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WRC-weekend of "KAMAZ-master" team

05.08.2015

The participants of «KAMAZ-master» team who visited at the end of the last week Neste Oil Rally Finland - the eighth stage of the World Cup on classical rally of WRC 2015 in the Finnish Jyvaskyla became witnesses of bright struggle and victorious triumph of the Volkswagen Motorsport team.

The trip took place by the invitation of Red Bull, which is a partner of both - "KAMAZ-master" team and Volkswagen Motorsport.

The delegation of "KAMAZ-master" team was accompanied by the famous racer the eight-time champion of Latvia Maris Neykshans and the glorified Russian navigator Sergey Talantsev. They as more skilled experts in WRC discipline helped to make logistics of visit of Rally Finland stages so that KAMAZ members managed to see fast turns and high-speed rises, as well as jump sections of the race. In one of the moments when sportsmen were forging through the dense Finnish wood to the next special stage, they met Ari Vatanen, and Sergey Kupriyanov used opportunity to get a selfie with the well-known flying Finn.

Duel of two Volkswagen crews of Jari-Matti Latvala and Sebastien Ogier had, as always, fundamental nature, but this time differed in special persistence, kept fans in suspense from the first to the last special stage and ended as a result with a victory of the Finnish rider.

Despite the tight schedule of the three days of competition, both pilots communicated with KAMAZ guys at the bivouac of Volkswagen Team, told about the features of this type of races and showed how the maintenance of cars is taking place in the assistance area. Navigators of famous racers, as well as the head of Volkswagen Motorsport Jost Capito also joined conversation. During the communication it became clear that he took part in «Dakar» five times, and in 1985, with his father he won this race in the truck category on the car Mercedes Unimog! It is natural, that Jost Capito and the head of "KAMAZ-master" team Vladimir Chagin had to talk about.