thinking the start of the race would be very easy but it was really tricky, you know – well done to the organisers”.