Baja España Aragón 2023 - Highlights - video Dailymotion

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Team Audi Sport contested the Baja España Aragón around Teruel in eastern Spain for the first time. The competition, in which Audi competed outside the classification, together with a previous test marked the start of the squad’s six-month preparation for the 2024 Dakar Rally. While Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz finished in the Audi RS Q e-tron, Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist retired after a water crossing caused damage to the power steering pump. In the case of Stéphane Peterhansel/Edouard Boulanger, a faulty sensor with consequences for the electric drive ended the race prematurely.

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Well, after one week of intense testing

00:12 in Zaragoza area with over 1,500 kilometers driven,

00:16 now it's getting the team back into the race mode.

00:18 And this is why we compete here in a two days Baja

00:21 out of the competition, preparing all the processes,

00:24 all the little details that have to fit together

00:26 for the Dakar Rally in 2024.

00:28 (upbeat music)

00:31 I don't have many opportunities to compete in Spain,

00:42 you know, in the last year.

00:43 So every opportunity I have, I really enjoy.

00:46 So it's important to be in the car, to do kilometers,

00:50 to sit with the co-driver.

00:51 And the challenge will be, you know,

00:53 to drive those cars much more narrow,

00:55 much more smaller roads than what we are used to

00:58 doing in the Dakar.

00:59 (upbeat music)

01:01 - The track is really interesting.

01:21 You know, it's really technical.

01:24 We can slide.

01:26 We take a pleasure to drive.

01:28 - And then finish the stage with no punctures,

01:30 no technical issues.

01:31 So we can be quite happy.

01:33 (upbeat music)

01:36 (car engine roaring)

01:39 - Since Dakar, the Baja Aragon was the first test

02:00 on the race conditions.

02:01 Unfortunately, two cars couldn't finish the race

02:04 with Matthias and Stefan.

02:06 Carlos did an impressive performance here.

02:08 - The main thing to come to compete is to learn

02:12 and has been productive in that sense.

02:15 (upbeat music)

02:17 - We learned a hell of a lot in the last two days.

02:21 The next step we have to go back now,

02:24 just analyze what has been happened on the two cars

02:27 which were not finishing.

02:28 And then the next goal is obviously go to Morocco.

02:32 (upbeat music)

02:35 (upbeat music)

02:37 (thudding)

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