Matthias Walkner: "Maybe luck was on my side this time"

Dakar 2018 | Stage 14 | Cordoba > Cordoba
January 20 th 2018 - 13:42 [GMT -3]

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On his fourth participation in the Dakar, the Austrian rider has won… riding an Austrian bike!

“It’s really, really amazing. I was never thinking that I really could win. The goal was to stay on the podium, but it was so close this year and day ten was a key day. Maybe luck was on my side this time, but it's really a dream come true. It was a really crazy Dakar. The riding level was so high. There were five other people who could have won it but it looks like I was the lucky one. I was surely a little bit lucky. I think that on the Dakar you need a bit of luck on but sometimes you have it and sometimes you don’t have it. This time it was on my side. In 2016 after my bad injury, that changed a lot for me. It's so cool to be back here”.

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