After accusing Dakar2023 organisers of 'killing the race early', Toyota's Nasser Al-Attiyah has apologised for his comments and says he reacted 'in the heat of the moment'.
The FIA World Rally-Raid Championship’s Committee announced a change in the Balance of Performance on Wednesday to give cars in the T1.U class for prototype cars using renewable energies – which includes Audi’s RS Q e-tron E2 – an extra 8kW, which is believed to be worth 11bhp.
Al-Attiyah was outraged by the measure, however, and appeared to accuse the organisation of favouritism on social media,But the four-time Dakar winner apologised for his comments on Friday, writing a second post in which he said he had reacted “in the heat of the moment.”“I like to defend my title fairly, and at the first instant, the decision did not seem fair.
Peterhansel had built an advantage of well over a minute after crossing the timing mark at 207km, but disaster struck just minutes later when his Audi RS Q e-tron was involved in a major crash. Such was the scale of the incident that co-driver Edouard Boulanger suffered back injuries and needed to be airlifted for medical treatment, forcing the crew to abandon the stage.
Audi received a second blow shortly afterwards when Sainz suffered an accident of his own at the same point of the stage, where a steep gradient change caused one of the tyres to be ripped off.also losing time with suspected issues, Al-Attiyah has opened up a staggering 1hr06m lead in the overall standings., who ended the stage third-quickest with a time that was 3m22s down on the Qatari driver’s benchmark.
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