From the very morning of Thursday, April 17 at the headquarters, the race was lively and noisy: the participants underwent administrative inspections and technical inspections. As a result, 35 crews of automobile tests of the Russian Rally-Raidam championship, 31 participant in the Cross-Cantry of Rally and 13 cars participating in the Governor Cup were allowed to the start. So the prologue began.
At 15 o’clock on the descent from the Prechistensky bell tower of the Astrakhan Kremlin, a grand opening was held with a greeting from the city administration. After that, almost 80 units of equipment passed into the starting arch. Participants from the Kremlin rushed towards the first high -speed specialized expert – a prologue, the length of which was only 19 kilometers, but which! Wining high -speed paths with an abundance of pits and tubercles, with spectacular taps and very short bindings of points. The navigator had to work incredibly quickly in order to manage to get into the track, and the pilot to react and guess the turning path in time, avoiding the insidious areas, which strove to mislead the athletes.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
The crew of the Kamaz-Master team Dmitry Sotnikov drove the crew of the Kamaz-Master team faster. The triumph of Dakara-2022 needed 11 minutes 27 seconds. For three seconds, two more crews of the “Blue Armada” – Bogdan Karimov and Eduard Nikolaev, lost to him. Following the trucks, Boris Gadasin (0:11:33) and Anastasia Nifontova (0:12:25) were finished on the prolon.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
“Finally, we are opening the summer season of 2025,” the pilot of the GAZ Raid Sport Alexei Ignatov team, who took second place in the Raid-Sport category, shared his impressions-the feeling that the Northern Forest was like last year, and not in February. Today is great weather, a great sunny day. We have four difficult days of the race and traditionally for Astrakhan a lot of mileage: two days 350 kilometers, plus one day – about 250 km. Combates are almost 1000 km, which is almost the format of the marathon. The rest of the Russian championship races do not have such a large mileage. It is important to maintain the equipment, find a pace that will overcome this entire distance without loss. This is not the first time here, there is already experience. There were successful performances, and not very … Therefore, taking into account the understanding of the specifics of this route, we will try to drive as quickly as possible, but at the same time so as to save the equipment and get to the finish line.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
In the regional competition in the Governor Cup rally-raids, the leading starting position went to the crew of Raisa Minnikhanov. A completely new sable of the Pikap of the Gorky Automobile Plant is involved in the amateur standings. The car, which is the head of the press service of the Gorky Automobile Plant Nikolai Markov.
– The first day: they started, remembered what it is in Astrakhan. We tried a new car – an all -wheel drive sable of the pickup, ”said Nikolai Markov – they were looking forward to this moment, and today they tested it in races. The car is just from the conveyor. I think she will bring us a lot of interesting things this season.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
In the evening of the same day, a traditional choice of starting positions took place. Trucks do not participate in this choice, as they start on the special stages first, but the first dozen SUVs and Baggi has passed the traditional procedure.
Thus, the first to start on April 18, after the T5 test, the crew of Boris Gadasin will be released. Andrei Rudskoy will go the second at a distance, and the crew of Andrei Novikov starts the third.
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev 
Alexander Zhikharev
In a motor skid, the motorist will be the first to go to the highway Yuri Kartashov and Leonid Nogin. The second, also at the motorcycle farm, will take the start of Alexei Berdinsky and Albert Arslanov. The third starts last year’s winner of Bach Gold Kagan in the “Motorly – Class 450” “Ilya Shcheglov.
In the menu on April 18, 352 kilometers of a special stue end, on which there are serious sands. Athletes will not be easy, since the track is complicated. In addition, Astrakhan is warm, and in the cabin of a sports car it is very hot. But the participants of the rally-raids are iron people, they can withstand everything! /m
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