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Loeb relieved to be close to Dakar lead after engine woes

Sebastien Loeb says he is happy to remain well within the fight for the 2017 Dakar Rally lead, despite losing time to an engine issue on Thursday. Loeb's Peugeot 3008DKR developed a problem early on in the Jujuy – Tupiza stage, which led to him stopping twice and losing more than 20 minutes. “I think we did a very good stage, the only problem is that we had an engine problem in the beginning of the stage, we lost nearly half an hour,” Loeb said. “The valve that makes the turbo open or close, and we lost completely the power. We had 20 horsepower, 5 kilometre per hour. Then we did some reset and it was working again - 200m, 500m, 1km and then it stopped again. “We opened the...
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