The crew of driver Andrey Rudskoy, who competes in the all-terrain vehicle classification, broke down on the track of the third stage of the Silk Way rally-raid and made a technical retirement.
According to a correspondent, the pilot called for an evacuation and flew to the finish line by helicopter. Navigator Andrei Rudnitsky is waiting for a tow truck with a car. The crew members are not experiencing any health issues due to the blackout.
“We stopped at the 268th kilometer, we didn’t reach Big Brother at all,” Rudskoy told reporters. – Total loss of pressure in the engine. More precisely, I can not say. 30 km before the stop, the pressure began to drop. Pressure 0. We will deliver the car for service. I wouldn’t say it was a rainy day, as the cases were different. Rather light grey. The doctor examined me, everything is in order.
There were two pilots in the helicopter (laughs). I watched the race from above, it looks very nice. If it is possible to fix the car, we will fix it. It is possible to take a joker. If we don’t fix it, we’ll go home. We will arrive in Grozny, we will see. I hope we can go there. Such things are certainly not fixed overnight, tomorrow, probably, we will not go for sure. As far as I know, it is not possible to replace the motor. If it’s a block, then that’s it. If the seal or something else can be revived, we’ll fix it.
In the SUV ranking, the best was Vladimir Vasiliev (3 hours 36 minutes 51 seconds).
The Silk Way Rally will run until July 16.
Source : MatchTV
