00:002007 my biggest upset
00:09in 2006 I had a really fantastic year and it was marked by my first victory and then in 2007
00:19well in the end it came to nothing I was very very close I was focused I was on the right track
00:30I could have clinched a second successive win with two days to go I remember that I had nearly 40
00:39minutes on Cyril de Prey and then the rally turned into a nightmare for the Spaniards the first sign
00:49came three days from the finish he got lost here in the stage in Mali yet his main rivals did too
00:55and Coma held on to the overall lead well there's tricky navigation I made a small mistake up in the
01:04group at the front and today I'm starting further back obviously there'll be some dust but the dust
01:09is everywhere Cyril de Prey in second nearly an hour back yet upon entering Senegal between Caius and
01:17Tambacunda Mark Coma got lost again and panicked I had a strange crash in a place where the navigation
01:31was tough with really dense vegetation
01:47where are we kilometer 130
01:57and where's the track over there you search and you search for explanations but the truth is I saw
02:07that the notes in the road book weren't very precise and that leads you to make mistakes in
02:12management because you've gotten lost and from there you also have the risk of crashing and once
02:18you've found the right track again it's the same thing you'll come with us we're gonna give you a
02:25little IV trip while you recover your senses okay it's not too serious but you can't remember we can't
02:34leave you is the bike okay the bike is okay but you're not we're not here for the bike we're taking care of you okay it's
02:44happened before throughout sporting history many moments etched in everybody's memory I had to go through that
02:50difficult moment and it affected me but it is what it is it's it's not sports in 2007 I was so close to another victory and then I
03:00I came so close to disaster it went south very quickly
03:09but it's nothing serious he's okay yes the Frenchman also at the handlebars of a KTM winning his second Dakar
03:20I didn't want to dwell on it too much I closed the book turn the page moved on to something else
03:30obviously it's not a pleasant memory
