• Dakar. Carlos Sainz's extreme set-up: "Don't think about age, think about winning"

Carlos Sainz

could not keep up the pace in the second stage of the Dakar Rally and has yielded the lead in the general car to Frenchman

Stéphane Peterhansel

.

After the spectacular comeback that gave him victory on Sunday, the Madrid native had a power problem that made him finish third and lose 9 minutes and 17 seconds in the goal compared to the winner of the day, the Qatari

Nasser Al-Attiyah

, his main rival for the triumph.

After the second stage, 457 kilometers of special and 228 of connection between Bisha and Wadi Ad-Dawasir, the Madrilenian fell to second place in the general classification, with a deficit of 6 minutes and 37 seconds against Peterhansel.

The Frenchman finished second in a long dune stage, in which the Qatari prince imposed his skill and his piloting.

The Qatari, third overall, at 9:14, will try to reduce differences again with the Mini of Peterhansel and Sainz in the third stage, which this Tuesday will be held in the Wadi Ad-Dawasir desert, with 227 kilometers of link and 403 special, which will combine technique and speed.

"Today I had to give it my all"

Meanwhile, on motorcycles,

Joan Barreda

won the stage and is placed in front of the general.

"After yesterday's hard day, where we lost a lot of time with the problems we had with the GPS, especially in the first part of the stage, today I had to go out and give it my all," said the Spanish pilot.

Barreda explained that he knew that the terrain "was dangerous", but he was able to keep "calm in the most complicated situations and, in the end, a very good stage came out".

The man from Castellón leads the motorcycle classification with a 6-minute and 23-second cushion over the last champion, American Ricky Brabec (Honda).

Both are waiting for the organization to pronounce on the problem they had in the first stage, due to a mismatch between the GPS and the road book that made them lose 15 minutes.

Barreda claimed compensation for the lost time.

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