24 crews started on the Archeda Bach in the Volgograd region, and all of them successfully passed the prologue, which showed that the race would be difficult and surprises are possible.
On May 16, Frolovo was sunny, and in the morning a revival reigned on Bivouac. Traditional technical inspections and administrative inspections are what any competition begins for participants. And by hour the main procedures were completed, and the athletes prepared for the ceremony of the grand opening.
At 16:20 there was a solemn start to the competition, and the participants cheerfully rushed off to the passage of a special stages, which was located nearby. The organizers specially left the main spectacular points near the start so that the audience, journalists and photographers could see all the interesting driveways and jumping of cars. A 20 with a small kilometer’s special strap was very twisted and high -speed, but all the athletes successfully got to the finish line.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
Bogdan Karimov, the pilot of the KamAZ-Master team, crossed the finish, the finish. Behind him are two more pilots of the Blue Armada – Dmitry Sotnikov and Almaz Akhmedov. Boris Gadasin, playing on the G-Force Tigris prototype, completed the special strap in fourth position.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
“We drove a prologue: a short but difficult stage with a length of 22 kilometers,” said the navigator of the GAZ team Raid Sport Evgeny Pavlov – the track was three -dimensional, with constant climbs and descents. For safety tomorrow, the cargo test will start in front of the main peloton of the race. This is due to the fact that the “wagons” now drive very quickly and approach the speed of the KAMAZ. So that they do not interfere with large cars, such a decision was made. The consequences of such a start – after trucks, the roads turn into sand ruts. Today we felt it, and tomorrow it will become even more tangible. Our cars are greatly beaten by protection when moving along these ruts. Therefore, it is important not to “get stuck” in them, sometimes you have to specially go aside. In general, tomorrow it will be difficult.
The five leaders closed another crew of Kamaz-master under the piloting of Eduard Nikolaev.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
In the camp of the lungs, the most fast became the crew of Dmitry Cherkesov, who for only 19 seconds ahead of Anastasia Nifonov. And the third in T3 and the closing in the top 10 was Andrey Novikov from the G-FORCE MOTORSPORT team. In the raid-sport, the crew of GAZ Ray sport Alexei Ignatov and Evgenia Pavlov seized leadership, Alexander Semenov and Dmitry Okhotnikov only lost to the Sochants. Both crews entrenched in the 7th and 9th positions of the general tournament offset.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
“Archeda is a unique race,” the pilot Alexander Semenov shared his impressions “compared to Astrakhan, it is more complicated by the fact that the running sands can be up to 20-25 kilometers. The car is always very difficult here. The engine works very intensively, and there is a large load on it. In principle, there is a real race of engines and drives. Archeda is always a heavy race!
The third in the Raid-Sport category came to the finish line Mikhail Mityaev from Lada Sport Raid. In the T2 category, Andrei Syushentsov and Alexander Dzhanov are still in the leaders, but Andrei Gorkov and Leonid Petrov are pushing behind, and temporary breaks after the prologue for the crews are minimal.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
Trucks GAZ Raid Sport confidently got to the finish line, looking at the highway and adapting to the race. Pilots cherish forces on long special stages of the next days. In the evening, a ceremony of choosing starting positions was held at the headquarters of the race. And not one, but two at once: the choice of starting positions was carried out separately for automobile and cargo offset. Given the fact that only 24 crews take part in the race, a few pilots were excluded from the ceremony.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
As a result, the right to open the track went to Yuri Neuman from the Ural Motorsport team. Behind him, the entire cargo offset will rush to the sandy expanses. After the trucks to the start of the second racing day, crews on SUVs and jeeps will be released. And the first in the auto account to the start of the second special fiber (Su-2) will go Boris Gadasin.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
There are two special stages in the racing menu: 105 and 190 kilometers. The Su-2 highway is sandy for a third, and the Su-3 will mainly pass along the steppe roads, although there are a couple of interesting sandboxes. Having passed the prologue, the racers awaited Saturday, when the main struggle began. /m
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