It was with a Mini damaged on all sides and morale destroyed that Guerlain Chicherit arrived this Saturday at the end of the 413 km of the first special of the Dakar, traced in a loop around the Bisha bivouac. “Complicated day, he summed up dejectedly. We started way back in the starting order so we found ourselves in the dust of those in front, without GPS or Sentinel system (which allows you to warn competitors who are going to be overtaken and who have suffered a general breakdown). Twice I shot straight into the trees, which ended up ripping the hood off. At the end, we even had the start of a fire, with a body part starting to catch fire. I'm obviously a little annoyed, we didn't have any luck in the prologue and we're paying for it today. We'll see what happens in the rankings, in any case we shouldn't have been in front but we'll see how much we lose. »
