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Last Saturday, the participants of the international rally-raid Silk Way 2023 finished on Red Square. This year, all nine stages of the race were run exclusively on the
Ten days of an exhausting race are over, the crews have covered 5228 kilometers and even the faces of the riders who failed to see the checkered flag in the first race are radiating absolute joy. It is understandable, because single-handedly crossing the finish line of such a difficult race is already a victory.
Most of the public’s attention, of course, was on the class of trucks. In the past, for the KAMAZ-Master team, the main event of the season was the Dakar rally, where equipment from Naberezhnye Chelny “torn” competitors to shreds from time to time. However, the Russians did not go to the final raid, as the International Federation had issued a demand to sign a declaration of political neutrality, which team leader Vladimir Chagin flatly refused to do. And in this situation, it seemed to everyone that the KAMAZ workers would concentrate all their efforts on winning the Silk Road. In addition, of the 12 trucks presented in the class, five had a horse on the radiator grille.
Alas, fortune is a fickle lady and the MAZ truck driven by Belarusian Sergey Vyazovich was the first to reach the finish line. Second and third place were taken by Eduard Nikolaev (12 minutes behind the winner) and Andrey Karginov (16 minutes behind) from the KAMAZ-Master team. By the way, the last time KamAZ lost the home championship was back in 2011.
The debutant of the “Silk Road” truck “Ural”, unfortunately, did not become a dark horse: already after the first high-speed section from Kazan-Ufa, the crew of hard men from the Chelyabinsk region lagged behind the leader for 50 minutes, which even in the frame of a multi-day race, where anything can happen is an abyss.
No less interesting battle unfolded in the T3 class (all-terrain vehicles). The crew of race favorites Dmitry Mordkovich and Ivan Bezdenezhnykh, unable to fit into one of the corners of the first special stage, landed hard in a ditch, forcing the equipment to be resuscitated for over an hour. And the competition in buggy racing is such that even a five minute lead over the leader is not always possible to win back, so it immediately became clear that it would be very difficult for the guys to take the top step of the podium to climb.
Another obvious contenders for victory in the “all-terrain” test group – Anastasia Nifontova and Ekaterina Zhdanova – the race also did not go well from the first days. Every now and then the ladies stomped against the wheels on the special stages, losing precious minutes, but continuing to fight for first place with enviable persistence. However, on the fifth high-speed section of their Can-Am Maverick “buggy” the countershaft bearing hit a wedge, the shaft itself cracked and pierced the engine’s crankcase… As they say, the train doesn’t go any farther, make the cars free.
But the crew of Sergey Karyakin and Anton Vlasyuk turned out to be more successful. Yes, they may have raced without twinkle and enthusiasm, but very steadily, eventually not only winning a landslide in their class, but also taking second place in the marathon as a whole.
In addition to the buggy, six ATV teams took part in the Silk Way 2023 rally raid. Anatoly Kuznetsov in the Can-Am Outlander Max proved to be the most agile rider in the Enduro ATV category, finishing the race in 33 hours and nearly 10 minutes. According to Viktor Sokolov, first deputy head of the Silk Road project, the organizers plan to increase the number of participants in the ATV class next year:
– The test group “Enduro ATVs” on the “Silk Road” was presented modestly this time, but the racing battles that unfold in this class are incredibly exciting. After all, here each of the pilots can rely only on himself, he does not have a navigator who will tell you the route or help to repair equipment on the track. Therefore, our plans to take the ATV class to a new level by increasing the number of teams are…
By the way, Russian Mechanics, a domestic manufacturer of ATVs and snowmobiles, announced its intention to show itself in full growth on the Silk Road next year. In recent competitions, she acted as an official partner of the event and provided her RM 650-2 all-terrain vehicle to draw among the audience on the main stage, but already in 2024, the factory sports team will compete for medals. And RM Sport’s odds of winning are quite good.
In May of this year, in the city of Grozny, Russian mechanics-racer Alexei Zverev (at the factory he works as a leading design engineer and, in fact, with his own hands and head creates equipment that pleases not only outdoor enthusiasts with its reliability, but will enable him to take prizes in several competitions in times) achieved a landslide victory in the Alpha Race rally cup of the Silk Way series. And as the head of the race Robert Sanakoev noted at the presentation of the commemorative medal, it is very valuable that a real factory team appeared in the motorcycle standings, able to show decent results and compete with professional racers.
