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The most dangerous race in the world remain without Russians

Among the winners Dakar rally “Russians” will not. This can be said after the fifth phase, which took place in Morocco. The struggle at this stage of the race has completed its main favorites in the class of trucks, five times champion “Dakar” Vladimir Chagin KamAZ-Master of command “.”

Crew, trying to make up for lost time at a speed of over 100 kilometers per hour on Nukunonu Mount stones height of about 3 meters. Machines blew it to overturn several times and landed on the left side.

According Tchaguine, at the time he lost consciousness and does not remember the first few minutes after the accident.

Fortunately, the health of athletes as a whole does not cause concern. As reported in the press, OAO “KamAZ” with a reference to a member of the team of Vladimir Samoilova, a preliminary examination showed that Chagin generally unhurt, but received abrasions and bruises and perhaps light shaking brain. A mechanic Sergei Savostina, according to preliminary data, bruises spine moderate. French doctors have decided to evacuate it in Las Palmas. Vladimir Chagin will accompany him.

Earlier in the fourth phase of the current rally South African motorcyclist died Elmer Symons. This is the first death in the current rally. Since 1979, during the “Dakar” has already killed 54 people, including drivers, journalists and local residents.