Fernando Alonso is looking back with a good feeling in his debut in the Dakar Rally. The Spaniard knew that he had to get used to the traffic at the well-known woestijnrally.
“We had a day in which the complications are not hampered, but we have tried to make the problem as small as possible, and to do so, looked His Sunday Autosport.com go back to the first stage. “The car felt good, was comfortable and I had no fear.”
The 38-year-old Alonso finished the first stage of the eleventh. The two-time world champion in Formula-1, which is true for Toyota and Gazoo Racing, gave it a quarter of an hour to stage winner Vaidotas Zala of Latvia.
“We want to be a little bit careful to begin with”, he said. “In the initial stages, we don’t want strange things to do, and more about the race and learn the car and to the site and get to know.”
Alonso will drive in Saudi Arabia, along with navigator Marc Coma, the Dakar Rally five times, won it on the power. The pace of the Toyota was, in any case, live up to his expectations.
“I think they (the participants-ed.). all of them are faster on the clock, but it causes more problems than I can”, he concluded. “The rhythm is more or less what I expected. I’ve got a little more in my potential, but now is not the time to get that all out.”
as Fernando Alonso finished eleventh in the first race. (Photo: Pro-Shots).
“We want to be in the second week, a little more on the gas’ < / p> In the second week, Followed the pace of what to perform and hopes that he will be less traffic. As for the motorcycles and quad bikes more of a start-up, it was quite crowded at some places in the world.
“our hope is that in the second week, not so many cars, motorbikes and quad-bikes, because it looks like a jungle from the middle of the stage. If our car is still in great shape, we are going to try to bring some more gas in it”, he concluded.
this is not the first time, that His action occurs in a different type of racing than Formula 1. So, he has won for the past two years, the 24 hours of Le Mans, and he did that in 2017, the last year of the Indy 500.
See also: Overview of the stages and participants of the Dakar
