Surprise surprise for his fans before this year’s Ales Silk Way Rally. Participants will InstaForex is the general partner of the professional team EUROLAT Veka MAN!
Alex’s surprise move has its origin already in former times, but accelerated after the end of this unlucky Alex’s crew in the Dakar Rally stage in Iquique, when Alex crashed Tatra Jamal at the coupling section and had to withdraw from the second position overall. “With a team Veka MAN we had a very long good relations, even though we were rivals. Even in Dakar we met. When we crashed on the Dakar this year, was one of the first crews that came to help us, Peter ekipa Versluise, team owner EUROLAT Veka MAN. He then began a new chapter in the story of the future. Peter grabbed my hand and said that once we win the Dakar together in one team, “ said a sudden turn Ales.
Earlier Alex’s special Tatra Jamal was completely destroyed in the crash. “With long-term partnership with the Czech insurance company, we could begin work on the next car that will be even better. Before you finish, however, and we expect it to fall, with many improvements, I decided to take part in the Silk Way Rally, which we won last year and where in 2009 we finished third, another technique to identify and test the concept and operation of large foreign professional team. We very much appreciate the offer, while Russia will use the launch to test how recovery progressed injured my back, and also to become comfortable with the new crew, “ adds Alex, who had already tried his car during a recent testing in Turkey.
Alex would have under an agreement for Silk Way Rally crews also use Veka from the team, so the navigator and mechanic. “They are experienced professionals with several Dakar participations, the engineer on the construction of the car worked and he knows it in detail, so they have full confidence , “ adds Alex. The Dutch team EUROLAT Veka MAN Silk Way airs on four specials, Alex still managed apart from team owner Peter Versluisem, as well as special workshops of the company Toni Maurer, Franz Echter driven car, and even the experienced Dutchman Pascal de Baar. All specials team have had a very successful performance at the Dakar and other endurance marathons.
“After initial tests, I must say that I am positively surprised and happy. Cars are very competitive, with a great engine power and torque curve and excellent brakes. Further evidence can I be up in the rally itself, “ adds Alex.
Silk Way Rally will be held from 7 to 15 July 2012 on the route between Moscow and Sochi Olympic Gelendzik far. Again offer eight heavy and long periods, of which the most important will be placed in the desert near the Kalmyk Caspian Sea. The Russian organizers of the competition, which is not included Since this year the Dakar Series, promise to 100 crews in the category of cars and 30 trucks starters, including the big favorite, home Kamaz.
(source: www.loprais.cz,http://www.rely.cz/rely/index.php?obsah=zobraz&id_clanku=12443