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 | SA-Dakar Rally: Kamaz Nikolaev exclusion - "I´m feeling very unsatisfied".
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He wanted to win, but the Dakar 2012 was not the year for the Russian Kamaz-talent Eduard Nikolaev. After the 6th stage on Friday, the Russian was disqualified from the organisation due to "un-sportness". At the official website of Kamaz and the [ RED BULL DAKAR BLOG ] the Russian talked about the reasons.
By Eduard Nikolaev: "I’m feeling very unsatisfied because I’m here looking at my friends who are still driving in the race. I wish I was still able to participate because that is what I came here to do. We are here at Copiapo surrounded by all these magnificent dunes but I’ve been prevented from racing on them. I’m so sad that my race is over that I could cry.
It was the proudest moment of my life when I got the news that my team had trusted me to drive truck #500 at the Dakar Rally. This is the truck that Vladimir Chagin, the Tsar of the Desert, used to create history at this race. I was looking forward to carrying on that winning tradition. I was aspiring to make Vladimir and the rest of the team proud of my performance. Unfortunately none of that is possible now because my race has finished much sooner than I hoped it would.
The reason for my disqualification is a small accident we had with one of the cars out on a stage in the first week of the race. At the end of the stage the race organisers told us that we had not offered the necessary help to the guys in the car. The truth is that my crew of Sergey Savostin and Vladimir Rybakov and myself did everything we could to help the two guys in the car.
This was proved when the car’s driver Marcos Di Palma told the race organisers that we had done everything we could to help him and we only left the scene when we knew there had not been a serious injury. Even with this evidence my truck, my crew and myself have been disqualified from the race.
It’s such a disappointing way for my race to finish because the first week of this Dakar was so tough for the team. This disqualification is my lowest ever moment at the Dakar. Despite this unfortunate event the rest of team are now getting ready to really attack the second week of the race. I know the guys have all the ability they need to get Kamaz back to the top of the leaderboard. All I can do is start my preparations for next year’s Dakar a little earlier than expected."
2012/01/09 | 21:03 CET | ARTICLE: MR/SY/KAMAZ/REDBULL
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