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  • 30/01/2025
2025 Dakar Rally - Stage 8
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00:29No, it was all good.
00:30I mean, of course, opening is always tough,
00:32but it was nice to get some experience.
00:34And congrats to the whole team.
00:36Congrats to Yazeed and Hank.
00:37Still 1-2.
00:39It was great for the team, and let's keep going.
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00:45Yeah, I mean, we waited 18 minutes for Hank from the start.
00:49And, yeah, the main thing was to support him.
00:52But, you know, if I just take away that 18 minutes,
00:54I would have been top three.
00:56We knew that if Hank needed a tire, we were his backup,
01:00so we couldn't really push too much in the rocky stuff.
01:04Made it all the way to the front.
01:06And, yeah, passed everybody but Yazeed,
01:09and then had a guy come back by us after passing him
01:13after 100 meters and break our windshield,
01:15which was frustrating.
01:16So, yeah, other than that, it was a good day,
01:18a good start position for tomorrow,
01:19and made up a lot of time in the overall.
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01:23And we thought the tire was going to come off the rim,
01:25so we decided to stop, put a bit of air in the tire,
01:28and we lost a bit of time there as well.
01:30But all in all, for us to be second, Hank to be first,
01:33couldn't ask for a better position for us today.
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01:38Yeah, we left a bit of time on the table.
01:40It's not, it was, like I said, not the perfect day,
01:43but you can never be upset with a stage win,
01:46and we'll enjoy this today,
01:48and then we'll have to put our heads down
01:50and focus flat out for tomorrow
01:52because we'll be opening the stage.
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