In the words of Sergei Kupriyanov («KAMAZ-master», №403), «day of rest» on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean means that the team will have a day of work — extended service, inspection of all units, scheduled replacement of springs and so on... We activity easier — look back and see what the team came to this «day of rest».
Merit canceled
Technical and administrative checks (under the control of not only machines, but also belts, Sports seats, survival kit in the desert), the issuance of instruments of navigation and satellite tracking...
Everyone is waiting for the final list of participants, is the assessment of competitors is on the eye. Here populous group of riders from the rear-wheel buggy (it's European competitors of Russian athletes). But truck Jo Adua, exchanged Mercedes and Iveco on the«Dakar»in the «Africa Eco Race» (he is not alone).
Robert Amatych («KAMAZ-master», №400) announced that hovers in the air of closed prelaunch Park Yacht Club of Monaco:
370-km stage to the port of Sete, loading onto the ferry, which will go on for two nights and a day. Too much, if lazy, little, if to be read first of the twelve volumes of the works of Rene Mejia, who wrote the book road «Africa Eco Race».
Another of the new — «Repeaters» for the navigation device ERTF. Now, all on one screen: speed reading, the course and direction of the next point.
Wake up and remember
545 km road section and 47 km of the special stage... It is for cars and motorcycles for the first SU canceled altogether, so customs checks were tightened. And yet, you are welcome in Morocco!
He echoed the dunes of Merzouga erg — not only a popular tourist destination, but also a «reserve» scours hard, sharp stones, loose sand.
Crew Anton Shibalova (№400) came first in the category of trucks. Diamond Khisamiev mechanic crew-winner, driving the entire distance with only one thought: «I thought the whole route of one thing: the wheel, the wheel, the wheel! There were a lot of sharp rocks and one of them we still struck the front wheel. Fortunately, it was 3 kilometers from the finish, and we lasted until the end of the pumping on... »
The length of the special stages is increased along with the amount of sand and dunes. Viscous parched riverbed rivers rock stream beds, salt marshes...
The crews of more than five hours of shaking in the cabins at the finish of the third CS — tree, calls home... What news? In the truck class unchanged — leader «KAMAZ-master».
On all the money
Participants look at the start list and shrug already start at 9 o'clock in the morning? Why so late? Responses were waiting on the track. They became the plateau that lies between two rocky slopes. Truck speed is limited to 150 kilometers per hour, and jeeps to race at the rate of «limitless», not to mention the motorcyclist.
n the category of trucks«KAMAZ-master» on the top two lines, but overall not break above 12 series. Jeeps raced «all the money»...
From Morocco, where he spent 5 stages, the race moved to January 4 to Mauritania, where there is still 6 steps, and finally, the final — in Senegal, at the very Pink Lake, which finished the «old» Dakar.
Photo: Press-service of the team «KAMAZ-master», africarace.com.
