RALLY DAKAR 2018

Ten-minute penalty for Carlos Sainz
Escaped good! Carlos Sainz was penalized in ten minutes because of his incident with Kees Koolen, driver of the quad, being therefore with a little less than an hour of advance for Nasser Al-Attiyah, second of the general.Who confirmed it was Bruno Famin, Director of Peugeot, who also revealed that they intend to appeal. After several hours of listening to Sainz, Lucas Cruz and Bruno Famin, the Commissioners decided to penalize the Spaniard in ten minutes, according to Famin, for "bad behavior". For now there is only the intention to appeal, there is time to do so, and the decision may last several weeks, because it is the Court of Appeals of the FIA ​​in Paris that decides. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last ...In statements to AS, Sainz says he did not hit the quad: "It was a lot of mud, I triggered the sentinel, I see that he sees me, he leaves the track, and at that moment I accelerate, when he gets off the track loses control, back to the track and I do not succeed by miracle. But I did not touch him. My car does not have any impact and if I hit you disintegrated it, it had been much worse, "said Sainz. But its version did not totally convince the Commissioners, and so the ten minutes, having only 56 minutes of advance to the Toyota of Al Attiyah.

José Luis Abreu, de Portugal