MAZ hit the hood on the road

MAZ prepared new racing truck bonnet layout

The head of the team "MAZ-Sportavto" Sergei Vyazovich recently told Belarusian reporters that the rally-RAID "silk road", which will be held 20-27 July on route Elista-Moscow, will present its latest racing truck MAZ-6440RR, and bonnet layout.

Teaser promising racing truck MAZ-6440RR (cabin, really moved to the center of the wheelbase)

Cabin will move backward almost to the middle of the frame. This arrangement kills two birds with one stone: allows you to raise to increase the driving comfort of the crew on the roads (especially in terms of vertical jolts and harshness transmitted to the cabin of the shocks when landing after jumps), and also to relieve the front axle, of course, raising and life. More importantly, radically improves vehicle weight distribution along the axes, and this in turn greatly improves handling, increases stability when driving over bumps. Cabin on promising Kapotnya used long ranged tractor, not standard fluorescent from the truck, so the opportunity to move the navigation a bit ago. Naturally, such a cabin below and fixed relative to the frame, which reduces the overall center of gravity of the entire vehicle.
The frame on the truck is made of welded, and most of the brackets welded directly to the frame, compared to the previous racing model MAZ-5309RR where all the brackets were bolted joints, reducing the weight of the car. Only some elements in order to accelerate the replacement process remain screwed.

Racing truck MAZ-5309RR cab-over-engine became the silver medalist of "Dakar-2018"

Sergei Vyazovich said: "the Rest of the units racing truck remained mostly unchanged under the hood, the American diesel Caterpillar 12.5-liter, specially prepared for racing Czech tuning company Gyrtech. There is no doubt that if, lapping bonnet new MAZ goes well, the next "Dakar-2019" it will be very serious competition chelninsky "Kamazom" in the fight for the title..