Thirty-two years old and 1’44”. This is what separates Carlos Sainz (61 years old) and Guillaume de Mevius (29 years old) in marital status and in the general classification of the Dakar. A big hundred seconds of difference which allowed the Belgian on Saturday, after more than 4 hours 30 minutes of effort and spending a good part of the 414 km of the race squeezing his buttocks between the stones, to open his stage victory counter, he who discovered driving a prototype less than three months ago. “I had not planned to race in T1 (the premier category in rally-raid) this year, but rather to do an additional year in T3 before joining the premier category. Everything came together at the last minute to be here. »
