Nani Roma excited: “It was a miracle. What happened was very brutal. Logically speaking, we should not have arrived.”

Nani Roma he got out of the car. He felt a mixture of adrenaline, relief, excitement, and exhaustion that nearly tripped him. I had a goal. He quickly walked towards the car in front of him. He opened the door and gave Laia Sanz the strongest hug anyone could give. He saved Dakar.

“It was a miracle. What happened was very cruel. Logically, we should not have arrived.” he told MD before the final stage, celebrating his second place overall in the Dakar.

pilot of Forgerol Then he leaned against the side of the car. Laia. I’m exhausted. I try to catch my breath and process what happened. But there were only tears in his eyes. Laia Sainz defended her podium when she met Nani 7 kilometers from the bivouac. Roma arrived just in time to tow him after he ran out of gas. Nani At that moment, he was in a race against time. We needed to arrive by 4:47pm. If you do not want to receive a penalty, please take control when entering the bivouac.

For every minute you are late, you will be given an additional minute penalty. He was just over eight minutes ahead of him and the podium could have been wiped out. Ekström and robeboth locked in a battle for third place. All this is done before the final stage where no major differences are expected. If we lose second place today, we will lose it forever.

Previously, he made a mistake and lost his wheel.

The fuel issue came after more tears had to be shed at the end of the time special. 500 meters from the finish line, I made a mistake and caught a hole. The upper and lower arms of the right front wheel were damaged, and the wheel was left on its side. To cross the final finish line, we had to move forward on three wheels with our tires on the ground. But that left me with a second challenge: fixing the car. Dumas and Prokop helped him. They then had to arrive at the camp on time to avoid being penalized. And then I ran out of gas.

Luckily, Nani got ahead of Laia on the rink just before. Roman quickly opened the Ford door and threw himself out so Sanz could see him. he saw it. They stopped the car and had it towed. And they arrived at the bivouac so quickly that Nani only added a penalty of one minute.

Nani Roma will never forget what happened on January 16, 2026. This was the day I had to acknowledge the existence of miracles. The day before, MD asked the man from Folgelol whether he needed a miracle to close the gap to Dakar leader Nasser Al-Attiyah by 8 minutes and 40 seconds on today’s 12th, penultimate stage of the Dakar.

His answer was powerful: “I don’t believe in miracles.” He believed in his work and believed in continuing to do what he was doing. But one day life proved him wrong.

“I told you so, right? Yeah, it was a miracle. Yeah, there’s something about miracles, I don’t know. Maybe you know more about this, but today… how did we arrive? I mean, all the logic, we didn’t need to arrive, and in the end everything happened and we arrived, so, well, happy, lots of stress, poor Alex (halo, his co-pilot…”). commented.

No wonder. Miracles did exist.

It’s not just because he was able to cross the finish line. I would also like to thank the person who helped me repair his car. Driver Romain Dumas had no plans to go to Dakar in September yet..

Initially, Dumas was not scheduled to be on the start line for this edition, but he eventually managed to obtain an older Ford specification and compete. Fate wanted Dumas to compete under the same brand. But that’s not all. Roman is not usually at the top of the stage, but rather above the top 20. But stage 11, to be exact, was Dumas’ best stage of the Dakar.is one of the best. He did it to see if he could go ahead to help Nani. He had to take a lot of risks to achieve it, but was able to avoid mechanical problems and achieve it. This allowed him to wait for Nani during the 12th Special and follow behind to help Nani in case of trouble. And he did it. can’t believe it. Yes, miracles do exist.

“I think this is one of the stories of Dakar that will always be revealed.”he said before explaining what happened.

This was his accident in front of the finish line, and there was also a petrol problem.

“Actually, in the special we were trying to run right, we got the track right in one place, lost a few minutes, then got a puncture and were already in trouble.In fact, 500 meters to the finish we always have to go through the middle of two banners, so it’s a little bit difficult. So I got a little confused, there was some wind, there was some dust, and I picked my head up a little bit and looked at the track again, and there was a chicane, and I took the bump, ripped the whole lower arm off, tore it all off, got to the three wheels, and I said, “We’re here.” Then Romain Dumas arrived and started dismantling the car, Prokop, Mitch, everyone there worked, assembled the car and arrived, then went (at the link), I could only go on 120, 118, 119 and calculated the time to arrive. Bivouac on time and without penalty) and we arrived safely. What happened was I ran out of gas, slowed down a bit, had very little left, and finally the gas pump alarm started going off. This means they were out of gas and that’s what happened to Laia…I mean, it’s unbelievable. ”

“When I cut it, I stopped, I jumped out[of the car]and I got there at that moment. I mean, it was pretty bad, and I got here. Well, I don’t know how I got there without applause.”

accident, mistake

“That was a mistake. I think it was the only mistake I made in the whole Dakar. It almost cost a lot of money, but hey, that’s part of the game. Sometimes mistakes happen and part of it is competition. Competing means sometimes you take risks and sometimes things like this happen. But here we are.”

What I felt upon arriving

“I don’t know. It’s just an emotional thing. Usually the adrenaline is pumping and I feel really bad. When I get there, I don’t feel good except for finishing the special, having to fix the car, and everything else.”…and he saw Alex pass behind him and hugged him.

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“This kid here… we’ve been suffering today, we’ve been suffering today. What happened today was so brutal, but hey, we lived it, now this race can only end well, nothing else can happen today, but hey, you still have to be happy, I think we were talking about it yesterday, but hey, let’s wait for tomorrow.”

They knew they could miss out on the podium

“Yes, but there are moments when you don’t even think about it, you think about arriving, you think about arriving already, and that’s it. Tomorrow is 130 km, an easy stage in theory. In theory, you have to move forward carefully.”

Alex asked him to stop asking on the link.

“Well, poor Alex…” Nani said.

“I told him, ‘Please give me a break.'” ‘So how much, what, how long?’…’I have to stop, I have to rest, because my brain is already…”’ Alex revealed.

“Because I was there, apart from when you change everything, the alignment…we were driving like this…but hey, we’ve arrived. We’re here, we’re here,” Nani repeated.