Silver fourth stage!
Finally some good news and great joy after the previous two intensive days. The fourth stage brought the crew of 301, second place, conjured stíbrně good mood in the team and also brought satisfaction for the work of all those who, day and night, work hard to debug a new car. Overall, Ales, radio and Serge ten. 306 crew of Jan Tomanek, Thomas Jasper and Michael Honda ended on stage 13-th place overall is twelve. Originally Although the trio would not be presented or publicized, but after numerous questions that fans are finally agrees to the disclosure by publishing their location in our news service.
Ales happily reports: “Today we had the first clean stage. The track was very broken. We drove through the barren landscape. In addition to the salt lakes and herds of wild cattle, it was just a road full of holes and bumps across the desert. The terrain is extremely challenging especially on the spine and head tremors are also unbearable. For tomorrow we’ll try a different suspension settings. Step by step we change the properties of the new car and tune it to the profile of the local SS. Today we are at the stage occupied by a nice silver position, although we started to 39-TI and so we had to overtake dozens of cars and trucks in front of us and we have not stopped for a minute to check the cab. Our fighter ride finally came out. “
July 10, stage 4, Astrakhan-Elista Silver fourth stage!
Finally some good news and great joy after the previous two intensive days. The fourth stage brought the crew of 301, second place, conjured stíbrně good mood in the team and also brought satisfaction for the work of all those who, day and night, work hard to debug a new car. Overall, Ales, radio and Serge ten. 306 crew of Jan Tomanek, Thomas Jasper and Michael Honda ended on stage 13-th place overall is twelve. Originally Although the trio would not be presented or publicized, but after numerous questions that fans are finally agrees to the disclosure by publishing their location in our news service.
Ales happily reports: “Today we had the first clean stage. The track was very broken. We drove through the barren landscape. In addition to the salt lakes and herds of wild cattle, it was just a road full of holes and bumps across the desert. The terrain is extremely challenging especially on the spine and head tremors are also unbearable. For tomorrow we’ll try a different suspension settings. Step by step we change the properties of the new car and tune it to the profile of the local SS. Today we are at the stage occupied by a nice silver position, although we started to 39-TI and so we had to overtake d
SS 4 « On the Silk Route»
There will be a change of direction on stage four. The rally will head west from the shores of the Caspian Sea, the cradle of the Russian, Kazak, Turkmenistan, Iranian and Azerbaijan civilizations towards the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia.
The start of the special stage will be situated in the heart of the Sands of Astrakhan which will feature a lot of off-road kilometres, few reference points and imposing heat on the first 150 km. Then the rally leaves the Astrakhan and heads to the infinite space of another desert, the Kalmykia.
As they pass by the nature reserves, the teams could come across wildlife such as Eurasian antelopes, deer and herds of horses. The track will become fast with numerous direction changes.
Steppes, valleys and hills on the rolling tracks and soon the competitors will head towards a breath taking décor along the shores of a magnificent lake.
Then the rally will head towards Elista (which merits the time to visit), on straight and fast tracks.
