Nasser Al Attiyah: "It was a really bad day for us"

Dakar 2018 | Stage 4 | San Juan de Marcona > San Juan de Marcona
January 9 ^th 2018 - 14:43 [GMT -5]

The Qatari driver went from one mishap to another on stage 4 and now lies almost one hour behind general standings leader Stéphane Peterhansel.

“It was a very difficult day. We had two flat tyres at the beginning and afterwards we took care because we didn’t have any spares. At the first dunes, we went into a big hole and got stuck for thirty minutes, before it happened a second time. We lost pressure in one of the tyres. We tried to put air back in and we were stuck again for thirty or twenty minutes. It was a really difficult day for us. We’re here now at the finish and we’ll see what we can do. We need to push at maximum pace and we’ll see what we can do. It was really not easy. We had two flat tyres and then we had to look after the tyres for the remaining 220 kilometres. Then just suddenly we got stuck. It was not easy to get out quickly. It was a bad day for us. Nothing is finished, but we will try as from tomorrow. Anything can happen. It’s still a long race.