Russian team driver “KAMAZ-master” Edward Nikolaev told that on the third leg of the Silk Way rally-raid, the crew lost time due to a wheel change.
— Today the special is faster than yesterday. It was important to drive with full concentration so as not to fly at high speed. In terms of time, we lost because of the replacement of the rear wheel – a puncture. The pumping not supporting, we decided that it was necessary to change not to wait for a break. It took six minutes to replace, another minute was spent fixing the torn heel rubber.
There were narrow high speed lanes, but in some places we had to slow down to zero. On the uneventful navigation, – said Nikolaev “”.
In the truck standings, the best was the crew of the KAMAZ-master team of Dmitry Sotnikov (3 hours 29 minutes 52 seconds), ahead of the crews of KAMAZ-master Andrey Karginov (5 minutes 51 seconds behind) and Nikolaev (+ 7.59).
Source : MatchTV
