Today teams and sportsmen are arriving at Monaco, technical and administrative checks are being started. “KAMAZ-master” team and our press-cars have successfully gone through all necessary formalities. Apart from all documents check and hand-out of navigation and satellite tracking tools, organizers pay particular attention to safety issues. Belts and sport seats, desert survival packages are being checked, main aggregators are being sealed. Our KAMAZ trucks were first to pass all the checks and went to the closed park of yacht club in Monaco, where triumphant start is given tomorrow. The crews’ numbers are: #400 Anton Shibalov/Robert Amatych/Almaz Khisamiev and #403 (gas and diesel) Sergey Kuprianov/ Alexander Kuprianov/ Anatoly Tanin. In Robert Amatych’s opinion “it will be a big challenge this year, you cannot deceive yourself by last Africa Race results, all previous achievements are of no importance, every time you have to prove again that you are the best. It will be difficult.”
We met our friends at checks, whom we spent marathon with in 2015: Anton Grigorov (VEBRacing), Yuriy Sazonov and Kanat Shagirov (MobilexRacing). All are expecting to give a decisive ‘battle’ to the group of European racers, performing mainly in rear-wheel drive buggies. Joseph Adua, who went not to Dakar but Africa this year, unloaded his truck next to us and changed Iveco to Mercedes. The total list of allowed participants will be announced tomorrow and we will know our future competitors. Follow the news!
