“I’m quite happy today just to finish the stage. It was 194 km of very fast tracks, like a WRC race with a lot of spectators. We are quite happy to be here. I don’t know if we’ve won the stage or if we’re second, but it looks like we’ve won the stage.
That’s not bad because we opened the road. It meant we had a good base and we didn’t push a lot. We’re just trying to keep it like this. It’s very hard the Dakar because when we started on the second day it was not easy until today. Now we’ll try to bring everything back to Buenos Aires and to win this Dakar because it will be very important for me, for my sponsor Red Bull,
for Qatar, for everybody who supports me. It’s a shame what has happened to Yazeed because he had a problem from yesterday with the engine. I feel sorry for him but this is the Dakar. You need to watch out for many, many things.
He will learn and he will come back stronger next year. You need to be careful even until the podium. When you finish the Dakar, it’s only finished after the podium”.