This time it will be difficult to sell us on any fan problem… Very poorly off to a start at the start of Dakar 2025, after having yo-yoed on Sunday in the Saudi dunes to regulate the temperature of his engine, the fishy Sébastien Loeb will only have himself to blame this time. Or any desert moles who would have taken great pleasure in lathering his board.
Determined to make up for the delay accumulated since the start of the race, a little less than twenty minutes behind the overall leader, the Saudi driver Yazeed al-Rajhi, the former WRC champion put the rubber on the line from the start of Tuesday's stage.
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New problems at kilometer 63
To the point of scratching well enough on a track that is seemingly innocuous at first glance, with a nice rollover and a Dacia Sandrider bursting into the great depths. All after only twelve short kilometers of racing…
Fortunately for the French driver and his sidekick Fabian Lurquin, both of whom emerged unscathed from this bumper car ride, the damage was able to be repaired fairly quickly and the race was able to resume with only eight minutes late at the first check-in, after 36 km.
But that was without counting on a new mechanical tile at kilometer 63, forcing the two friends to fall behind, more significantly, by almost 50 minutes. The dreams of victory already seem dead and buried in the Saudi desert. When it doesn't want to…
