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Kamaz-Master team wins first stage of Dakar rally

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Kamaz-Master team wins first stage of Dakar rally


06.01.2020

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The first stage of the Dakar rally marathon ended with the victory of the Russian Kamaz-Master team, TASS reports. With the best time, Anton Shibalov brought his truck to the finish line.

The legendary race started the day before, on January 5, in the city of Jeddah, the first stage was completed in Al-Waikh. Its length exceeded seven hundred and fifty kilometers. Almost half of the distance went in high-speed mode.

It took Shibalov a little more than 3 hours 40 minutes to overpass the special part of the rally. Another Kamaz-Master team headed by Dmitry Sotnikov stopped at the fourth position. Andrey Karginov was the seventh, and Eduard Nikolaev was on the tenth line. Forty-six crews fought for victory in the truck classification.

In the car category, the best result among Russians was shown by Vladimir Vasiliev, who came ninth. 

Russian Sergey Karjakin became fifth in the buggy category, his teammate Alexey Shmotiev came seventh.

For the first time, the Dakar rally marathon takes place in Saudi Arabia, in total, the race participants will have to overcome almost eight thousand kilometers in twelve stages. About three hundred and fifty crews participate in the rally raid. They are divided into five categories: motorcycles, ATVs, cars, buggies and trucks. This start of the Dakar became forty-second.

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