MOSCOW, 11 Jan. The crew of the Russian driver of the KAMAZ-master team Eduard Nikolaeva won the ninth stage of the Dakar rally-raid in the category of trucks, which passes through the territory of Saudi Arabia. The Russian traveled the special stage distance of 287 kilometers in 2 hours 38 minutes 43 seconds. The second was the KAMAZ-master crew under the control of Dmitry Sotnikov (2 minutes 34 seconds behind), the third — the Czech Martin Matsik in Iveco (+2.37). The KAMAZ-master pilot Anton Shibalov took fourth place (+3.29), Andrey Karginov — seventh (+9.03). In the overall standings, Sotnikov is in the lead — 32 hours 43 minutes 53 seconds, followed by Nikolaev (+8.51) and Shibalov (+41.18).
