Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov meets with KAMAZ-Master team

8 November 2015, Sunday

On November 8, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Nail Magdeev, Director General of PAO “KAMAZ” Sergei Kogogin, Deputy Minister of youth affairs and sport Rustam Garifullin and Head of the team Vladimir Chagin met with KAMAZ-Master team before they went to rally Dakar-2016.

Rustam Minnikhanov was told about the preparation of the team for the rally.

Sergei Kogogin wished the team good luck in races “Africa eco race”, and “Dakar”.

Today the team will head for the starting point. They will be traveling through Russia and Europe for ten days, and then will go to the starting point on a ferry which will take a month.

Four Russian crews will take part in Dakar-2016: pilots Eduard Nikolayev, Airat Mardeev, Andrei Karginov and Dmitry Sotnikov, also mechanics and navigators. The trucks will cover the distance of 9, 000 kilometers and finish the race on January 16.  

The race will be held on the territory of Bolivia and Argentina.

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