How did you prepare during the year for this 2018 Dakar ?
As always very intensive. Our preparation program includes as preparation of trucks, so physical preparation, participation in various competitions. In the end of November we spent a quite efficient week in Morocco. I won’t say what it is, something extraordinary, but after hard weeks of work in the shop, connected with preparation of trucks, such travels to desert are useful enough to recover skills of pilotage.
What is your objective ?
Role of our crew during the race is to help and backup other crews of the team. Our truck will be a bit heavier than other race KAMAZ trucks. For us it is important to go in a stable way, without making mistakes. I really hope that we will not have to stand on the track as for our own mistakes so for other KAMAZ-master crews.
This is the 4Oth édition, what does it mean for you ?
It is always interesting to take part in some “anniversary” thing. There is foretaste of something new, bright and memorable. Due to the description of the route organizers of the 40th Dakar tried to make it exactly like this. In my point of view, there are two weeks of the most interesting adventure, new landscapes and uncompromising struggle.
