Carlos Sainz and Dani Oliveras (Ford) suffered problems in the third stage of the Desaf\u00edo Ruta 40. A broken steering belt forced them to complete the route outside the special stage and abandon the race. <\/p>\n
Carlos Sainz: “Today a power steering belt thing broke, we couldn’t go on, as there were more than 400 kilometers left. It’s a pity, as everything was going quite well. Tomorrow we will continue to work with Dani and that the trip has not been in vain”. <\/em><\/p>\n Tomorrow’s stage: The fourth day is characterized by constant changes of pace as it passes through the imposing landscapes of northern Mendoza. Just at the beginning of the journey, the route climbs to over 3000 meters above sea level, in a typical rally section, with winding roads, switchbacks and deep cliffs. <\/p>\n The mountainous roads turn into dry rivers and the track escapes from the trail on several occasions, so you will have to take into account each change of course to avoid getting lost along the way and validate all the waypoints.<\/p>\n Towards the end, the race enters a dry river with a lot of trials that will demand the maximum from both the physical condition of the riders and the resistance of the machines. The last kilometers will be again on the typical guadales of San Juan, fast and complicated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Sainz and Dani Oliveras (Ford) suffered problems in the third stage of the Desaf\u00edo Ruta 40. A broken steering belt forced them to complete the route outside the special stage and abandon the race. Carlos Sainz: “Today a power steering belt thing broke, we couldn’t go on, as there were more than 400 kilometers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-en","category-2026-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlos-sainz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>San Rafael – San Juan
\nSpecial: 324 Km
\nLink: 310 Km<\/p>\n