Russia (bbabo.net), - On the eve of Saudi Arabia, the eighth stage of the legendary rally-raid "Dakar-2022" took place.
Let's say right away that our long-term champions, members of the KAMAZ-Master team, continue to hold leading positions in the category of trucks. On the eve of the Russians occupied the entire podium.
The first most difficult route was the crew of Dmitry Sotnikov, who covered a distance of 395 kilometers in 3 hours 56 minutes 42 seconds. Behind him came the car of Andrey Karginov, who finished 3 minutes 11 seconds later. The third was completed by the team of Eduard Nikolaev (+4.11).
It should be noted that the fourth place remained with the representatives of KAMAZ-Master: it was taken by the crew of Anton Shibalov (+8.58).
In the general classification, Sotnikov continues to hold the first place, the total time of which is 30 hours 2 minutes 36 seconds. The second place was taken by Nikolaev (+11.25), the third - by Shibalov (+40.23).
There is also sad news related to the representatives of our country. Thus, the debutant of the rally-raid in the ATV classification Alexander Maksimov retired and will not be able to continue the fight for the Golden Bedouin.
As well as the buggy of Sergey Karjakin and his navigator Anton Vlasyuk. Earlier, our crew collided head-on with the car of the Italian Marco Carrara.
According to the participants in the incident themselves, the car had a whole protective frame, but severe damage to the front frame and serious injuries to the athletes themselves prevented them from continuing to fight in the sands.
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