Yesterday, mechanics led by MARC left the truck as good as new again, with a credit balance. We started on an arid and dusty track, in the words of the race director, a Moroccan stage, due to the harshness and stoniness of the terrain, a dry soil degraded by torrential rains that left the track destroyed with countless holes and traps where the less experienced drivers suffered the consequences of their inexperience. As a result of the delay in yesterday's stage when we got stuck on the dune, we started quite late, we had to overtake a lot of vehicles, mostly SSVs, the small buggies, which despite immediately moving out of the way at the touch of the sentinel, continue to hinder our progress because due to the characteristics of today's track, it is not always easy to move aside to allow us to overtake, and despite that, until you are relatively close, and in the dust it is always difficult, you do not enter the range of action of the sentinel, so with each overtake we lose precious seconds, if not minutes. From kilometer 120 onward, the stage was incredibly fast, covering sandy plains where we almost always traveled at the speed limit for trucks: 140 km/h. Before the finish, a 17km section at heading 83° over small dunes and then another 21km section off-piste led us to the finish line. Today, the Andorran rider had a great time, he had fun, and Marc and I had a great time on an easy stage. Gas i xampany!!! Ferran MarcoWe started early in the morning to make the 370 km link
Dakar. Stage 9 Wadi Al-Dawasir - Haradh
