Seth Quintero: “We’re fighting for our own goals”

Dakar 2022 | Stage 9 | HAIL > ALULA
January 11 ^th 2022 - 15:06 [GMT + 3]

Quintero played it safe today to avoid a puncture

“We had a smooth day. A really rocky day so we were trying to not get a flat tyre. Definitely, I drove pretty consistently and preservative today, but we had a smooth day. I’m not sure where we ended up. I know we’re definitely going to be in a battle with Cristina. I guess we’ll find out here in probably about an hour. There’s no team orders out here, we’re definitely fighting for our own goals. Cristina is still in the game for the overall, so hopefully she keeps on climbing up those ranks and obviously I’m in the hunt to break the record for the most stage wins. We’ve got a few stages to go and we need a few more to break the record, so hopefully we can get them and click that record off. Cristina is a very fast, consistent and smooth driver. She really doesn’t make any mistakes so it’s not going to be easy for us to try to break that record. There are fifty other people in this class that can obviously win the race. Everyone in this class is a stellar driver. It’s definitely not going to be easy, but I hope that we can get it done. We need ten to tie the record and eleven to break it. We’re at eight right now but fingers crossed it will be nine tonight and then we’ll really try to click off these next three stages and get those wins. With all these stage wins, I believe we get around five points for the W2RC, but we’re really just trying to get as many points as we can. We’re not in it for the overall and the overall will be worth fifty points, so we definitely have some points to make up and we’ll just try to keep grabbing them. We’re planning on fighting the whole year for the T3 title. Last year we came up pretty short just because we had a bad start, but this year we’re definitely going to be going for it and hopefully we can grab that title”.