The Corbera driver finished the seventh stage of the Dakar Rally in 22nd position: “It was a good day, but I have a bittersweet taste”.
“We know that we could have achieved a much better result, but we had a problem with power and with a brake caliper that affected us,” he explained.
Laia Sanz He continues to face adversity. The KH-7 driver started the seventh stage of the Dakar Rally with the intention of returning to the Top 10, but some technical problems prevented her from completing her progression and she had to settle for the 22nd fastest time of the day. at 28’04” of the winner of the special.
The timed section, of 333 kilometres, had a bit of everything: tracks, stony areas, dunes… A menu in which Laia Sanz felt comfortable, and in which she could have ridden in prominent positions again, the same as in the second stage, before she lost a wheel due to broken studs. However, she very soon noticed that something was not going as it should.
“Today we could have run a lot and we know we could have gotten a much better result, but we had a problem with power and a brake caliper that affected us. From the beginning of the special I have noticed that the car was not running”, regrets.
Despite everything, Corbera’s pilot has finished again at the gates of the Top 20 with the ASTARA 01, which shows that his potential in terms of driving is above that position. That explains his mixed feelings about him: “Today has been a good day, in short, but I have a bittersweet taste because we were doing well. We navigated perfectly, which was not easy, and I really liked the stage, because it was very good for my driving style and it was also very favorable for our car”.
“At first we thought it was the differential, but in the two-hour service that we have had, the mechanics have seen that the problem was in a brake caliper and in the engine map. They have been able to solve it and I hope that tomorrow we can go out and do a good stage& rdquor ;, he comments after covering the two hours of assistance allowed in this kind of stage semimarathon improvised by the organization due to weather difficulties.