Sébastien Loeb: “Winning the rally is starting to look complicated"

Dakar 2025 | Stage 3 | BISHA > AL HENAKIYAH
January 7 ^th 2025 - 15:56 [GMT + 3]

The Dacia driver experience a series of problems on stage 3 and now trails the race leader by 1 hour and 14 minutes.

“At the start of the special, I thought we were on the tracks, but we were to the side. I hit a rutt that turned us sideways and the car rolled. That took the tyres off two wheels, but we managed to sort it out within 5 minutes. There wasn’t so much damage, but after fifty kilometres we broke a steering rod. It’s not a serious problem, but our spare part was with the bits of bodywork that had been ripped off when the car rolled. Cristina stopped to give us one, but after that the front engine fan stopped working, so we drove at SSV pace during almost all the stage. It wasn’t the kind of day we prefer. We lost an hour and we got the feeling that we were in ‘it’ up to our necks… But it is what it is, we just have to continue. We’ll keep on racing and we’ll see, even if winning the rally is starting to look complicated”.