Not enough? In fact, it's a lot, for two reasons: firstly, it is more than ever before, and secondly, the quality is also from the accounts can not be ignored: here «move» a big «Dakar».
Not just because of the magic of the Black continent and because of nostalgia for the finish at the legendary Pink Lake, in the good old «Dakar» Thierry Sabine times, and then to test the technique in «laboratory» conditions.
It promises to Africa «Dakar» and he immediately has: hot sand, sharp sand dunes, stony straight, sudden jumps, river beds, punched wheel, navigating the intricacies of...
So just that Jean-Louis Schlesser will not sit behind the wheel for the second year in a row — focus on the organization of the race.
Full details of the results on the official website of the race, we will limit ourselves to mention those who have not only reached the finish line (this is already a victory!), But also on the podium.
Thus, the protagonist of the race — the crew from Kazakhstan, has risen to the top spot of the general classification (in the Africa Eco Race rally cars and trucks appear in the same competition). Kazakh Kanat Shagirov and Vitali Evtehov (№201) performed at the Toyota Hilux. They lead on the results in the group T1 (modified and improved off-road).
The second place in the general classification, the French Pascal and Pascal Larroque Thomassen (in «Dakar-2014» were in the top 10 and, of course, too buggy, Optimus Md finalized their six years). Third place also have a buggy (only Proto), and also the French — Matthew Serrador andDidier Hackett (buggy Proto).
Now, by category. About T1 has already been said in the beginning. In T2 (production models of SUVs) victory celebrated Russian crew Alexander Terentyev and Alexey Berkut at Ford Raptor.
The T4 (trucks) — the crew of Anton Shibalova («KAMAZ-master» — the only «factory» team in this rally), who left Sergei Kupriyanov to" gas "KAMAZ in fourth position (the reason for it — sand trap). But the «gas» KAMAZ first among vehicles with hybrid drive, in the sense that it runs on a mixture of natural gas and diesel fuel.
In motorcyclists favorite old — last year's winner of the Africa Eco Race, silver medalist of «Dakar-2010» and the FIM World Champion Rally-Raid 2004 Paul Anders Ullevasiter. Russian Dmitry Gorshkov in fourth place, Anastasia Nifontova — the eleventh (burnt clutch, the evacuation of the track).
Photo: Press-service of the team «KAMAZ-master», africarace and other open sources.
