Well the 48 Hour Chrono has ended and it went as expected, it was really difficult stage with almost 1000km of special stage. Skyler did a really good job to get second and was consistent throughout, so we are happy with his performance on this stage. Tosha finished third, he also did a good job, but he did lost his way on the track in the middle of the stage searching for the waypoint and this enabled twelve riders to catch him, after this point all the riders rode together. Until then he’d been riding alone accumulating the bonuses, it was a shame he made this mistake, but this is what can happen in rallying.
Near the beginning of the stage yesterday Ricky missed a jump and broke his exhaust. Due to the damage he then had to ride 900km a bit slower and eventually finished the stage in seventh. It’s only the beginning of the rally so it’s not a big problem that he lost some time. Pablo finished eighth and so we think he has a good start position for the next stage. Tomorrow is only the third stage, it feels like we’ve done six or seven stages already, but we’re motivated and set for the next few days of rallying.

It was one of the toughest stages I’ve ever ridden. Yesterday we had a lot of off piste sections, I caught up to the riders at the front with Adrien around the 200km mark and then to the end we were riding as a group. Today I started seventh, we caught the frontrunners after 100km as we were searching for the waypoint and then we rode together. Honestly the stage was super hard and very dangerous, there was a lot of dust which was crazy. I’m happy to be here and to arrive without any big issues, so now we will rest and prepare for the next stage.

I like what they did with the 48 Hour Chrono but unfortunately yesterday I smashed my exhaust 150 kilometres into the stage so that slowed me down quite a bit as I was only able to sit at 130km/h so that was a real big bummer. Then riding with a smashed pipe and a hole in the exhaust, I was a little bit worried about today as I just needed to get here to the finish. I feel like this chrono thing is kind of a waste, all the hard work we did yesterday I think kind of went down the drain, as what happens today is all that matters. I’m happy to be at the bivouac, we’ll look over the bike and then we’ll push to the end and see what we can do, its only stage two so a lot of racing left.

The 48 Hour Chrono stage was difficult and very physically demanding as the dunes were really soft, the camel grass was relentless, the rocks, the dust, everything was pretty heavy. We had a good time then we got to camp out in a tent in the desert which was fun, I think I maybe slept for a total of 30 minutes the whole night. I’m pretty smoked ready for a nap but happy to be here and also to be second in the general standings for now. We’re only on the third day so there’s a long road ahead of us but I’m really looking forward to it.

We’re finally back from the 48 Hour Chrono stage which was totally crazy. I’m really happy about performance, I did a strong, strong stage and I opened most of it. I did a good navigation, the pace was high today and I tried to ride as well as possible, but for sure the guys behind were also pushing. Let’s see what happens over the next few days.

We didn’t make any mistakes or have any crashes and that’s super good for the bike and for us. These 48 hours were really, really hard because there were more or less 300km of super soft dunes. I tried to push today after opening the stage, but in the dunes it was tough and so difficult to open. The guys behind caught me and we rode together to the end of the stage. Both days were difficult. There were 300 km of super soft dunes and it was super hard for us, we even got stuck on some dunes three or four times.