“It all started with the fact that the right front wheel was blown off, it had to be changed.
It ended up that the front driveshaft shattered and pierced the engine oil pan.
We moved, treated the car, and so on.
We realized that we do not fit into the standard and we will finish our performance in the cargo standings.
But the main thing is that we got there, now we will go to another category, ”RIA Novosti quotes Karginov.
The Silk Way Rally Marathon runs from 6 to 16 July with a start in Astrakhan and a finish in Moscow.
The total distance is 4474 km.
On July 9, the KamAZ-master crews took the entire podium at the third stage of the Silk Road.
Sotnikov covered 387.02 km in 3 hours 29 minutes 52 seconds.
The second and third places were taken by his teammates Andrey Karginov (+05:51) and Eduard Nikolaev (+07:59).
Earlier, the KamAZ-master crew led by Dmitry Sotnikov won the fourth stage of the Silk Way rally-raid in the trucks standings.