On 6 July in Irkutsk starts international “Silk Way Rally-2019. Russia-Mongolia-China”. This year on the international race KAMAZ-master Team will be represented by the crews of Andrey Karginov, Anton Shibalov, Airat Mardeev and Sergei Kuprianov. Apart from that Russian-Chinese crew will traditionally perform on the race KAMAZ truck, its composition will be announced later.
During the year KAMAZ-master has a tight work schedule with sponsors and partners. That is why the champion of Dakar Rally 2019 Eduard Nikolaev will go to the international speed festival in British Goodwood, held in the early July. KAMAZ-master annually takes part in it in partnership with Red Bull. The silver winner in the truck category of Dakar-2019 Dmitry Sotnikov will be involved in the new ambitious common video project of KAMAZ-master and Red Bull, it will be filmed in the mountains in Turkey in July.
The team preparation to July start on the Silk Way Rally is already in full swing. It includes implementation and development of new technical decisions, crew training, including testing of new candidates for positions of navigators and mechanics. Furthermore participation in several competitions is planned, the first of which in the new season will become the stage of the Russian Championship “Gold of Kagan”, which will be held in the end of April in Astrakhan.
