Belarusian rider of the MAZ-SPORTauto team Sergei Viazovitch told journalists about the spoiled atmosphere of the third stage of the Silk Way rally-raid.
Vyazovich’s crew became the fifth, trailing the winners, the crew Dmitry Sotnikov (“KAMAZ-master” ), 29 minutes 42 seconds.
– The atmosphere with which we went to the start today was spoiled yesterday. Like in a cartoon about Captain Vrungel: “Whatever you call a ship, it will float.” Remember, there was “Victory”, and became “Trouble”. With such a mood we went to the start and, probably, we drew failure.
Even after winning yesterday’s stage, they imposed a penalty. Allegedly for speeding in zone 30. Today we made sure once again that we were not exceeding the speed limit, but the instruments are very late.
We only had one device, today we hung up two in order to somehow protect ourselves from that. But it’s obvious (and I asked to check yesterday) that if you drop the speed really hard, and I had a moment: I stopped at zero, and the counter still showed 37. Yesterday I recorded 67 km/h. For this we received a penalty of 2 minutes.
Literally right off the bat, we felt redundancy on the rear axle. Slow down the pace a bit. But at the hundredth kilometer, the right rear wheel blew out – the tread was stratified, and we installed new wheels this morning. And a lot was lost on that, because it was very drained. It was difficult to lift it, as they got up unsuccessfully. Then they set off, because the wheel was all torn. In the camera they saw that it was loose, I had to stop and fix the wheel again.
At that time we were overtaken by KAMAZ trucks, Denis Krotov, but then we caught up with him, hanging in the dust for a very long time, the “santinel” (device) also did not work for some time .
Then they kept moving, everything was fine, but then they had the exact same symptoms after the Big Brother dune. We decided not to wait for another wheel to explode. We pulled over, made sure the left wheel was in the same condition, had no tread and was swollen. They changed it and discovered at the same time that now the wheel, which had been attached several times so as not to lose it, was lost. We hope the “broom” will find it. And so, basically, a disc, there is no wheel.
I don’t know what the reason is for us, it’s already happened with Michelin. I’m very afraid that Aleksey Vishnevsky has the same problems, because he also changed tires yesterday, and he was driving right behind Dima Sotnikov, but Dima passed, we changed the wheel twice, and Aleksey was not the. Hope the guys have enough wheels to make it to the finish line because it’s really hot. Somehow, there’s a reason why it’s the rear wheels that overheat. Or because of the brakes, or for some other reason, and just burst. There is only one party, and that is what scares me to go further,” Vyazovich said.
The “Silk Way” rally-raid will end in Moscow on July 16.
Source : MatchTV
