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Price frustrated by costly navigation errors

Defending Dakar champion Toby Price has rued the navigation troubles that cost him a big chunk of time during the 2017 race's third stage. KTM rider Price had headed the field by three minutes prior to Wednesday's Tucuman – Jujuy test, which shook up the order and dropped the Aussie to 16 minutes of new leader Joan Barreda (Honda). And the vast majority of that deficit was built in the opening kilometres of the timed stage, where Price was among several riders to lose their bearings. “We knew it was going to be a hard one today and, yeah, we just didn't quite get through the first part of it,” said Price. “That was where it was really tricky. “The traces that were there, the...
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