MOSCOW, Jan 4 The crew of Dmitry Sotnikov's KAMAZ-master team won the third stage of the Dakar rally-raid, which takes place on the territory of Saudi Arabia, in the category of trucks. Sotnikov overcame a special stage with a length of 225 km in 2 hours 43 minutes 25 seconds. The second place was taken by the crew of «KAMAZ-master» Andrey Karginov (+1 minute 10 seconds), the third — the representative of the Netherlands Janus van Kasteren at Iveco (+03.08). The crew of «KAMAZ-master» Anton Shibalov became the fourth (+04.22), the crew of Eduard Nikolaev — seventh (+09.38). Sotnikov is in the lead in the truck classification, followed by Nikolaev (+11.45), Karginov (+19.44) and Shibalov (+27.05).
