MOSCOW, 11 Jan. Russian racer of the KAMAZ-master team Andrey Karginov said that the crew lost several minutes during the stage at the Dakar rally-raid in Saudi Arabia due to a wheel change. The ninth stage took place on Tuesday, Karginov took seventh place. By the middle of the special stage, his crew was in the lead, but then lost more than seven minutes in the segment between two control cutoffs. «Today we overtook Dmitry Sotnikov's crew, started second, after overtaking became the first,» Karginov quotes the KAMAZ-master Telegram channel. There were a lot of riverbeds, a rocky road, we drove fast, we understood that we were going at a good pace.At the exit from the dunes, literally the last stone in the dust, the buggy was hooked with a wheel, stopped, changed, but lost about six minutes, naturally, during this time many rivals have overtaken. «In the overall standings, Karginov is fifth, behind the leader by 1 hour 47 minutes 30 seconds. There are three stages left until the end of the rally-raid.
