The Dakar changes course for its second week with smoother stages

What is sure to happen is a different journey than the first week. Until then, the competitors have gone through rough stages, full of traps. It’s possible that the skimming is now over and the decision is down to the wheel and sand, the main menu announced on the menu. Even if we should not imagine that the time of hardship is over: “We started in the washing machine, now it’s the wringer”, describes Jean-Marc Fortin, the boss of Toyota, one of whose drivers, the unexpected Lategan, is leading the race. “We have been consistent, without doing anything spectacular, and we will have to continue to do more or less the same thing”slips the 30-year-old South African.