OREANDA-NEWS. February 29, 2008. The KAMAZ-Master team refused to participate in the new rally-raid Central Europe Rally which will be held from 20th to 26th April on the territory of Hungary and Rumania.

According to the organizers’ concept, the marathon should compensate for the cancelled Dakar. But KAMAZ-Master preferred the Russian championship which will take place in Volgograd at the same time to the East European race.

– We had to make a difficult choice, – Semyon Yakubov, the leader of the KAMAZ team comments upon their decision. – But we ought to support the developing Russian championship. Last year we planned to participate in the Russian race and came to agreement with our partners about it, and this decision won’t be reconsidered.