MOSCOW, 11 Jan. Russian racer of the KAMAZ-master team Eduard Nikolaev said that his crew brilliantly coped with navigation at the ninth stage of the Dakar rally-raid in Saudi Arabia. On Tuesday Nikolaev won the stage, having covered 287 kilometers in 2 hours 38 minutes 43 seconds. «For us it was a very interesting stage,» he quotes. Nikolaev site «Dakar» — The track was rocky, a lot of dust was raised in the air due to the large number of participants from different classes. Today we had a difficult navigation, but the crew coped brilliantly. We are eight minutes behind, but there are still three days ahead, and we will go faster and faster. We will make every effort. «In the standings of trucks, the pilot» KAMAZ-master «Dmitry Sotnikov is in the lead, Nikolaev is 8 minutes 51 seconds behind him. There are three stages left until the end of the marathon.
