PilotKAMAZ-Master » Andrei Karginov arrived at the bivouac after many hours of repairs on the Silk Way Rally special following engine problems.
Karginov finished his stage already in the dark.
– A good special, lethal, sometimes fast. The heat was unbelievable, we tried to go at a pace. It all started with the fact that the right front wheel was blown off, had to be changed. Then they felt that, most likely, the gearbox failed, because the traction was gone, the car was going very hard. But she was driving, and we decided to keep going. And, apparently, while shifting to rear wheel drive, they broke another axle shaft and the car stopped moving.
It turned out that the front driveshaft broke, punctured the engine oil pan. We eliminated the cause of the leak, but there was no gimbal with us – they began to fix it: they wrapped it with tape, glued it with glue. Moved – “processed” the car, and so on.
We realized that we don’t meet the standard, and we will finish our performance in the cargo classification. But the main thing is that we got there, now we will move on to another category.
Sergei Kupriyanov’s crew was following us, stopped and asked how to help. They took a rag, a funnel, a few other little things from him. We finished the stage with headlights – quite unusual. When you arrive at the springboard, you don’t see what’s behind, you had to stop. They also took care of the car to get to the bivouac,” Karginov told reporters.
The distance of the stage from Astrakhan to Grozny was 589 kilometers, of which 344 were special stages.
The “Silk Way” rally-raid will end in Moscow on July 16.
Source : MatchTV
