While its certainly still early days, Australian Andy Caldecott has shown that he has the pace to match it with the leaders with a third place in todays sixth stage of the Paris-Dakar.
In an Interview, Andy said:
"I guess it is a satisfaction to be in the top 5. But I'm disappointed because during 80kms I was in the dust of Cyril Despres. I then had a fuel problem. I knew I hadn't run out of fuel. It was just that the fuel wasn't going through. It happened at 10kms of the finish line and I lost around 30sec. I was very comfortable during the first 200kms. Tomorrow's stage is daunting because of the unknown ! I've never done such a long stage
go andy
GO ANDY!!!
well done Andy
you did it without my money