Toby Price: "Fingers crossed it gets us into second"

Dakar 2018 | Stage 13 | San juan > Cordoba
January 19 ^th 2018 - 17:47 [GMT -3]

Toby Price still has a goal to accomplish on the Dakar 2018: to make up the 5 minutes separating him from Kevin Benavides and 2nd place on the Dakar.

“Very, very good. It’s good to get the stage out of the way. All the day went really well. This morning we had a couple of tricky bits, but it was a good fast track with really rough sections, so I pushed pretty hard there and made a little bit of time. I’m not to sure about the last bit, but we made a few small mistakes and went off track a bit. I felt good, I pushed hard and I made it to the finishing line so I'm happy. I was trying to win both the stage and second place. For sure, it's nice to try and get stage wins. Coming to the end of the week and almost to the finish, I need to try and get some wins and try and get some time back. Unfortunately, I made that big mistake a few days ago and that’s cost me a lot. That’s just the way it is. We’re just trying to claw back as much as we can and show everybody that we’ve got good speed. The navigation was not so bad today. It was good, but there were a lot of speed zones in this second part. You had to be pretty careful and precise to make sure you don’t do any over-speeding. We had a couple of off-track excursions but other than this the stage went really well and we navigated well the whole day. Hopefully that's taken some time back for us, so we’ll see. It would be nice to beat Kevin. That’s the aim and the goal but Kevin’s riding really well, really strongly and really fast at the moment. He’s a little guy, so the bike’s got really good top-speed, so I’ll have to try and beat him on corner-speed. We’re just trying to mow down as much time as we can and fingers crossed it gets us into second, but if not 12 weeks ago I would have laughed and said I wouldn’t have been here on the starting line and if anyone said I was going to maybe try and push for a podium finish I definitely would have laughed pretty hard then. We’ll see… It would be nice to try and get onto the second step. At the moment, third is not looking too bad, but it’s not over yet”.