Leader of the “Silk Way” rally-raid Vladimir Chagin told about the results of this year’s race and the difficulties in planning the next course.
– I will breathe a sigh of relief tomorrow, when all the participants arrive in Moscow, the award ceremony will take place. Now I feel great satisfaction and joy for me and my colleagues that we were able to run. Thank you to our partners and sponsors. I look at their banners and remember how we involved them in our project. I’m sure none of them regretted it. Thank you for supporting the sport. It has always been important, and even more so today, to organize competitions of such magnitude and to invite foreign participants. I would like to continue doing this.
The last days are filled with drama. Today Volodya Vasiliev retired, fought for victory in the first kilometers. Before that, Maksimov had retired, Naumov was close to that.
– The race is fast, difficult, tracks with many turns, with navigation, a difficult course. This is motorsport, there is success and leadership, but there are also falls and injuries. I am very happy that there were no serious injuries. I personally communicate with the manager of our medical structure, I know everyone’s injuries, I keep them under control, all will allow the injured to return to the race tracks with the right treatment.
“Next year will probably be even more difficult and interesting.
— I can’t say where we will organize the race next year. We would like to take a marker in our hand and plot a route we like based on new regions and new countries. But today, both the covid and the political situation do not allow us to calmly fantasize and make a decision. There are many conventions, but I am sure that next year we will be able to offer our participants an interesting new course.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate it?
– It is better to ask this question to the participants. We did this race for them.
The 2022 Silk Way International Rally started in Astrakhan on July 7 and ends in Moscow on Saturday.
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