Ten days of an exhausting race are over, the crews have covered 5228 kilometers and even the faces of the riders who failed to see the checkered flag in the first race are radiating absolute joy. It is understandable, because single-handedly crossing the finish line of such a difficult race is already a victory.
Most of the public’s attention, of course, was on the class of trucks. In the past, for the KAMAZ-Master team, the main event of the season was the Dakar rally, where equipment from Naberezhnye Chelny “torn” competitors to shreds from time to time. However, the Russians did not go to the final raid, as the International Federation had issued a demand to sign a declaration of political neutrality, which team leader Vladimir Chagin flatly refused to do. And in this situation, it seemed to everyone that the KAMAZ workers would concentrate all their efforts on winning the Silk Road. In addition, of the 12 trucks presented in the class, five had a horse on the radiator grille.
Alas, fortune is a fickle lady and the MAZ truck driven by Belarusian Sergey Vyazovich was the first to reach the finish line. Second and third place were taken by Eduard Nikolaev (12 minutes behind the winner) and Andrey Karginov (16 minutes behind) from the KAMAZ-Master team. By the way, the last time KamAZ lost the home championship was back in 2011.
The debutant of the “Silk Road” truck “Ural”, unfortunately, did not become a dark horse: already after the first high-speed section from Kazan-Ufa, the crew of hard men from the Chelyabinsk region lagged behind the leader for 50 minutes, which even in the frame of a multi-day race, where anything can happen is an abyss.
No less interesting battle unfolded in the T3 class (all-terrain vehicles). The crew of race favorites Dmitry Mordkovich and Ivan Bezdenezhnykh, unable to fit into one of the corners of the first special stage, landed hard in a ditch, forcing the equipment to be resuscitated for over an hour. And the competition in buggy racing is such that even a five minute lead over the leader is not always possible to win back, so it immediately became clear that it would be very difficult for the guys to take the top step of the podium to climb.
Another obvious contenders for victory in the “all-terrain” test group – Anastasia Nifontova and Ekaterina Zhdanova – the race also did not go well from the first days. Every now and then the ladies stomped against the wheels on the special stages, losing precious minutes, but continuing to fight for first place with enviable persistence. However, on the fifth high-speed section of their Can-Am Maverick “buggy” the countershaft bearing hit a wedge, the shaft itself cracked and pierced the engine’s crankcase… As they say, the train doesn’t go any farther, make the cars free.
But the crew of Sergey Karyakin and Anton Vlasyuk turned out to be more successful. Yes, they may have raced without twinkle and enthusiasm, but very steadily, eventually not only winning a landslide in their class, but also taking second place in the marathon as a whole.
In addition to the buggy, six ATV teams took part in the Silk Way 2023 rally raid. Anatoly Kuznetsov in the Can-Am Outlander Max proved to be the most agile rider in the Enduro ATV category, finishing the race in 33 hours and nearly 10 minutes. According to Viktor Sokolov, first deputy head of the Silk Road project, the organizers plan to increase the number of participants in the ATV class next year:
– The test group “Enduro ATVs” on the “Silk Road” was presented modestly this time, but the racing battles that unfold in this class are incredibly exciting. After all, here each of the pilots can rely only on himself, he does not have a navigator who will tell you the route or help to repair equipment on the track. Therefore, our plans to take the ATV class to a new level by increasing the number of teams are…
By the way, Russian Mechanics, a domestic manufacturer of ATVs and snowmobiles, announced its intention to show itself in full growth on the Silk Road next year. In recent competitions, she acted as an official partner of the event and provided her RM 650-2 all-terrain vehicle to draw among the audience on the main stage, but already in 2024, the factory sports team will compete for medals. And RM Sport’s odds of winning are quite good.
In May of this year, in the city of Grozny, Russian mechanics-racer Alexei Zverev (at the factory he works as a leading design engineer and, in fact, with his own hands and head creates equipment that pleases not only outdoor enthusiasts with its reliability, but will enable him to take prizes in several competitions in times) achieved a landslide victory in the Alpha Race rally cup of the Silk Way series. And as the head of the race Robert Sanakoev noted at the presentation of the commemorative medal, it is very valuable that a real factory team appeared in the motorcycle standings, able to show decent results and compete with professional racers.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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