Brian Baragwanath: “We went slow to go faster”»

Dakar 2021 | Stage 5 | Riyadh > Al Qaisumah
January 7 ^th 2021 - 16:16 [GMT + 3]

Following second place on the prologue in Jeddah, the South African, taking part in the Dakar for the first time in the car race, has achieved the 2nd best time on a fully-fledged rally-raid stage by taking care with the navigation…

“Today we went slow to go faster. We calmed down and tried to just look at the navigation. Taye Perry did a very good job. It’s the first time for us in a big race like this to be navigating like this. Navigation on this Dakar has been super tough. We made some big mistakes on stage two. We missed a way point and lost twenty minutes. Now we’re really just focusing on getting a rhythm and working together. I found that when you calm down and focus on your caps and your oblique corners… the tricky thing is that it’s a cap over a long corner, so you almost have to hold your steering for a little longer and take the corner slowly when there isn’t really a road, so that is the very difficult part. From the Dakars I’ve done in 2015 and 2016 it is definitely way, way more difficult, but it’s something different for me. It’s cool”.