Guillaume de Mévius (OT3) allowed Belgium to shine twice on Monday on the roads of Dakar, Saudi Arabia. In addition to the stage victory in the cars of Fabian Lurquin, co-driver of Sébastien Loeb, of Mévius set the fastest time in SSV 3 (light prototypes), earning his first success in the famous rally raid.
After a nightmarish Sunday day, punctuated by a return to the bivouac at 3 am and the loss of 7 hours in the standings, Guillaume de Mévius and his American co-driver Kellon Walch have brilliantly reversed the trend.
“What an amazing feeling“, wrote de Mévius on his Facebook page.”We had a clean stage and Kellon Walch did a perfect job on the navigation, but I still didn’t expect to win a stage. We had the advantage of being able to follow in the footsteps. I am obviously very happy to win my first stage.“
Starting from 39th position, he had to overtake many competitors on Monday. “Fortunately, we were not bothered by the dust thanks to the rain that has fallen in recent days in this part of the country.“
