2024-01-11 15:57:39
Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel was in great difficulty on Thursday during the 6th stage, suffering from hydraulic failure and unable to lift his car to change a wheel.
Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel, Dakar legend with his 14 motorcycle and then car victories, was in great difficulty on Thursday during the 6th stage, with hydraulic failure and unable to lift his car to change a wheel.
The Audi driver stopped at the 256th km of this stage called “48h00 chrono» spread over two days in the Saudi desert, for a simple puncture.
But he was then confronted with several apparently insoluble problems: “We had a flat tire, and the body of the hydraulic jack failed. Since we don’t have a manual jack, we don’t know how we’re going to be able to change the wheel. The hydraulic system is damaged, I no longer have power steering and I don’t know how we’re going to get out of this“, he said, quoted by the race organization.
At 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. Paris time), the time when the stage was interrupted as planned, so that the competitors could reach the makeshift bivouacs set up for the night, Peterhansel had apparently still not restarted.
On Sunday, he won the second stage, the fiftieth of his car career on a Dakar, also the record of the Finn Ari Vatanen.
Peterhansel also has 33 stage victories on the Dakar on a motorcycle.
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