Vladimir Chagin took his 62 career stage win in his Kamaz, beating Spain’s Pep Vila by 10m53. Chagin’s nearest challenger in the general standings, teammate and compatriot Firdaus Kabirov was third on the stage, 13m23 behind Chagin. Chagin now has an overall lead of 30m31 over Kabirov, with the third Kamaz of Eduard Nikolaev over two hours further back.
Two days before the end of the Dakar-2011 rally in Argentina, Russian KAMAZ team is dominating. The crews led by Vladimir Chagin, Firdaus Kibarov, Eduard Nikolayev and Ilgizar Mardeyev have left allmost all their rivals behind.
The Russian KAMAZ-Master team is a nine-time winner of the Dakar rally and won the rally in 2009 and 2010.
Stage results:
Trucks:
1 Vladimir Chagin (Kamaz) in 5:12m02
2 Pep Vila (Iveco) +0:11m04
3 Firdaus Kabirov (Kamaz) +0:13m04
4 Eduard Nikolaev (Kamaz) +0:14m37
5 Hugo Duisters (Iveco) +0:17m30
Overall standings:
1 Vladimir Chagin (Kamaz) in 44:08m40
2 Firdaus Kabirov (Kamaz) +0:30m31
3 Eduard Nikolaev (Kamaz) +2:58m43
4 Ilgizar Mardeev (Kamaz) +5:34m06
5 Franz Echter (MAN) +5:38m07