Mitchell Guthrie: "Overall, it was good"

Dakar 2024 | Stage 7 | RIYADH > AL DUWADIMI
January 14 ^th 2024 - 17:47 [GMT + 3]

The disqualification of the Goczałs has played into Mitchell Guthrie's hands. The American won stage 7 and holds the overall lead ahead of Cristina Gutiérrez, now second at over half an hour from the Taurus driver.

"A good day. I'm really happy with how it went. Lots of navigation, like they were saying in the briefing, and we were on top of it. A couple of times, we did a couple of circles, but overall, it was good. I got in the lead of the T3s and kinda stayed there, I had no problems all day. It was nice to have clean air in front of us so me and Kellon could finally have some time to navigate... and no dust today. It was really nice and I'm happy to get to the finish. It was a good day.

No worries about my clutch. I don't know if a lot of people know, but my clutch was checked yesterday. They checked all of our cars. Happy to be in compliance with the rules and have no problems. It's a bummer for them for sure, and it was great racing with Eryk, so that sucks for sure, but... I'm happy to know that our car is good to go."