“I feel it’s utterly improper, the best way they’ve dealt with it in the intervening time,” Lategan advised DirtFish.
“I hope it’s not official and never how they may preserve it, I’m completely towards the best way they’re doing it. The best way we discovered the waypoint, we discovered it first, is that we went additional again than anyone, we went again to a earlier instruction within the highway ebook, and we adopted the highway ebook and that’s what received us to the purpose.
“Everyone else forked somewhat bit too far left to the improper valley, however we went all the best way again and began to observe it once more and that’s what received us to the waypoint. Everyone else had the identical data as us; for them [ASO] to go and say that they may minimize that bit out is totally unfair.”
Whereas Lategan felt aggrieved, there have been opposing feelings inside the Dacia Sandriders camp as Nasser Al-Attiyah averted a 30-minute time drain to remain within the hunt for a podium end.
Al-Attiyah’s navigator Edouard Boulanger had no sympathy for Lategan’s considerations.
“It’s utterly truthful to cancel the part and so they did it already, as a result of other than this part all the pieces else was right and there’s no debate,” Boulanger stated.
“Beginning fifteenth and arriving forward of 12 different automobiles who have been on the lookout for the exit and ‘oh look the exit is there, simple to search out the waypoint!’ Sorry Henk however that’s f****** improper.
“If [the road book] was right, the organizers wouldn’t have cancelled the part earlier than the top of the stage, earlier than we reached the end line. Which means one thing to me. You’ve got your time earlier than and you’ve got your time after. In case you’re not comfortable, then add extra fuel.”
