MOSCOW, Sep 16, Vasily Bogdanov.The 2017 Dakar ATV champion, Russian racer Sergey Karyakin, said that it was pointless to sue to lift the sanctions and requirements of the International Automobile Federation (FIA). Earlier, Karyakin said that he was not allowed to participate in the 2023 rally raid without a written statement condemning the special operation in Ukraine. «The document has existed for a long time and over these months has changed its interpretation more than once. The ninth paragraph states that additional restrictions may appear on us. That is, we do not even know what they may be. Submit to the trial is meaningless — in Russia I win, but they don't care about it, but in the west I lose, they do what they want. Plus, it takes a lot of money. We don't have races now, which means sponsors. It's risky to throw the last money on the courts , where the probability of victory is one percent,” Karyakin said at a press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya news agency. “We must abandon the flag, anthem, symbols, any mention that we are from Russia. In theory, we are asked to say that life in the West is better than in Russia. And all this in order to replicate this paper, which allegedly says that there is no support from Russian athletes for the president and the NVO. Even if I sign, another document will appear tomorrow, which will have to be signed. In fact, they are trying to push now in order to force them to sign and sign other papers later,» the 31-year-old racer emphasized. Karyakin noted that he had no complaints against the Dakar organizers. «We communicate with the organizers of the rally-raid, and the FIA is a kind of label The organizers are just fighting for us, negotiating with the FIA. They understand that the Dakar will be much more interesting with the Russians. There are no special questions for them. The whole initiative with the document comes from the FIA. «KAMAZ» won «Dakar» 19 times, this is a kind of colossus that has a lot of weight. We are in contact with them, they are the main instrument of pressure on the FIA,» he concluded.
