Today the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with the KAMAZ-Master team before sending the vans to the start of the Dakar Rally 2016? reports gursesintour.com.
— We have been preparing for this day all year, we have prepared the team, the equipment. He said that the car's handling is excellent: "it reacts quickly, better than any SUV, a very excellent car."
As for at least the well-known rally "Africa Eco Race", it will start much earlier than that. I think our athletes will be able to please us, - he informed. On December 28, the team will also fly there.
At Dakar 2016, KAMAZ-master will field a crew of 4: Airat Mardeev - Aidar Belyaev - Dmitry Svistunov, Eduard Nikolaev — Evgeny Yakovlev — Vladimir Rybakov, Andrey Karginov — Andrey Mokeev — Igor Leonov, Dmitry Sotnikov — Igor Devyatkin — Ruslan Akhmadeev. The rally, which will take place across Argentina and Bolivia, will start on January 2 in the Argentine city of Buenos Aires. In total, trucks will cover a distance of 9 thousand kilometers, the finish of the race will take place on January 16. Races in this format will start on December 27 and finish on January 10 in the area of the Pink Lake in Dakar (Senegal). Two Naberezhnye Chelny crews will take part in the African rally — piloted by Anton Shibalov and Sergey Kupriyanov.
