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Dmitry Sotnikov becomes a three-time winner of the Silk Way Rally

06.07.2021

Contestants will remember this edition of the Silk Way Rally for long. The race turned out unusual in every sense: start in Siberia, the battle continuation in Altai, two stages at the border of Russia and Mongolia and return to Siberian forests in order to define winners; thereat the distance significantly shortened due to Mongolian stages cancellation and the total length of five special sections was 650 kilometers.

The final special section of the Silk Way Rally repeated the track of the second racing day. The advantage of Dmitry Sotnikov over the Belarusian Siarhei Viazovich in 6 minutes allowed the Russian crew not to risk at the key point of the race and keep a comfortable speed for himself.

The new truck of K5 family with index КАМАZ-435091 is the first on the Silk Way Rally and Sotnikov added one more trophy to his victory on the Dakar in January this year. For Dmitry this success became the third in his career, for his co-driver – the second and for his mechanic – the third. Also in Top 3 appeared Anton Shibalov.

Dmitry Sotnikov, driver of crew No 501: “We managed to justify efforts of our team. During several months everyone worked very hard day and night. Therefore, our prize is for all our team, for all fans, for everyone who helped to build a truck. The new racing truck of K5 generation is a leap forward for our team. I want to applause to all our team. There were no technical issues during the race”.

Truck Category. Results of the 5th Stage. Top 10

Pos.

Name

Make

Time

Gap

1

502

Siarhei VIAZOVICH

MAZ

01:28:14

00:00:00

2

500

Anton SHIBALOV

KAMAZ

01:28:34

00:00:20

3

501

Dmitry SOTNIKOV

KAMAZ

01:29:29

00:01:15

4

504

Eduard NIKOLAEV

KAMAZ

01:31:35

00:03:21

5

506

Aliaksey VISHEUSKI

MAZ

01:33:41

00:05:27

6

511

Vitaliy MURYLEV

MAZ

01:34:03

00:05:49

7

505

Airat MARDEEV

KAMAZ

01:34:44

00:06:30

8

503

Martin VAN DEN BRINK

RENAULT

01:35:26

00:07:12

9

507

Andrey KARGINOV

KAMAZ

01:35:38

00:07:24

10

508

Sergey KUPRIYANOV

KAMAZ

01:39:55

00:11:41

11

513

Bogdan KARIMOV

KAMAZ

01:50:22

00:22:08

 

Truck Category. General Classification after the 5th Stage. Top 10

Pos.

Name

Make

Time

Gap

1

501

Dmitry SOTNIKOV

KAMAZ

06:59:53

00:00:00

2

502

Siarhei VIAZOVICH

MAZ

07:04:29

00:04:36

3

500

Anton SHIBALOV

KAMAZ

07:05:30

00:05:37

4

504

Eduard NIKOLAEV

KAMAZ

07:17:35

00:17:42

5

505

Airat MARDEEV

KAMAZ

07:28:19

00:28:26

6

503

Martin VAN DEN BRINK

RENAULT

07:43:07

00:43:14

6

508

Sergey KUPRIYANOV

KAMAZ

07:46:34

00:46:41

8

506

Aliaksey VISHEUSKI

MAZ

07:50:49

00:50:56

9

507

Andrey KARGINOV

KAMAZ

08:01:44

01:01:51

10

511

Vitaliy MURYLEV

MAZ

08:39:13

01:39:20

11

513

Bogdan KARIMOV

KAMAZ

09:03:56

02:04:03