OREANDA-NEWS. November 2, 2007. The crews of the KAMAZ-master team rank first in the trucks event at the rally Desert Challenge-2007.

KAMAZ-4911 Extreme under the steerage of Rustam Minnikhanov, Aydar Belyayev and Ilghizar Mardeyev covered 270 km in the desert of the UAE (from Abu Dhabi to Morib) for 3 hours 37 minutes and 51 seconds. Firdaus Kabirov’s crew spent 4 hours 5 minutes and 2 seconds on it, and Vladimir Chaguin clocked 4 hours 20 minutes and 5 seconds.

Thus, after the prologue and the first stage all three crews of the KAMAZ-master team lead in the trucks event. The best of them is Minnikhanov’s crew – it takes the lead over many automobile prototype of the T1 group and is less than an hour behind the best automobile crew.