Helicopter pilot hallucinated: This was the moment Sainz wanted to go home

Carlos Sainz had to leave Dakar for damage inflicted on your vehicle after a collision 27G The head-on accident he suffered against the dunes on Stage 9 this Tuesday was irreparable.Limits were set by cars, not cars Carlos Despite the pain in his back, he was happy to keep going.Spanish pilot explained what happened when asked by MD when he attended Spanish press at bivouac Harad and said goodbye Dakar.

sports world He wanted to convey the warmth of all the Spanish fans who highlighted the feat of Carlos, who was on a helicopter that was scheduled to be taken to a hospital in Riyadh, wanting to bring his car to the bivouac. But Carlos normalized what happened, pointing out that the whole thing was caused by chance circumstances, assuring “it’s not a feat”…of the hospital. At that moment Carlos asked to go back to the dunes with Audi.

“It’s not a feat. And I say it with all my love and gratitude. The situation stayed the way it was. It hurt me, I told the doctor to wait a bit to see if it goes away.” The truth is that he was very loving and insisted that from his perspective we should go to the hospital. After spending 20 or 30 minutes trying to entertain him , eventually he insisted and I said, “If the doctor says you have to go to the hospital, go.” and had to enter the coordinates of the hospital at the same time,” he said.

“The helicopter landed there and I turned around and said to him: ‘I want to take the car to the service’. And tonight I feel better and less pain… But he doesn’t have much more than that.” “Normally, it would be to bring the car in and try to continue. , when I got here the car was beyond repair.Seriously, I don’t give it any value,” added the Spanish.