Crew in composition Vladimir Vasiliev and Oleg Uperenko from the VRT team became the winner of the first stage of the Silk Way rally-raid in the SUV category (T1).
Vasiliev’s time is 1 hour 32 minutes 39 seconds. The second was the crew Andrei Rudsky and Dmitry Karpov (NG-Energo, lag – 6 minutes 6 seconds), completed the top three Alexander Rousanov with co-driver Artem Terentyev (GAZ RAID SPORT, +8.46).
Dmitry Voronov (LADA Sport ROSNEFT Raid, 1:48.39) won the T2 category, Anton Melnikov in Toyota (+3.09) took second place, Andrey Sushentsov (S&A Racing, +3.36) took third place. In the ATV category (T3), Snag Racing’s Sergey Karyakin (1:41.32), Anastasia Nifontova (G‑Drive, +1.09) came second, Can-Am’s Alexey Cherkesov (+1.40) came third.
In the motorcycle category, Evgeniy Tikhonov won at KTM (2:05.13), Ilya Shcheglov (Husqwarna, +5.36) showed the second result, Nail Khubbatulin at KTM (+7.01) became the third.
The distance of the special stage of the first stage along the Kazan-Ufa road is 142 kilometers. The Silk Way Rally will run until July 15.
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Source : MatchTV
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