KAMAZ-master Team took first and second positions in the truck category. The crew Eduard Nikolaev-Evgeny Yakovlev-Vladimir Rybakov became first and the crew Dmitry Sotnikov-Ruslan Akhmadeev-Igor Leonov took the second position. Gerard De Rooy (IVECO) conquered the third position in this uneasy battle.
The way of KAMAZ-master to the top of the general standings was not simple. There was only a few-minute gap between rivals in the top-three after almost 7000 km. The race results were pretty much determined on its last stages. As trucks and pilots had almost the same level of preparation, the main factor became navigation skills. And Russian specialists were successful in it. On the 10th stage good navigation skills of the co-pilots Evgeny Yakovlev and Dmitry Sotnikov helped to increase the gap from the nearest rivals to 19 and 23 minutes respectively.
On the last stages our sportsmen could keep this lead. KAMAZ-master team became a 14-time winner on Dakar.
DAKAR-2017. GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE TRUCK CATEGORY.
|
Pos. |
N° |
Nom |
Temps |
écart |
|
1 |
27:58:24 |
- |
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|
2 |
28:17:22 |
00:18:58 |
||
|
3 |
28:39:43 |
00:41:19 |
||
|
4 |
28:58:28 |
01:00:04 |
||
|
5 |
30:25:14 |
02:26:50 |
||
|
6 |
30:33:21 |
02:34:57 |
||
|
7 |
31:05:20 |
03:06:56 |
||
|
8 |
31:17:00 |
03:18:36 |
||
|
9 |
31:43:20 |
03:44:56 |
||
|
10 |
31:53:04 |
03:54:40 |
||
|
11 |
32:53:47 |
04:55:23 |
||
|
12 |
33:07:24 |
05:09:00 |
||
|
13 |
33:08:45 |
05:10:21 |
||
|
14 |
34:11:32 |
06:13:08 |
||
|
15 |
34:38:43 |
06:40:19 |
||
|
16 |
34:56:27 |
06:58:03 |
||
|
17 |
36:18:12 |
08:19:48 |
||
|
18 |
37:05:15 |
09:06:51 |
||
|
19 |
37:40:55 |
09:42:31 |
||
|
20 |
39:45:37 |
11:47:13 |
