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00:02 Dakar 89 going through the Teneri Desert.
00:07 (engines roaring)
00:10 I remember taking off with Stéphane Piterancel
00:17 across the Teneri Desert on a stage
00:21 and there was a long straight.
00:27 And there was an angle to make,
00:30 to find the good track and go down south.
00:34 That year we didn't really have GPS systems.
00:36 It was all done by map.
00:38 So I remember that both of us made the choice
00:42 to stay on the right rather than the left,
00:45 not to get it wrong.
00:46 But we were opening the way without any tracks in the sand.
00:52 We had no signs.
00:53 (speaking in foreign language)
00:55 (dramatic music)
00:57 At a certain point, Stéphane broke his bike.
01:06 He broke the shock absorber.
01:07 He stopped and I went off on my own.
01:12 Still by staying more on the left than on the right,
01:16 I managed to find a good track.
01:18 I reached the finish and they hadn't even set the finish line
01:23 (speaking in foreign language)
01:25 I made it too early.
01:27 The second rider showed up an hour later.
01:29 All the others went further north.
01:35 They had seen tracks and went that way.
01:38 I did everything without tracks, just using my compass.
01:41 And so I won.
01:44 I won with an hour's lead over the second,
01:46 which was incredible.
01:47 (dramatic music)
01:51 (engine revving)
01:53 So I was in the lead with a huge advantage,
02:00 but eventually I lost it as we reached the rest day
02:03 in Agadez.
02:04 And at the finish, I never managed to catch Gilles Lally,
02:08 who finished first.
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02:12 (speaking in foreign language)
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