team driverMaster KAMAZ » Edward Nikolaev said his crew made a navigational error on stage six of the Silk Way Rally Marathon.
Nikolaev’s crew, operating in the truck category, on the stage with a 485 km long special stage, posted a time of 5 hours 17 minutes 46 seconds. After five stages, Nikolaev took first place in the general classification.
– Today there was more concentration, because we were driving at maximum speed in Kalmykia. It is necessary to be careful with cuttings – ditches and pits suddenly appear. If you continue on the road, there will be no results. You have to think about how to go where others can’t. And that’s always a risk.
There was a hard floor, it’s unusual. In Astrakhan and Grozny off-road, shaking, but the ground is soft, then there are hard knocks, a load on the body. An interesting site was on the dam – it’s about 15 km away. It’s very narrow for trucks, and the slightest hand movement could lead to a ramp in the river. It looks like you won’t go slow and you won’t go fast either. I had to catch up with the car all the time. We lost a bit of navigation – went off to the side a bit, took about three minutes.
Thanks to the organizer – an excellent marathon section, what you need, – Nikolaev told reporters.
Source : MatchTV
