Seth Quintero: “It was super awesome!”

Dakar 2023 | Stage 5 | AL-HOFUF > SHUBAYTAH
January 5 th 2023 - 18:27 [GMT + 3]

After a complicated start to the rally, Seth Quintero has grabbed his first stage victory and has climbed onto the provisional podium in the general rankings. Although he is more than one hour behind the leader, the American driver knows that the Dakar can hold plenty of surprises in store before the finishing line on the last special has been crossed.  

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“It was super awesome. Yesterday, unfortunately we had that big issue running out of fuel and shearing the hub of the left rear. Today I had, not what I would call frustration, but I had a lot to prove to myself. We haven’t got a stage win yet, so I figured that it’s time to get one of those. We drove really well all day long and made no mistakes. We definitely had a little bit more left in the tank, but I think today we had an awesomely conservative pace just to get the job done. We’re going to keep doing that. I think we’ve gone to third overall, so we’re back in it. We’re still about an hour and twenty minutes down off the overall. There’s a long way to go and we’ve got a lot of racing left, so we’ll keep trying to do our best and see what happens”.

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