In almost 35 winters spent surfing the dunes of Africa, South America and Saudi Arabia, Stéphane Peterhansel had never seen this. “ Audi is a big house, notes Mr. Dakar. It's zero freestyle! German rigor is not just a cliché. » “Peter” may have rubbed shoulders with factory teams like Mitsubishi or Peugeot as well as the German team X-Raid with Mini, the Frenchman must deal for the first time in his long career with a team where “messing around” does not really come into play. The gray and black color of its car, and its combinations, underlines the ambitions of Team Audi Sport: work does not have to suffer from the light sides of rally-raid. No criticism of the record holder for Dakar victories (14), but a simple observation. The firm with the rings leaves nothing to chance, as evidenced by its three stage victories last January (two for Carlos Sainz, one for Mattias Ekström). For a discovery, what's more with a
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