Stage seven on this year's Dakar Rally was a good day for us, tomorrow the riders will be faced with a really long stage with 483km against the clock, so it will be really tough. We have three riders that will set off in the top five places, Ricky will line up tenth and Skyler a place behind. We will try tomorrow with Ricky and Skyler to recover time, so we’ll see how that goes. Tosha, Pablo and Adrien will try to catch Daniel Sanders on tomorrow’s stage and hopefully reduce the time in the overall standings.

It was a good day, I can’t complain. I had fun on the bike, I felt good and I was able to push, so I’m super happy. The stage was not easy, there were some tricky navigation points, there were also a lot of dunes with many off piste sections. But I felt really good, I enjoyed the riding today and I finally had a good result. I’m happy with my riding, my navigation and I really enjoyed the day.

Stage seven was OK, not the best for us as opening absolutely kills you for an overall podium, but we got through the day and I’m happy to be here. With five days more of racing there's still a good chance to claw back at a podium position. The road books have been super tricky and for race speed it's almost impossible to race the guys starting further back.
It's really a bummer the games that are being played with these tablets though, the organisation needs to do something about this as it is driving me crazy more than anything, but we will be back on top someday soon. We will fight until we're happy and won't stop until we win.

Early on in the special I had a bit of a crash. I came over this crest and it had a rut and some rocks in it, the back tyre just stepped out and kind of catapulted me off the bike. I went flying and while I was in the air the air bag deployed. I felt that and knew I was going to be a bit protected when I hit the ground. I landed hard enough that it knocked the wind out of me and also popped my hydration bag on the back, so I laid on the ground for a bit with the air knocked out of me before I could catch my breath. I kept going, but from there it was hard to find the rhythm and continue on at full pace. I eventually found it but I’m pretty sore right now and looking forward to a hot shower and a massage.
I’m ready to keep going, I think I just go back to my original plan which is every day to take it for what it is.

There are still a lot of kilometres to do but today we did a really good stage again. It was a good day to start a little further back, yesterday I didn’t expect to be so far in front, but that’s part of rally-raid. I’m giving my best everyday, so it’s good and I’m happy about how my stage went today.

Today we had rain on the liaison and it was so cold too. The first part of the stage was so nice after the rain had fallen, the sandy section was really good to ride on. After the first refuelling I saw the dust of Nacho Cornejo so I tried to push to catch him which I did. After that we tried to push and catch the guys in front and in the last 200 kilometres we were riding together. With the rain and no dust it was easier for us to ride together and so I’m happy with my second place finish.