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VICTORY IS OURS!

22.07.2017

The sportsmen passed the 14 stage of the Silk Way Rally. On the eve the special section was cancelled by organizers due to heavy rains, but anyway they had to meet the timing and reach the finish of the race. After a two-week challenge with dunes, rains, impassibility, this section was not difficult and the finish podium awaited everyone who decided to take part in the rally-raid.

KAMAZ-master Team celebrates its victory today! Now all top-three positions belong to them. This victory is very important for the team because all main rivals in the trucks applied for the race. Unfortunately, not every of them managed to reach the finish. All three crews of Renault Team had to leave the race. Gerard de Rooy and Martin Kolomy got a 100-hour penalty for leaving SS, but nevertheless they managed to get to the podium.

 The crew of Dmitry Sotnikov took the first position in the overall, fast assistance of Anton Shibalov is the second and the third place goes to Airat Mardeev. The most pleasant is that the first place belongs to the new truck driven by Dmitry.

 Quotations:

Dmitry Sotnikov, pilot of KAMAZ-master Team, crew #303:

“Everything is super. We hoped to fight for the podium, but it turned out much better. Now we can’t believe that our new truck got the first place. It is an excellent result of a great work done by all the team. We worked hard and the result was fair, rewarding. Only coming here we understood how lucky we are that there is no such a heat on the route because we don’t have an air-conditioner and it would have been too much!”

 Sergey Savostin, KAMAZ-master Team leader:

“First of all I want to say that this is the result of the whole team, of the plant, all our partners. We are really grateful to our partners that help us to achieve high results and most of all to the KAMAZ plant. The results on the rally were good, the rivalry was very strong. The fact that our rivals couldn’t keep the pace is because of the efforts of our crews, of our team and all assistance group that prepared the trucks. Of course, there is a bit of luck, but the strongest are lucky. This result is achieved with a really hard work.”