RUST magazine: RUST 2018 Dakar Preview

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SS: It was incredible, I knew I was feeling
the pressure and I was trying to manage
it the best I could and when people kept
saying ‘so are you thinking about the win?’
as early as on day ten or 11, I was telling
them ‘no, no I’m not thinking about it at
all’. But come on, of course you are! It’s
something you’ve been working toward
for the past seven years, something you
gone through a bunch of injuries for,
something you’ve worked all year towards,
all the sacrifices – of course that thought
is there. But you try to tell people you’re
not thinking about it to try and convince
yourself. I think you just manage it the
best way you can, but when I crossed the
finish line it was just incredible, it felt really
amazing. So much work, so many ups and
downs finally paying off, it was a relief.
RUST: DOES THE PRESSURE BUILD
THE CLOSER YOU GET TO THE
END?
SS: It never lets off, at least. I guess if say
Marc Marquez is going into the last round
of MotoGP and all he has to do is finish in
the top-10 then he can go into that round
knowing he’s done, of course its never done
until its done, but he can just maintain and
take it easy. But the way the navigation
was in the 2017 Dakar you could make a
mistake so easily so you could lose your
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