MOSCOW, Jan 9 Italian racer Marco Carrara accused Russian pilot Sergei Karjakin of head-on collision at the seventh stage of the Dakar rally-raid, said Anton Vlasyuk, navigator of the Snag Racing team. Karjakin's ATV was seriously damaged on Sunday as a result of a collision with Carrara's car. It was reported that the Russian would not be able to continue his performance in the Dakar, which passes through the territory of Saudi Arabia. “I want to show that we were driving correctly, because now the pilot of the car that crashed into us wanted to accuse us of driving against course, «Vlasyuk said in a video posted on the Snag Racing page on Instagram.» From my odometer, it can be seen that we literally did not reach this position 50 meters and because of the (sand) heap on the left he (the Italian racer) flew into our forehead . He left because of the piles, from which he was not supposed to leave at all. They got lost, so it was fate that we met near the dunes. » stage «Dakar» on Monday.