Partial Classification of Leg 4 (Astrakhan to Elista)
Classement Partiel de l’étape 4 (Astrakhan à Elista)
(Leg length / Longueur étape 506,47 Km)
Grp/ Cla/ Pénalités Temps total Ecart
Pos N° 10 6 G Pilotes/Drivers Camion/Truck Pos Pos Penalties Total time Diff. leader
1 309 T4/1 2/1 SHIBALOV Anton (RUS) / AMATYCH Robert (RUS) / KHISAMIEV Almaz (… Kamaz 4326 3h41m51s
2 301 T4/2 2/2 LOPRAIS Ales (CZE) / BRUYNKENS Serge (BEL) / PUSTEJOVSKY Radim… Tatra 815/2 3h45m48s + 3m57s
3 303 T4/3 2/3 NIKOLAEV Eduard (RUS) / YAKOVLEV Evgeny (RUS) / RYBAKOV Vladimi… Kamaz 4326 3h53m27s + 11m36s
4 300 T4/4 2/4 MARDEEV Ayrat (RUS) / BELYAEV Aydar (RUS) / MIRNYY Anton (RUS) Kamaz 4326 3h54m04s + 12m13s
5 312 T4/5 2/5 SOTNIKOV Dmitry (RUS) / MIZYUKAEV Viatcheslav (RUS) / AFERIN Andre… Kamaz 4326 4h00m08s + 18m17s
6 315 T4/6 2/6 VASILEVSKI Aleksandr (BLR) / ZAPAROSHCHANKA Anton (BLR) / KAZL… MAZ 5309RR 4h05m57s + 24m06s
7 320 T4/7 2/7 VIAZOVICH Siarhey (BLR) / PALISHCUK Aleksandr (BLR) / VIKHRENKA D… MAZ 5309RR 4h16m36s + 34m45s
8 310 T4/8 2/8 VALTR Jaroslav (CZE) / KALINA Josef (CZE) / FIRST Jakub (CZE) Liaz 111.154 4h22m42s + 40m51s
9 314 T4/9 2/9 KUPRIYANOV Sergey (RUS) / KUPRIYANOV Alexandr (RUS) / TANIN Anat… Kamaz 4911 4h27m45s + 45m54s
10 313 T4/10 2/10 VILDMAN Vlastimil (CZE) / MACIK Martin Jr (CZE) / MRKVA Michal (CZE) Liaz 111.154 4h29m44s + 47m53s
11 322 T4/11 1/1 SZUSTKOWSKI Robert Jan (POL) / KAZBERUK Jaroslaw (POL) / SKROB… Tatra 4h34m26s + 52m35s
12 307 T4/12 2/11 VAN DEN BRINK Maarten (NLD) / VEENVLIET Arjan (NLD) / DE BAAR Pasc… Ginaf X2222 4h36m20s + 54m29s
13 306 T4/13 2/12 TOMANEK Jan (CZE) / HONDA (CZE) / KASPAREK Tomas (CZE) Tatra 315/2 4h44m17s + 1h02m26s
14 311 T4/14 1/2 ARDAVICHUS Artur (KAZ) / STANEK Adam (KAZ) / NIKIZHEV Alexey (KAZ) Tatra T815 4h48m09s + 1h06m18s
15 323 T4/15 1/3 VAN LANKVELD Frans (NLD) / VAN LANKVELD Martjin (NLD) / VAN DEN… DAF CF 4h59m08s + 1h17m17s
16 318 T4/16 1/4 KOOLEN Kees (NLD) / KOETSIER Simon (NLD) / VAN UDEN Gijs (NLD) Ginaf X2223 5h20m32s + 1h38m41s
17 316 T4/17 1/5 1 PIANA Marco (UKR) / GARNIER Nicolas (FRA) Mercedes Unimog 5h26m05s + 1h44m14s
18 317 T4/18 2/13 KOVAKS Miklos (HUN) / ACS Laszlo (HUN) / CZEGLEDI Peter (HUN) Scania Qualisport V8 5h30m31s + 1h48m40s
19 325 T4/19 1/6 HOONDERT Adwin (NLD) / VAN STEE Peter (NLD) / OPT HOF Jacco (NLD) DAF CF 5h50m11s + 2h08m20s
20 319 T4/20 1/7 MEKHTIEV Iakov (RUS) / SHEPILO Andrey (RUS) / GORSHKOV Gennadiy… Man TGS 6h08m10s + 2h26m19s
21 326 T4/21 1/8 2 SHKLYAEV Mikhail (RUS) / DOLGOV Stanislav (RUS) Gaz 33088 6h09m16s + 2h27m25s
22 321 T4/22 1/9 3 KISELEV Sergei (RUS) / IVANOV Alexey (RUS) Man 18.285 7h01m16s + 3h19m25s