Sports team "KAMAZ-master" took the gold and silver of "Dakar-2019"!

Just in Lima finished 41st on account of the rally-marathon "Dakar"

Racing truck KAMAZ-43509 T4 category crew №500 Eduard Nikolaev – Evgeny Yakovlev and Vladimir Rybakov won in the trucks category (category T4) of the rally-marathon "Dakar-2019". Particularly pleased that one more Russian crew No. 514 Dmitry Sotnikov Dmitry Nikitin and Ilnur Mustafina won silver in a difficult marathon race, just finishing in the Peruvian capital Lima.

 the Last step of the podium went to the crew number 503 of the Dutchman Gerard De Rooy on Iveco, but only thanks to shedu crews No. 518 Andrey Karginov and No. 502 of Ayrat Mardeev, who, though, and fought selflessly, but one was analiziroval because of the impact on the viewer, and the other came down the engine.
Last fight he most difficult and the final 10 stage Pisco-Lima was no exception – the crew is already exhausted mnogokilometrovoy track had to overcome to finish the 112 kilometers of the special stage. The right to a mistake was not, because the higher position in the table the General classification went to the athletes and the team at a very high price. So that no accidental situation ought not to deprive the parties of their position in the race and to hinder the successfully to finish. The result of Nikolaev arrived to finish sixth, behind the stage leader for a few minutes, but managed to keep the lead in the overall standings, as Dmitry Sotnikov finished third today and second in the overall standings.

The forty-first "Dakar" thanks to the sophistication of the organizers was one of the most difficult in the history, despite the fact that passed on within a single country, Peru. But, 3-thousand kilometer route was full of giant dunes and roads, confirming their higher complexity. The percentage of cancellations of participants in all categories were among the highest in the entire history of the "Dakar".
So, at the start of "Dakar-2019" published 334 sports crew from 61 countries, including 41 sport truck.

In the category of trucks (T4) for the title of winner of "Dakar" this year, in addition to sports team "KAMAZ-master" claimed such prominent competitors (brands) as IVECO, TATRA, RENAULT, SCANIA, LIAZ, MAZ, etc. To fight for the podium "Dakar" in offset of T4 to the conversation I had less than a dozen of the top crews.
After the finish of the rally-marathon "Dakar-2019," the head of the team "KAMAZ-master" Vladimir Chagin said: "for Two weeks the hardest of the race in Peru was successfully completed. Dakar-2019 will be remembered for its extreme difficulty. All this time we felt a huge responsibility to the Russian fans, team partners. Tough competition kept everyone in suspense until the last day of the race. It was important for us to prove the superiority of Russian technology and our motor racing school. Especially pleased that we managed to win this victory in the year of pyatidesyatiletiyu of the plant "KAMAZ".
"The race was at the limit of the capabilities of people and technology. The second part of the rally we had two crews. In fact after a rest day, the race began with a clean slate. Always felt the pressure of the opponents. Especially glad of the fact that the failed machine. This brand new generation of sports trucks of our team established in accordance with the new regulations of the race. In the past year into its development, building and debugging the whole team spent a lot of effort. I am happy that we managed to please all Russians. This is our common victory!", – said the pilot of crew No. 500 Eduard Nikolaev: "a great happiness that I can finally exhale. The finish line and victory! The race was pretty dramatic. The crews of "KAMAZ-master" from the beginning, set the pace. It was very important to "drop off" the result to the finish in Lima. The pressure of the opponents were very powerful. Unpredictable and severe in the passage of the Peruvian dunes any day could make adjustments to the situation in the classification. But team tactics and selfless work of the whole staff team and, of course, fans ' support helped us achieve great team results: gold and silver "Dakar" will go to Russia!".

The current victory was of the team "KAMAZ-master" for the 16th, and Eduard Nikolaev – already the 5th, and the first title he got in 2010 still as a mechanic in the crew of Vladimir Chagin (in the same year he became the winner of the rally-marathon "silk the way – a series Dakar" as a pilot), two previous "Dakar" in 2018 and 2017, he also was not equal.

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