MOSCOW, Jan 14 KAMAZ-master driver Dmitry Sotnikov said, that he fought with his teammate Eduard Nikolaev until the very finish line at the 2022 Dakar rally-raid, which takes place in Saudi Arabia. On Friday, Sotnikov became the winner of the Dakar in the truck category for the second time in a row. His compatriot Nikolaev, who finished second, lost 9 minutes 58 seconds to him. «The race was tense. It is completely different from the previous two in Saudi Arabia. It started immediately after the first prologue, without warming up, it started with the hardest special stages in the sand. We dominated the whole team «, but the rivalry that Eduard Nikolaev imposed on us was tight. It was tense to the end. It was impossible to relax until the very finish. Today, we also waited until the last, even these 500 meters, we had to wait for the finish,» Sotnikov said in an interview published in Telegram-channel «KAMAZ-master». «We have a new car, the whole team worked hard last year and this year. Thanks to everyone who worried and cheered for us, this victory is our common result. We won together with you. Russia – champion,” Sotnikov added.