Leader and pilot of a sports team “KAMAZ-master » Eduard Nikolaev said it would not be easy for him to combine two positions at the Silk Way Rally.
This year, the Silk Road Rally will take place across Russia and Mongolia from July 5-15. The start of the race is planned in Tomsk, the finish is in Ulaanbaatar. Nikolaev took over as head of the team at the end of 2023. In this position, he replaced Vladimir Chagin.
— This is the first time that you participate in a race as leader and driver. Is it difficult to combine?
“It won’t be easy, but the team is helping.” The pilots were sympathetic to this. I hope I can cope with this difficult mission. As a driver, I want to drive, but the time will come when I have to leave the driver’s seat. This will probably happen when the younger generation comes to replace us, ”reports the correspondent of , according to Nikolaev’s words.
The KAMAZ-master team will be represented by five crews led by Nikolaev, Dmitry Sotnikov, Andrey Karginov, Bogdan Karimov and Sergey Kupriyanov.
The current winner of the truck category is Belarusian Sergei Vyazovich from the MAZ-SPORTauto team.
The total length of the Silk Way Rally will be 5,257 km, the length of the special stages will be 2,993 km.
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Source : MatchTV
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