Leader and driver of the Belarusian team “MAZ-SPORTauto” Sergei Viazovich in an interview with , he admitted to being offended by the Dakar marathon rally organizers’ decision to exclude him from participating in the race.
In 2021, MAZ-SPORTauto crews were not allowed to participate in the Dakar by decision of the race organizers due to EU sanctions against a number of individuals and legal entities in Belarus. Banning measures affected the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ). MAZ-SPORTauto is a factory team.
— Have you managed to get used to the fact that there is only one big departure per year? What is life like without Dakar?
— The long winter period overlaps, there is a slight depression due to the lack of races. But we have missed the Dakar for three years now and the resentments have gone away. But personally, I am not ready to return to the stage, whatever the conditions. For me, it is a humiliation to have to carry out someone’s order.
We spent the whole last year fighting against the master KAMAZ and I had great pleasure. And I looked at the last Dakar, where the second crew (Czech Ales Loprais – approx.) lost two hours to the winner (Czech Martin Macik – approx.), and the third (Dutchman Mitchell van den Brink – approx.) – four, and I realized: nothing, there is nothing interesting in the race, there is no struggle.
In Belarus there is a saying: “Among the sheep there is a good man, among the good men there is a sheep.” And now it works in Dakar. When the teams that dreamed of entering the top 10 are now winners and winners, the question arises: among whom did you win? I have a good proposal: we can’t go to you, so come to the Silk Road, prove that you are the strongest in the world.
– They are afraid of the consequences.
“You must act where there is a struggle between the strongest, and not go there to prove that you are the strongest among the sheep.” So come and defeat KAMAZ and MAZ in Russia, and do not hesitate to consider yourself the strongest riders, ”Vyazovich told .
Source : MatchTV
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