The Spanish pilot Laia Sanz has had to abandon the 2025 Dakar Rally after suffering an accident in the first stage, which will not meet his challenge of reaching the race goal for the fifteenth consecutive time.
The KH-7 team driver has been forced to give up continuing in the race after the commissioners of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) have examined your vehicle and determined that the safety arch had been damaged after an untimely rollover that occurred in the final part of the special.
In this way, Laia Sanz will not be able to complete the route from start to finish for the first time in 15 years. Fortunately, both she and her co-pilot, the Italian Maurizio Gerini, emerged unharmed from the accident and were able to reach the end of the stage on their own, after carrying out the pertinent emergency repairs on the same track, although several hours late, reports the equipment.
Laia Sanz suffered an accident with the Century CR6 in the first stage when overturning your vehicle. Although he announced his desire to continue in the race, he will not be able to continue in a race in which he competed for the fifteenth time with the fact that he finished in all editions.
The vehicle overturned at kilometer 330 when it hit a rock and Laia Sanz reported: “We had run out of 3rd gear at kilometer 20. Then, stuck in the dust, All our navigation instruments had stopped working.so we had decided to go super calm to finish the stage.”
“70 kilometers from the end, We have caught a stone that we have not seen because of the dust and we have capsized. I’m very hurt, because we were doing very well, even though things had happened to us today. “I thought this could be a good year,” added the Catalan.
Laia Sanz arrived at her fifteenth Dakar and her fourth on four wheels, with the triple challenge to beat your record of completed editionsimprove the fifteenth overall position achieved in the last edition and fight for victory in the 4×2 category.
Laia Sainz and her co-driver, Maurizio Gerini, attended the event without having competed in any race during the season and without having been able to ride the Century CR-6T.
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