The head racing team “KAMAZ-master” Vladimir Chagin commented on performance of Russian athletes at the rally-marathon “Dakar-2019”, where Eduard Nikolaev celebrated the victory in the trucks, and the crew of Dmitry Sotnikov showed the second result.
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“Literally snatched from the hands of the prizes of the “Dakar” this year. Everything was against it: and the track, and the attitude of the organizers, and the competition, which was this time particularly serious. Less than 30% of the participants in the trucks reached the finish line — this has not happened for a very long time. I’m happy that we brought victory to the Russian sports and the domestic auto industry” — quoted by TASS Chagin.
According to the head of “KAMAZ-master”, culminating in the marathon gave the participants a lot of unpleasant surprises.
“This time there was a huge number of events that had not met before. Unprecedented difficult route, difficult a lot of the shifting sand, the temperature reached 45 °C, overheated engines. In fact, the race was occasionally reduced to that who less stuck, he will come”, — he added.
Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated the team “KAMAZ-master” with a victory at the “Dakar-2019”.